UI graduate programs across a wide range of disciplines fared well in the 2004 rankings released April 1 by U.S.News & World Report. UI units ranked in the top 10 nationally include accounting (4), civil engineering (2), clinical psychology (8), computer engineering (5), elementary education (5), environmental engineering (2), materials science (3) and speech pathology (10).
The magazine annually re-ranks what its editors say are the five areas — business, education, engineering, law and medicine — that include the most popular choices for post-baccalaureate study.
Other disciplines are reviewed and ranked on different cycles, according to the magazine.
How other UI units (and specialties within units) fared in the rankings:
- Aeronautical and astronautical engineering (9)
- Audiology (20)
- Business information systems (24)
- Chemical engineering (9)
- College of Business (23)
- College of Engineering (4)
- College of Education (27)
- College of Law (27)
- Curriculum and instruction (7)
- Educational counseling (10)
- Educational administration (12)
- Educational policy studies (12)
- Educational psychology (5)
- Electrical engineering (4)
- Finance (23)
- Higher education administration (16)
- Industrial engineering (15)
- Marketing (25)
- Mechanical engineering (6)
- Secondary education (7)
- Social work (19)
- Special education (5)
- Vocational/technical education (6)
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