U.S. News & World Report announced on Tuesday the 2019 Best Graduate Schools - and Massachusetts is, unsurprisingly, well-represented in almost all charts.
Harvard University is at No. 1 for its full-time MBA program (tie with the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business), No. 1 medical school for research, No. 2 education graduate program and No. 3 law school.
The graduate disciplines U.S. News ranks annually are evaluated on factors such as employment rates and starting salaries for graduates and standardized test scores of newly enrolled students. Because each graduate program is different, the rankings methodology varies across disciplines.
Here’s a breakdown of how local colleges and universities performed in each ranking. The complete rankings - including data for best graduate school rankings in the fields of nursing, social work, criminology, public affairs and sciences - are available here.
2019 Best Graduate Schools Rankings - Full-Time MBA
The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business moves up this year to tie with Harvard University for the No. 1 spot among full-time MBA programs. MIT Sloan School of Management earns the No. 5 spot, while BU's Questrom appears at No. 42. Below, we find Boston College (No. 48), UMass Amherst (No. 55), Northeastern University (No. 59) and Babson College (No. 83). Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business ranked first under the category "Best graduate entrepreneurship programs," followed by Stanford University (No. 2), MIT (No. 3) and Harvard University (No. 4).
2019 Best Graduate Schools Rankings - Education
Harvard University comes second place in this ranking (tie with University of Wisconsin-Madison), with UCLA No. 1. The second local school to make its appearance is Boston College (No. 21), followed by Boston University (No. 34) and UMass Amherst (No. 51).
2019 Best Graduate Schools Rankings - Engineering
No surprises here. MIT is No. 1, with Harvard University at No. 22, Boston University at No. 35 and Northeastern University at No. 37. At No. 65, we find UMass Amherst, followed by UMass Lowell at No. 122 and UMass Dartmouth at No. 132.
2019 Best Graduate Schools Rankings - Full-Time Law
Harvard Law is No. 3 here, outpaced by Yale and Stanford. Boston University is at No. 22. Below, we find Boston College (No. 27) and, well below, Northeastern University (No. 74)
2019 Best Graduate Schools Rankings - Medical Research
Harvard University gets again the first place, followed by Boston University (No. 29) and University of Massachusetts, Worcester (No. 46).
2019 Best Graduate Schools Rankings - Medical Primary Care
It's the only ranking among those reported in this list that doesn't include a Massachusetts university in the top ten. Harvard University places at No. 12, University of Massachusetts, Worcester at No. 14, Boston University at No. 26 and Tufts University at No. 46.
