Magazine releases graduate school rankings
April 22, 2009
The U.S. News & World Report released rankings for the top graduate programs in the country Thursday. Several ISU departments made the rankings. According to the magazine, it analyzes over 12,000 universities to make its rankings.
Overall ranking/ranking among public universities
Biological/Agricultural Engineering — 3, 2
Statistics — 5, 3
Analytical Chemistry — 12, 12
Higher Education Administration — 13, 7
Inorganic Chemistry — 18, 10
Student Counseling and Personnel Services — 18, 16
Materials Engineering — 25, 15
Schools of Engineering — 42, 24
Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering — 26, 18
Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering — 27, 19
Chemical Engineering — 31, 21
Chemistry — 36, 21
Civil Engineering — 34, 21
Mechanical Engineering — 36, 22
Computer Engineering — 39, 23
Electrical/Electronic/Communications Engineering — 41, 25
Physics — 48, 29
Other Majors: (Overall ranking only)
Economics — 54
Computer Science — 61
Math — 64
Biological Sciences — 68
Psychology — 74
English — 94
Education — 96
— Information from the ISU News Service