The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill appears on multiple lists of schools, degree programs and specialty areas newly ranked in 2012 by U.S. News and World Report for the 2013 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” Following are the new UNC rankings and specialty listings that are currently available from the magazine:
School of Medicine
Overall - Primary care, 2nd
- Research, tied for 21st
Specialty areas - Family medicine, 2nd
- Rural medicine, 6th
- AIDS, tied for 11th
- Internal medicine, tied for 22nd
Health disciplines
The doctorate program in clinical psychology is based in the College of Arts and Sciences; the other programs offering master’s and doctorate degrees are based in the School of Medicine: - Clinical psychology, tied for 2nd
- Audiology, tied for 3rd
- Physical therapy, tied for 9th
- Occupational therapy, tied for 10th
- Speech-language pathology, tied for 11th
Eshelman School of Pharmacy School of Social Work - Master’s program, tied for 5th
Gillings School of Public Health
- Environmental/environmental health, tied for 12th
(Note: Although UNC has no engineering school, the department of environmental sciences and engineering is based in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and perennially appears on this list of top engineering programs.)
Kenan-Flagler Business School
Overall - tied for 19th (master of business administration degree programs)
Specialty Areas - Accounting, 10th
- Executive MBA, 11th
- Marketing, 12th
- Management, 17th
- Production/operations, 17th
- Entrepreneurship, tied for 25th
- Supply chair/logistics, tied for 25th
Public affairs
UNC has master’s degree programs and specialty areas within several units based in the School of Government, the College of Arts and Sciences and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health that are ranked by U.S. News as part of a public affairs category. UNC’s listings follow:
Overall Specialty Areas - City management and urban policy, 6th
- Environmental policy and management, 12th
- Health policy and management, tied for 14th
- Public policy analysis program, tied for 20th
- Public management administration, 25th
School of Education
Overall Specialty Areas - Special education, 12th
- Education administration and supervision, 13th
- Student counseling and personnel services, tied for13th
- Curriculum and instruction, 16th
- Secondary teacher education, tied for 17th
- Educational psychology, tied for 19th
School of Law
Overall Specialty Areas - Health-care law, tied for 17th
Complete rankings information will be posted at www.usnews.com/grad starting at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, March 13. Rankings highlights will be published in the 2013 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” by U.S. News Media Group available on newsstands starting April 3.
Note: In past years, numerous UNC-Chapel Hill specialty areas have been ranked in the top 25. This year, information available from the magazine in advance generally goes through the top 10 to 12 spots in the rankings. This advisory will be updated online on the News Services Web site, www.unc.edu/news/ as any new information becomes available starting on March 13.
Methodology: U.S. News first ranked graduate program in 1987 and has done so annually since 1990. Business, education, engineering, law and medicine are ranked annually based on expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research and students, according to U.S. News officials. Other disciplines and specialties in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and other areas, including selected health specialties, are ranked periodically. Those rankings are based solely on the ratings of peer academic experts, including deans, program directors and faculty.
In addition to the new rankings, U.S. News republishes, on its website and in the guidebook, older rankings – dated 2011 or before – that are based on peer ratings in various health fields, Ph.D. programs in the humanities and social sciences, master's of public affairs and public policy, master's of fine arts, and master's of library and information studies programs.
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