The chemical engineering graduate program is ranked 10th in the nation, tied with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology program was at the top of the list, followed by the California Institute of Technology, the University of Minnesota, the University of California Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin, Stanford University, Princeton University, the University of Texas, the University of California Santa Barbara, UD and Illinois.
In other graduate rankings in the book, some of which are included in the magazine, the School of Education is ranked 35th in the nation, the College of Engineering is ranked 47th and the School of Nursing is ranked 72nd.
"The University community should be pleased by this national recognition of the quality of the graduate programs in education, engineering and nursing,” UD Provost Dan Rich said. “Although the annual survey includes a narrow range of fields, the University of Delaware offers a wide array graduate programs that are recognized to be among the best in their fields."
The College of Engineering is tied with Dartmouth College and Rutgers University, and stands just behind Case Western Reserve University and Iowa State University. The top four colleges of engineering are MIT, Stanford, the University of California Berkeley and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The School of Education, which is in UD's College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy (CHEP), is tied in the rankings with Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh. It is rated just behind Texas A&M University.
The top five schools of education are Columbia University, Stanford, Harvard, Vanderbilt University and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
UD also was ranked among the top 50 for teacher preparation among the nation's top schools of education.
The School of Nursing, which is in the College of Health Sciences, was ranked 72nd. Other schools sharing that ranking include Rutgers, Georgia State University and the University of Tennessee.
Article by Neil Thomas
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