By Alec Rosenberg
University of California Health ranked highly in U.S. News & World Report’s yearly survey of the nation’s best graduate schools.
All five UC medical schools placed in the top 50 nationally for research rankings. UC San Francisco was the top-ranked public school and fourth among all U.S. schools, with UCLA 11 overall, UC San Diego 16 and UC Davis and UC Irvine tied at 47. Among the top primary care programs at medical schools, UCSF ranked No. 5, UCLA 14, UC Davis 20, UC San Diego 28 and UC Irvine 83.
UC medical schools also received high marks in a number of specialty programs. UCSF ranked first in AIDS and drug/alcohol abuse, second in women’s health, third in internal medicine, sixth in family medicine, seventh in pediatrics, and tenth in geriatrics. UCLA ranked third in geriatrics and sixth in AIDS and drug/alcohol abuse. UC San Diego ranked eighth in drug/alcohol abuse and tenth in AIDS.
The 2011 America’s Best Graduate Schools rankings, released online today (April 15), will be published in a guidebook available on newsstands April 20 and featured in the May issue of U.S. News magazine on newsstands starting April 27.
The new rankings include previous assessments of a number of other health fields, which U.S. News also surveys but not each year. In programs assessed in 2008, UC had the top-ranked programs in pharmacy (UCSF) and clinical psychology (UCLA). In programs assessed in 2007, UC had the second-ranked programs in nursing (UCSF) and veterinary medicine (UC Davis), while UC Berkeley and UCLA tied for eighth on the list of top public health programs. U.S. News does not conduct a survey of dental or optometry schools.
UC Health runs the nation’s largest health sciences training program with more than 14,000 students and 16 health professional schools in medicine, dentistry, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, public health and veterinary medicine.
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