Ohio State Ranked Among Best Grad Schools By U.S. News

COLUMBUS, OH — The latest U.S. News & World Report rankings for best graduate schools in the country has been released, with Ohio State University ranked among the top 50 the list in six of the six major fields identified by the news outlet.

The Ohio State is ranked 33rd in business, 40th in law, 33rd in medicine, 9th in nursing, 30th in engineering and 28th in education, according to the 2022 U.S. News list released Tuesday.

In other ranked fields, University of Cincinnati ranked 4th in criminology, while Ohio State ranked 17th in political sciences, 13th in public affairs, and 18th in sociology.

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.

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