Two University of Colorado at Boulder graduate school specialty programs were ranked in the top 10 in the nation and a third in the top 20 in the annual U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings released today.
The magazine's annual graduate school issue ranks roughly 10 graduate disciplines each year and ranks more than a dozen other graduate programs on a sporadic basis. U.S. News also ranks a number of specialty programs within particular disciplines.
This year the magazine ranked business, education, engineering, law, medicine, fine arts and selected health fields, but did not rank the sciences, social sciences, humanities or public affairs disciplines.
The environmental law specialty program at CU-Boulder was tied for sixth with George Washington University. Overall, the CU Law School was tied for 40th with George Mason University and the University of Connecticut.
The ceramics specialty program at CU-Boulder was ranked ninth in the nation in schools offering Masters of Fine Arts degrees.
In business rankings, CU-Boulder's entrepreneurship specialty program at CU-Boulder's Leeds School of Business ranked 18th.
In addition, CU-Boulder's School of Education was ranked 33rd in the nation and the College of Engineering and Applied Science was ranked 37th.