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Media Contacts:
Denine Hagen, (858) 534-2920 or Leslie Franz, (619) 543-6163 The Jacobs School was ranked 11th in the nation and 7th among public engineering schools. The School of Medicine was ranked 16th in the nation among medical schools with a research focus and 5th among public schools with that focus. The medical school also ranked 6th in the nation for primary care. UCSD’s engineering and medical schools are the youngest institutions counted among the nation’s best. For the first time, US News rankings include Master of Fine Arts programs. UCSD's programs in multimedia/visual communications were ranked 6th in the nation, reflecting the university's growing strength in the arts. The rankings appear in the 2004 America’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook and in the April 14 edition of the U.S. News & World Report weekly magazine, both of which will be available on newsstands April 7. The survey results also appear on-line at www.usnews.com. The Jacobs School was also selected as the only engineering school in the nation to be featured in the photo layout of the U.S. News guidebook. From large-scale earthquake engineering testing, to students surfing at La Jolla Shores, the photos depict the unique flavor of graduate student life at UCSD. UCSD School of Medicine’s 16th ranking this year represents a move up from 20th in last year's ranking. UCSD's AIDS program ranks 8th and the Drug and Alcohol Abuse program is 7th. "We are committed to training the physicians and scientists who will be our future health care leaders, and who will also work to improve the diagnosis and treatment of disease through research," said Edward W. Holmes, M.D., vice chancellor for health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine. "To have such strong rankings that continue to climb is a gratifying endorsement that we are achieving this double goal. This recognition is consistent with other recent surveys that rank the medical faculty as 1st in the nation in research funding per faculty member, and 2nd in the nation in clinical research impact.” The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering continued its upward trajectory in the rankings, moving to 11th place this year from 14th in 2002. Since the U.S. News comprehensive rankings of graduate programs began in 1990, the School has moved up 27 slots, making it the youngest and fastest rising engineering school in the country. With $130 million in annual research expenditures, the Jacobs School ranks 2nd in the nation for research expenditures per faculty member. The Jacobs School’s Department of Bioengineering ranked 4th in this year’s survey. “It is wonderful to be recognized for the excellent quality of our faculty, students, and programs. The ranking is another indication of the Jacobs School’s national leadership in engineering education and research, and it will enhance our ability to attract the best and brightest students to San Diego,” said Frieder Seible, Dean of the Jacobs School. The current U.S. News & World Report survey includes rankings from past years for graduate programs in the biological, physical, and social sciences. In those repeat rankings, UCSD ranked 14th in the biological sciences. Other highly ranked science programs included physics (16), mathematics (21), chemistry (22), and applied mathematics (31). Within the Division of Social Sciences, the graduate program in political science was ranked 7th in the nation. Specialty programs in the department also were rated high, including comparative politics (2), American politics (6), international politics (9) and political theory (16). Other specialty programs ranked among the best in the survey include sociology of culture (4), cognitive psychology (7), Latin American history (8), microeconomics (15), economics (17), and psychology (17). In the area of geology, UCSD was ranked 11th in the nation and 6th in the specialty of geophysics. The magazine's rankings of graduate
schools and programs are based on surveys among deans and faculty members
in specific fields who judged each institution's reputation; surveys from
professionals in the field outside of academe; and objective criteria,
such as research activity, faculty resources and an institution's student
selectivity. The magazine's rankings for engineering, medicine, health
disciplines, and the arts were based on new surveys conducted in 2002;
the sciences rankings were derived from a 2001 survey; and the social
sciences rankings were based on a 2000 survey.
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