U.S. News & World Report Rankings

Undergraduate Programs (Fall 2007)

41st among 262 national universities

22nd in "Best Values" ranking

Program Rankings:
- Biomedical Engineering (7th)
- Management (33rd)
- Engineering (37th)

Graduate and Professional Programs

Engineering: 49th among 192 graduate PhD-granting programs (2008)
- Biomedical Engineering (9th)
- Aerospace Engineering (33rd)
- Materials Science (22nd)
- Mechanical Engineering (31st)

Law: 63rd among 184 accredited law schools (2008)
- Health Law (4th)
- International Law (16th)

Management: 59th among 406 accredited MBA programs (2007)
- Non-Profit Management (7th)
- Management Information Systems (20th)

Medicine: 23rd among 145 accredited medical schools (2008)
- Family Medicine (13th)
- Pediatrics (13th)

Nursing: 15th among more than 400 accredited master's programs (2008)
- Gerontological Nursing (4th)
- Nurse Anesthesia (11th)
- Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (13th)
- Family Nurse Practitioner (16th)
- Nurse Midwifery (21st)

Social Work: 10th among more than 175 accredited master's programs (2008)

12th among private institutions (24th among all) in federal expenditures for science and engineering research and development (NSF/FY 2006)

12th among U.S. medical schools in awards from NIH (FY 2005)
- Nutrition (1st)
- Other Basic Sciences (1st) - (includes Department of
Molecular Medicine and Center for RNA Molecular Biology)
- Family Medicine (7th)
- Biomedical Engineering (8th)
- Orthopaedics (8th)
- Physiology and Biophysics (8th)
- Public Health (8th)
- Dermatology (10th)

Top

42nd in Washington Monthly College Guide (2007)

32nd in U.S. and 85th in world (The Times Higher Education Supplement (London) 2007)

Among the Top 25 private research universities (The Center for Measuring University Performance, 2007)

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Revised April 2008