STONY BROOK, N.Y., April 7, 2008—Stony Brook University is cited eight times as being among the best in the nation in the current rankings of professional schools in US News & World Report’s 2009 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” The annual rankings by the publication focus on programs in Business, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine, and reflect data from surveys of more than 1,200 programs and over 9,600 academicians and professionals conducted last year.
Stony Brook’s Clinical Psychology program was ranked 9th tying Penn State and Duke University and ahead of such universities as Northwestern and Vanderbilt. In addition, the Nuclear Physics program (categorized as a Physics specialty) ranked 4th, ahead of Yale, Columbia, and the California Institute of Technology.
Stony Brook’s program in Geometry (categorized as a Mathematics specialty) was ranked No. 6, ahead of Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and Yale.
The University’s Physics graduate program ranked 23rd tying with Penn State; the Mathematics program ranked 24th, tying Rutgers, University of California San Diego, and the University of Washington, ahead of Rice, Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State, Georgia Institute of Technology and Indiana. In addition, the Computer Science graduate program was ranked 31st tying with NYU, Rutgers, and Ohio State; the Biological Science program ranked 48th tying with Brandeis and Rice; and, the Physician Assistant program ranked 11th ahead of Northeastern.
“It is very satisfying that the quality of our faculty members and graduate programs have again been recognized as nationally outstanding,” said Stony Brook University President Shirley Kenny.
Stony Brook has been ranked as the 136th best university in the world—out of more than 8,300—by the London Times Higher Education Supplement, in the top 50 in North America, and 10th among U.S. public universities; and ranked tied for 97th in the US News & World Report’s ranking of national universities and was tied for 45th in the ranking of public universities. It was also one of only 36 nationwide cited by the US News for the integration of research into undergraduate education.
The University was also ranked among the top 152 universities in the world by the Institute for Higher Education in Shanghai. In addition, Stony Brook was ranked among the top 100 universities in North and Latin America, with the Institute grouping it in the category of number 58-77. Joining Stony Brook in that grouping were such institutions as Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
