UCD’s Graduate
Programs Rank
Among Nation’s Best
The 2006 U.S. News & World Report’s annual publication
ranking graduate schools throughout the United States has ranked several programs
at the University of Colorado Denver among the
best in the country.
This year’s medical rankings count the CU School of Medicine at 11th
among primary care schools and 30th among the nation’s research schools.
The CU School of Medicine also ranked in several medical specialties including
8th in pediatrics, 11th in family medicine, 13th in the AIDS specialty, 14th
in the drug and alcohol abuse specialty, and 23rd in internal medicine.
“We are pleased to be recognized for these programs,” said Dr.
Richard Krugman, dean of the CU School of Medicine. “We are proud of
the many other programs at the CU School of Medicine that may not have made
the list this year, but are none the less outstanding programs as well, thanks
to our top-rate faculty."
Most health disciplines were not newly ranked this year with the exception
of pharmacy, which was ranked for the first time in the 2006 edition of the
U.S. News & World Report guidebook to graduate schools. CU School of Pharmacy’s
PharmD program ranked 23rd in the nation.
“We are delighted the PharmD program has achieved national recognition
in such a short period of time,” said Louis Diamond, PhD, dean of the
CU School of Pharmacy. “We graduated our first PharmD class less than
two years ago. Virtually all of the schools that were ranked above CU by U.S.
News have well established PharmD programs, many of which have been in place
for 20 years or more.”
Also newly ranked this year was the UCD downtown campus’s graduate
program in education. The education program ranked 90th nationwide for the
first time.
Health disciplines which were not newly ranked this year include clinical
psychology, community health, health services administration, nursing, occupational
therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant, public health, and rehabilitation
counseling. In the 2004 edition, when nursing was last ranked, the CU School
of Nursing ranked 15th in the nation for its masters degree programs.
The CU School of Nursing also ranked 1st in the pediatric nursing specialty,
6th for both the nursing service administration specialty and family specialty,
and 10th for the gerontological/geriatric specialty. In other programs, the
community/public health for clinical nurse specialists ranked 7th, and the
nursing/midwifery master’s program ranked 10th.
All rankings will be available April 1 on the magazine’s Web site,
www.usnews.com,
and will appear in the weekly newsmagazine’s April 11 edition of “America’s
Best Graduate Schools,” as well as in the 2006 U.S. News & World
Report guidebook to graduate schools, which will be available Monday.
The rankings were determined by surveys of deans, program directors and senior
faculty of accredited graduate programs and based on scholarship, curriculum
and the quality of the program’s faculty and graduates.
Other factors considered in the medical school rankings included academic
reputation, research activity, and the percentage of students entering internal
medicine, family practice and pediatrics, academic performance of students,
the ratio of full-time faculty to full-time students, and graduates’
achievements linked to their degrees.
This year, the total dollar amount of research grants awarded per full-time
science and clinical faculty member from the National Institutes of Health
to the medical school were also factored into the computation.
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