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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 — Master's, Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#1

Creative Writing (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#1

Nurse Practitioner — Gerontological/Geriatrics (College of Nursing)

#1

Nursing Service Administration — Master's (College of Nursing)

#1

Physicians Assistant Program — Master's (Carver College of Medicine)

#1

Speech-Language Pathology — Master's (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#2

Printmaking (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#2

Social Psychology (Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#3

Physical Therapy — Master's and Ph.D. (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 (College of Nursing)

#7

Art and Design — MFA (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#7

Painting and Drawing (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#7

Plasma Physics — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#8

Clinical Psychology — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#9

College of Law

#9

College of Nursing — Master's Program (College of Nursing)

#9

Higher Education Administration (College of Education)

#10

Rural Medicine (Carver College of Medicine)

#10

Primary Care (Carver College of Medicine)

#11

Environmental Engineering (College of Engineering)

#11

College of Public Health

#11

Nurse Practitioner — Family (College of Nursing)

#11

Accounting (Tippie College of Business)

#12

Counseling/Personnel Services (College of Education)

#12

Healthcare Management — Master's Program (College of Public Health)

#14

Carver College of Medicine — Research

#15

English — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#15

Pharmacy — Pharm.D. (College of Pharmacy)

#15

Economics — Ph.D. (Tippie College of Business)

#15

Psychology — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#16

Educational Psychology (College of Education)

#17

Political Science (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#17

Secondary Education (College of Education)

#18

Curriculum and Instruction (College of Education)

#18

History — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#20

Psychology — Research Ph.D. (Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, College of Education)

#22

Biomedical/Bioengineering (College of Engineering)

#22

Sociology — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#22

College of Education

#22

Tippie College of Business

#23

Biological Sciences (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#23

Library and Information Studies — Master's (Graduate College)

#27

Civil Engineering (College of Engineering)

#28

Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)

#29

Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering (College of Engineering)

#30

College of Engineering

#32

Mathematics — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#33

Computer Engineering (College of Engineering)

#35

Physics — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#37

Computer Science — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#38

Social Work — Master's Program (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#39

Chemical Engineering (College of Engineering)

#39

Chemistry — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

#40

Electrical Engineering (College of Engineering)

#47

Earth Sciences — Ph.D. (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)

Updated April 2009
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