By Donna Kettenbach
April 6, 2001
Washington University School of Medicine tied for fourth overall and ranked first in student selectivity, according to this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate and professional programs.
The medical school also ranked third in the nation in occupational therapy, fifth in internal medicine, seventh for pediatrics, and tied for 10th in both women's health and drug/alcohol abuse categories.
The School of Law jumped two places to a tie for No. 27, as did the political science program in the College of Arts & Sciences, moving up to an 18th-place tie. The Olin School of Business' MBA program, tied with Vanderbilt University and the University of Rochester at 26, is in the top tier of the nation's 325 accredited MBA programs. The Henry Edwin Sever School of Engineering and Applied Science moved up three places to tie for 37th. Arts & Sciences' clinical psychology program tied for 19th, while its psychology program tied for 39th.
This is the fourth consecutive year the medical school has been ranked No. 1 in student selectivity. It has placed in the top 10 ever since U.S. News began ranking medical schools in 1987.
"We are certainly pleased to again be recognized as one of the top medical schools," said William A. Peck, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the medical school. "We are especially proud of our continued success in attracting an entering class of students who are so highly qualified for the study of medicine."
The medical school tied with University of Pennsylvania after Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Duke universities.
"I am pleased that the School of Law has continued to progress, rising from 32nd to 27th during the past two years, our highest ranking ever," said Joel Seligman, J.D.,
dean of the law school and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor. "What matters also are factors that are not well-captured in U.S. News --the quality of our teaching of students, the accessibility of our faculty, and the sense of being an academic and student-centered community."
Christopher I. Byrnes, the first Edward H. and Florence G. Skinner Professor in Systems Science and dean of the school of engineering, said, "While it is very heartening to move up in these rankings, we are more excited about the new initiatives that we've launched and the impact they will have on the quality of education and research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University. The credit for these initiatives and the way they reflect on our reputation should really go to the entire School of Engineering family: our alumni, faculty, friends, parents, staff and students."
Although U.S. News did not gather new data this year for every graduate program, it republishes rankings in several categories in which Washington University ranked highly. The George Warren Brown School of Social Work reappears as the No. 2 social work program in the country. The School of Medicine's physical therapy program kept sole possession of first place, and its health services administration program remained in a tie at 12. Arts & Sciences' audiology program, in cooperation with the Central Institute for the Deaf, continued in a sixth-place tie.
The University's rankings can be viewed at:
http://news-info.wustl.edu/rankings/gradranking.html
or on U.S. News' Web site,
http://www.usnews.com.
Annual rankings are based on varying criteria, including reputation, research
activity, student selectivity, faculty resources, and surveys of deans, faculty
and administrators. For information on the magazine's ranking methodology, visit
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/gradrank/gbrank.htm.
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