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The University of Iowa's strategic plan includes an aspiration to be among the Top 10 public universities. With that in mind, we took the University of Iowa programs ranked in the latest U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings and looked at how they compare with those at other public institutions. The results are below.

How do our graduate programs compare with those at other public institutions?
#1 Audiology — Masters, Ph.D.
#1 Creative Writing
#1 Nurse Practitioner — Gerontological/Geriatrics
#1 Nursing Service Administration — Masters
#1 Physicians Assistant Program — Masters
#1 Speech-Language Pathology — Masters
#2 Printmaking
#2 Social Psychology ( Department of Sociology)
#3 Physical Therapy — Master's and Ph.D. (Carver College of Medicine)
#3 Rural Medicine (Carver College of Medicine)
#4 Rehabilitation Counseling — Master's and Ph.D. (College of Education)
#5 Nursing — Anesthesia Master's Program (College of Nursing)
#5 Paleontology — Ph.D. (Department of Geology)
#6 Nurse Practitioner/Pediatrics
#7 Art and Design — MFA Programs
#7 College of Law
#7 Painting and Drawing
#7 Plasma Physics (Department of Physics and Astronomy)
#7 Primary Care (Carver College of Medicine)
#8 Clinical Psychology — Ph.D. program
#9 College of Nursing — Master's Program
#9 Environmental Engineering (College of Engineering)
#10 Counseling/Personnel Services (College of Education)
#10 Higher Education Administration (College of Education)
#11 College of Public Health
#11 Nurse Practioner — Family (College of Nursing)
#12 Healthcare Management — Master's Program (College of Public Health)
#12 Political Science (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
#13 Accounting (Tippie College of Business)
#14 Carver College of Medicine — Research
#15 English — Ph.D. program
#15 Family Medicine (Carver College of Medicine)
#15 Pharmacy — Pharm.D. Program
#16 Economics — Ph.D. program
#17 History — Ph.D. program
#20 Biomedical/Bioengineering (College of Engineering)
#20 Psycholology—Research Ph.D. (Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, College of Education)
#20 Sociology — Ph.D. program
#21 College of Education
#23 Biological Sciences (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
#23 Tippie College of Business
#24 Internal Medicine (Carver College of Medicine)
#25 Psychology—Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
#29 Civil Engineering
#29 Library and Information Studies — Ph.D. program (Graduate College)
#31 Social Work—Master's Program
#32 Mathematics
#32 Mechanical Engineering
#33 Computer Engineering
#34 Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering
#35 College of Engineering
#35 Physics — Ph.D. (College of Engineering)
#37 Computer Science — Ph.D. program (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
#39 Chemistry — Ph.D. program (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
#39 Electrical Engineering (College of Engineering)
#47 Earth Sciences — Ph.D. program (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Updated April 2008
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