AUSTIN, Texas—The University of Texas at Austin’s schools of Business, Information and Law and its colleges of Education and Engineering each rank among the nation’s top graduate programs in this year’s U.S. News and World Report magazine survey.
Using quantitative and qualitative measures, the magazine annually ranks graduate school programs in business, education, engineering and law. Certain other Ph.D. programs and specialty programs are ranked in alternate years based on ratings of academic experts, including faculty and administrators. Not all fields are surveyed every year by U.S. News and World Report. This year, library and information studies and the sciences replaced pharmacy and the social sciences and humanities categories in the survey.
The University of Texas at Austin continues its solid position among graduate school programs across the country. Several Ph.D. and graduate programs were ranked among the nation’s top five in the magazine’s reputational survey.
The College of Engineering’s petroleum program ranks No. 1 in the nation, as does the School of Information’s archives program. Also in Engineering, the environmental/environmental health program is No. 2, while the civil engineering program is No. 4. In the McCombs School of Business, the accounting program is ranked No. 2, while its information systems program is No. 3. In the sciences, The University of Texas at Austin’s geology program is No. 5.
The magazine also listed, but did not rank, top education schools for teacher preparation and top law schools for diversity. The University of Texas at Austin was included in both lists.
The University of Texas at Austin’s graduate school rankings:
- Library and Information Studies (School of Information) — 7th
- Engineering — 13th
- Education — 15th, tied with the University of Oregon
- Law — 16th
- Business — 18th, tied with Emory University
Rankings of The University of Texas at Austin’s Ph.D. programs and fields of study:
- McCombs School of Business:
- accounting — 2nd, information systems — 3rd, entrepreneurship — 8th, marketing – 9th
- College of Education:
- special education — 8th, administration/supervision — 7th
- College of Engineering:
- petroleum — 1st, environmental/environmental health — 2nd, civil — 4th, chemical — 7th, aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical — 7th, computer engineering — 8th, mechanical — 10th, electrical/electronic/communications — 10th
- The Sciences:
- Biological sciences — 24th
- ecology/evolutionary biology — 8th
- Chemistry — 9th
- analytical — 7th
- organic — 10th
- theoretical – 10th
- Computer science — 9th
- artificial intelligence — 6th
- systems — 8th
- Earth sciences — 9th
- geology — 5th
- geophysics and seismology — 8th
- paleontology — 9th
- Mathematics — 15th
- applied math —8th
- topology — 8th
- Physics — 11th
- atomic/molecular/optical — 10th
- cosmology/relativity/gravity — 10th
- plasma — 7th
- Biological sciences — 24th
- Library and Information Studies:
- archives and preservation — 1st
- law librarianship — 3rd
