U.S. News & World Report Rankings

Undergraduate Programs (Fall 2009)

41st among 262 national universities

28th in "Best Values" ranking

Program Rankings:
- Biomedical Engineering (9th)
- Management (31st)
- Engineering (45th)

Graduate and Professional Programs

Engineering: 46th among 198 graduate PhD-granting programs (2009)
- Biomedical Engineering (12th)
- Aerospace Engineering (30th)
- Materials Science (25th)
- Mechanical Engineering (36th)

Law: 55th among 184 accredited law schools (2009)
- Health Law (5th)

Management: 59th among 406 accredited MBA programs (2007)
- Non-Profit Management (7th)

Medicine: 25th among 146 accredited medical schools (2009)
- Family Medicine (9th)
- Pediatrics (12th)
- AIDS (13th)

Nursing: 15th among more than 400 accredited master's programs (2007)
- Gerontological Nursing (4th)
- Nurse Anesthesia (11th)
- Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (13th)
- Family Nurse Practitioner (16th)
- Nurse Midwifery (21st)

Social Work: 10th among more than 175 accredited master's program (2007)

13th among private institutions (26th among all) in federal expenditures for science and engineering research and development (NSF/FY 2008)

17th among U.S. medical schools in awards from NIH (FY 2008)
- Nutrition (1st)
- Other Basic Sciences (1st) - (includes Department of
Molecular Medicine and Center for RNA Molecular Biology)
- Pediatrics (3rd)
- Orthopaedics (6th)
- Dermatology (7th)
- Family Medicine (12th)
- Public Health (12th)
- Biomedical Engineering (14th)
- Urology (14th)

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Among the Top 25 private research universities (The Center for Measuring University Performance, 2008)

38th in U.S. and 119th in world (The Times Higher Education Supplement (London) 2009)

15th in Washington Monthly College Guide (2009)

Top 10 “best neighbor” university by “Saviors of Our Cities: A Survey of Best Neighbor College and University Civic Partnerships.” Survey results, published in fall 2009,

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Revised November 2009