NEWS

Carolina appears on multiple lists of newly ranked programs and specialty areas produced by U.S. News and World Report magazine for its 2005 edition of "America’s Best Graduate Schools."

Degree programs or specialty areas from the schools of business, education, government, law, medicine, public health and social work as well as the College of Arts and Sciences appear in the latest graduate rankings by the magazine.

The new rankings appear on the U.S. News website, www.usnews.com, and in the annual "America’s Best Graduate Schools" guidebook. U.S. News first ranked graduate programs in 1987 and has done so annually since 1990. Business, education, engineering, law and medicine are ranked annually. Other disciplines and specialties are ranked periodically. Following is a summary of Carolina’s newly ranked programs and specialty areas:

• Primary care, tied for 5th
• Research, tied for 20th

• Rural medicine, tied for 5^th
• Family medicine, tied for 5^th
• Women’s health, tied for 6^th
• AIDS, tied for 11^th
• Internal medicine, 16th
• Geriatrics, tied for 17th
• Drug/alcohol abuse, 18^th
• Pediatrics, 18th

• Master’s degree program, tied for 7^th

• Master’s of public administration program, tied for 10^th

• City management and urban policy, tied for 6^th
• Health policy and management, tied for 9th
• Environment policy and management, 10^th
• Public management administration, 14^th
• Public policy analysis, 14th
• Public finance and budgeting, tied for 21^st

• Environmental/environmental health, tied for 5th

• Occupational therapy, tied for 5th
• Clinical psychology, tied for 8^th
• Physical therapy, tied for 8th
• Audiology, tied for 13^th
• Speech-language pathology, tied for 13^th

• Tied for 21^st (for master of business administration degree programs)

• Accounting, 10^th
• Production/operations, tied for 10^th
• Executive MBA Program, 12^th
• Management, 14^th
• Marketing, tied for 19^th
• Supply chain/logistics, 19^th

• Tied for 27^th

• Listed among the top law schools for racial and ethnic diversity.

• 30^th

• Educational psychology, tied for 19th
• Curriculum/instruction, tied for 21^st
• Educational policy, tied for 21st
• Administration/supervision, tied for 22^nd

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