High marks continue for UD programs

Recent national reviews have given high ratings to a variety of programs at the University, which has been included in such listings as best graduate schools, best undergraduate business schools and most productive faculty scholarship.

In graduate studies, UD programs remain among the nation’s elite, according to new rankings published in the U.S. News & World Report newsstand book America’s Best Graduate Schools.

The chemical engineering graduate program is ranked 10th in the nation, tied with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In other graduate rankings in the book, some of which also are included in the magazine, the School of Education is ranked 35th in the nation, the College of Engineering 47th and the School of Nursing 72nd.

“Although the annual survey includes a narrow range of fields, the University of Delaware offers a wide array of graduate programs that are recognized to be among the best in their fields,” UD Provost Dan Rich says.

The College of Engineering is tied with Dartmouth College and Rutgers University, and the School of Nursing shares its ranking with Rutgers, Georgia State University and the University of Tennessee. The School of Education is tied in the rankings with Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh, and UD also was ranked among the top 50 for teacher preparation among the nation’s top schools of education.

In a look at undergraduate business schools, the second annual BusinessWeek review ranked the Lerner College of Business and Economics 29th among the nation’s top 58 public university programs and 61st among the 500 schools earning international accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

“I am especially pleased that Lerner College was cited for its available faculty and a curriculum that stresses real-world experience and teamwork,” Dean Conrado “Bobby” Gempesaw says.

BusinessWeek used several criteria in ranking the schools. According to the magazine, the “centerpiece” of the ranking was a survey of about 77,000 graduating seniors at the 123 eligible programs.