Rankings of WUSTL by News Media

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U.S.News & World Report
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS – NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES
The most recent undergraduate rankings were announced by U.S. News on August 18, 2006, for the 2006-07 academic year.
U.S. News Undergraduate Categories 2006-07 2005-06
Overall Undergraduate Programs 12* 11
Alumni giving 10* 9*
Economic diversity 25 25
Faculty resources 6 5
Financial resources 4 4
Graduation & retention 17* 17*
Selectivity 6* 6*
Best Value 18 20
Olin School of Business 13* 12*
School of Engineering & Applied Science 39* 41*
* – tie
U.S.News & World Report
GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS
This is a compilation of all U.S. News graduate and professional rankings of Washington University programs, based on information from the 2007 Guidebook and additional Web-based rankings at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
U.S. News Graduate & Professional Categories Ranking Year Last Ranked
Graduate School of Art 21* 2003
Sculpture 13* 2003
Arts & Sciences
Audiology (in cooperation with CID) 8* 2004
American Politics 14 2005
Biological Sciences 9* 2006
Chemistry 42* 2006
Clinical Psychology 32* 2004
Cognitive Psychology 11 2005
Creative Writing 10* 1997
Earth Sciences 25* 2006
Economics 36* 2005
Education 46* 2006
English 39* 2005
Geochemistry 13* 2006
Geophysics and Seismology 19* 2006
History 39* 2005
Mathematics 38* 2006
Mathematics analysis 18* 2006
Music 60* 2000
Physics 45* 2006
Political Methodology 9 2005
Political Science 16* 2005
Psychology 36* 2005
George Warren Brown School of Social Work 2 2004
School of Engineering and Applied Science 33* 2006
Applied Mathematics 47 2002
Biomedical Engineering 14* 2006
Chemical Engineering 32* 2006
Civil Engineering 44* 2006
Computer Engineering 39* 2006
Computer Science 40* 2006
Electrical/Electronic/Communications 38* 2006
Environmental/Environmental Health 37* 2006
Mechanical Engineering 47* 2006
School of Law 19* 2006
Clinical Training 4 2006
Healthcare law 16* 2006
Intellectual Property Law 27 2006
International Law 18 2006
Trial advocacy 7* 2006
School of Medicine (comprehensive ranking) 4* 2006
AIDS 19* 2005
Biochemistry 17 2006
Cell Biology 9 2006
Drug/Alcohol Abuse 10 2006
Genetics/Genomics/Bioinformatics 6* 2006
Geriatrics 15* 2004
Health Services Administration 16* 2003
Immunology/Infectious Diseases 5* 2006
Internal Medicine 7 2006
Microbiology 6 2006
Molecular Biology 8* 2006
Occupational Therapy 3 2004
Pediatrics 6 2006
Pharmacology/Toxicology 8* 1999
Physical Therapy 2 2004
Primary Care 52* 2006
Women’s Health 10* 2006
Olin School of Business MBA 26* 2006
Finance 21* 2006
Management 24 2005
Olin Executive MBA (EMBA) 15 2006
Olin School Part-time MBA 14 2006
* – tie
The Atlantic Monthly
Ranking Year
Overall undergraduate program 11 2003-04
Faculty research productivity (worldwide) 14 2006

The Times UK

Ranking Year
Top 200 World Universities 58 2005

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Ranking Year
Black enrollment – nation’s top 50 universities 7 2003-04
Integrating African-American undergraduates 4 2002-03
Comparative graduation rates of blacks and whites 1 2002-03
Five-year progress in black faculty appointments 1 2002-03

Cosmo Girl

Ranking Year
50 Best Colleges Top 50 2005

Newsweek/Kaplan

Ranking Year
“New Ivies” Top 25 2006

Newsweek Magazine

Ranking Year
Top 100 Global Universities – International list 33 2006
Top 100 Global Universities – US-only list 23 2006

Black Enterprise

Ranking Year
Top 50 Colleges for African Americans 42 2006

Reform Judaism

Ranking Year
Private universities most chosen by Jewish students 14 2006

Rolling Stone

Ranking Year
Schools that Rock (ranks both WUSTL and St. Louis) 6 2005

Seventeen Magazine

Ranking Year
“The 50 Coolest Colleges” (undergraduate only) 7 2002-03

Key:

* – tie

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Last update: September 22, 2006