UC ranks high in new national survey


The University of California has some of the nation's top graduate schools in fields such as business, law and medicine, according to a new survey by U.S. News & World Report.

UC campuses had five No. 1-ranked programs -- chemistry (UC Berkeley), clinical psychology (UCLA), computer science (UC Berkeley), English (UC Berkeley) and pharmacy (UC San Francisco) -- in the magazine's annual edition of America's best graduate schools, which hit newsstands March 31.

Overall, nine UC campuses received rankings, with more than 40 programs ranked in the top 10.

To view the U.S. News graduate school rankings online, visit: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad

Additional links:

UC Berkeley business school release: www.haas.berkeley.edu/groups/newspubs/haasnews/archives/hn033108.html#story2

UC Berkeley engineering school release: http://coe.berkeley.edu/about/rankings.html#grad09

UCLA School of Medicine release: www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/david-geffen-school-of-medicine-47686.aspx

UC San Diego release: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/03-08UCSDReceiveHighRanks.asp#

Scripps release: http://sio.ucsd.edu/Announcements/2009_USNews

UC San Francisco release: http://pub.ucsf.edu/newsservices/releases/200804011/