Communication Sciences and Disorders Graduate Programs Rank Among Nation’s Best in U.S. News & World Report Survey

AUSTIN, Texas — March 30, 2007— The University of Texas at Austin’s schools of Business and Law and its colleges of Education and Engineering each rank among the nation’s top graduate programs in this year’s U.S. News & World Report magazine survey.

The audiology and speech pathology programs in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders were ranked 22nd and 10th respectively.

The rankings will be in the April 9 edition of U.S. News & World Report magazine, available on Monday, April 2.

Using quantitative and qualitative measures, the magazine annually ranks graduate school programs in business, education, engineering and law. Certain other Ph.D. programs and specialty programs are ranked in alternate years based on ratings of academic experts, including faculty and administrators. All fields are not surveyed every year by U.S. News & World Report.

The university’s programs in accounting, archives and preservation, Latin American history and petroleum engineering were ranked No. 1 in reputational surveys. Several Ph.D. and graduate programs were ranked among the nation’s top five in the magazine’s reputational survey.

The University of Texas at Austin’s graduate school rankings, based on quantitative and qualitative measures:

• Business — 18th, tied with University of North Carolina

• Education — 14th, tied with New York University, Michigan State University

• Engineering — 11th

• Law — 18th

The University of Texas at Austin’s graduate school rankings (republished in this year’s U.S. News & World Report survey), based on qualitative measures in previous years:

• Information — 7th (based on a 2005 survey of deans, program directors and senior faculty members at 50 schools with accredited master’s programs)

• Public Affairs — 10th (based on a 2004 survey of deans, directors and department chairs representing 253 master’s programs)

Rankings of The University of Texas at Austin’s graduate programs and fields of study (some from previous years), based on opinions of deans, department heads and other senior faculty:

• Business

o accounting — 1st

o entrepreneurship — 8th

o information systems — 3rd

o marketing — 10th

• Education

o administration/supervision — 5th

o special education — 5th

• Engineering

o chemical — 7th

o civil — 4th

o computer engineering — 6th

o environmental/environmental health — 4th

o petroleum — 1st

• Fine Arts (Master of Fine Arts in art and design) — 21st

o painting/drawing — 7th

o printmaking — 6th

• Health Disciplines

o audiology — 22nd

o clinical psychology — 11th

o nursing (master’s) — 19th

o pharmacy (Pharm.D.) — 2nd

o social work (master’s) — 7th

o speech-language pathology — 10th

• Law

o tax law — 9th

• Library and Information Studies

o archives and preservation — 1st

o law librarianship — 3rd

• Public Affairs

o public management/administration — 10th

o public policy analysis — 9th

o social policy — 9th

• The Sciences:

o biological sciences — 23rd

§ ecology/evolutionary biology — 8th

o chemistry — 12th

§ analytical — 5th

o computer science — 9th

§ artificial intelligence — 6th

§ systems — 8th

o Earth sciences — 9th

§ geology — 5th

§ geophysics and seismology — 8th

§ paleontology — 9th

o mathematics — 15th

§ applied math —8th

§ topology — 8th

o physics — 11th

§ atomic/molecular/optical — 10th

§ cosmology/relativity/gravity — 10th

§ plasma — 7th

• Social Sciences and Humanities

o child development and family relations — 66th

o economics — 25th

o educational psychology — 77th

o English — 19th

o history — 19th

o Latin American history — 1st

o political science — 25th

o psychology — 12th

o sociology — 14th

o sociology of population — 5th