CU Boulder Ranked Among Best Grad Schools By U.S. News

BOULDER, CO — The latest U.S. News & World Report rankings for best graduate schools in the country has been released, with the University of Colorado Boulder ranked among the top in nine major fields identified by the news outlet.

CU Boulder is ranked 26th in Engineering, 34th in Education, 34th in Sociology, 43rd in History, 46th in Economics, 46th in English, 46th in Political Science, 48th in Law and 74th in Business, according to the 2022 U.S. News list released Tuesday.

U.S. News based their rankings on expert opinions and statistics that measure the quality of the school’s faculty, research and students, it said in a news release.

Stanford University in California took the top spot with the best business school, followed by the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School at No. 2 and the University of Chicago’s Booth School at No. 3.

Yale University in Connecticut remains the top law school in the rankings. Stanford and Harvard University followed Yale as the top law schools on the list.

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Harvard stayed atop the best medical schools for research category, followed by New York University’s Grossman School and Duke University. NYU and Duke both moved into the top three from last year’s rankings.

The University of Pennsylvania tied Harvard for the top spot in education programs, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology No. 1 in engineering and Johns Hopkins University No. 1 in nursing.

Statistical surveys were sent to more than 23,000 academic professionals in the fall of 2020 and early 2021 to find the statistical portion of the methodology.