03-13-95 U.S. News Ranks Graduate Programs

OHIO STATE GRADUATE PROGRAMS RANK HIGH IN U.S. NEWS SURVEY

     COLUMBUS -- Ohio State University graduate programs fared
well in survey results announced Thursday (3/9) by U.S. News &
World Report magazine.  This sixth annual survey of graduate
programs will be published in the March 20 edition of the
magazine.  In a fuller version, it will appear on newsstands
March 27 as a book, U.S. News & World Report's America's Best
Graduate Schools.

     Ohio State's College of Education ranked ninth among 223 in
the nation which offer doctoral degrees.  Further, the college
was in the top five in the country in six specialty areas:
administration, counseling/personnel, curriculum and instruction,
elementary education, secondary education, and
vocational/technical education.  The Ohio State program in
vocational/technical education was ranked best in the United
States.  The college was ranked third in the nation in "research
activity."

     "What this study reveals is the comprehensive quality of the
College of Education," said Dean Nancy Zimpher.  "That we are
ranked so highly in so many areas shows the breadth and depth of
our faculty.  There is no question we offer a superb range of
programming to teachers, administrators and educators in related
professions.  Our commitment to the life of schools is
significant.  And as a complement to our teaching focus, we place
a premium on research excellence, as this study clearly shows.
There is no better example than this of Ohio State's commitment
to top quality teaching and research working hand in hand."

     Also highly rated were graduate programs in nursing,
business, engineering, law and liberal arts.

     Ohio State's master's degree program in nursing was rated
14th among 214; the J.D. program in law finished 38th among 177;
the graduate program in engineering ranked 18th of 219.

     The Max M. Fisher College of Business was named 25th best
among the 281 accredited M.B.A. programs in America, and its
program in real estate was rated fifth best nationally.

     The magazine this year, for the first time, included
rankings of Ph.D. programs in six liberal arts disciplines.  Ohio
State's programs in political science, psychology and sociology
were given top-level marks.  Political science placed 17th among
100 programs, psychology 24th among 210, and sociology 25th among
104.

     Rankings were determined by using different criteria in each
category.  Frequently used criteria included:

     Student selectivity as measured by graduate entrance test
scores, undergraduate grade point averages and percentage of
applicants accepted;

     Faculty resources, including faculty to student ratios and
percentage of fulltime faculty holding Ph.Ds.;

     Placement success calculated on percentage of graduates
employed within a few months of graduation and median salaries;

     Research activity, based on the amount of funding received
for research and the number of faculty involved in research;

     Reputation as determined by surveys of deans and other top
faculty at similar schools, as well as practitioners and
employers in the field.
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Contact: Malcolm Baroway, executive director of University
Communications, (614) 292-6895, or Ruth Gerstner, director of
news services (614) 292-8424.


[Submitted by: Von Reid-Vargas (ereid@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
               
Tue, 14 Mar 1995 10:52:32 -0500]
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