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US News and World Report Ranks Schools Of Public Health
Many Of The Oldest
Schools Ranked Highest
Graduate school rankings for 2015 have been released by
US News and World Report for public health programs. Rankings for
public health are released every four years.
According to US News, all the health rankings are based solely on the
results of peer assessment surveys sent to deans, other administrators
and/or faculty at accredited degree programs or schools of public
health. All schools surveyed were sent the same number of surveys. The
response rate was 59%.
Methods
Respondents rated the academic quality of programs on a scale of 1
(marginal) to 5 (outstanding). They were instructed to select "don't
know" if they did not have enough knowledge to rate a program.
Fifty
Schools of Public Health accredited by the Council on Education for
Public Health were surveyed in the fall of 2014 and ranks calculated
in 2015. The top 20 ranked schools along with their scores are listed
below.
|
Rank |
School |
Score |
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1 |
Johns Hopkins |
4.8 |
|
2 |
Harvard |
4.7 |
|
2 |
UNC Chapel Hill |
4.7 |
|
4 |
Univ of Michigan |
4.5 |
|
5 |
Columbia |
4.4 |
|
6 |
Univ of Washington |
4.2 |
|
7 |
Emory |
4.1 |
|
8 |
Univ of Minnesota |
4.0 |
|
9 |
UC Berkeley |
3.9 |
|
10 |
Boston University |
3.6 |
|
10 |
UCLA |
3.6 |
|
12 |
Tulane |
3.5 |
|
13 |
Univ of Pittsburgh |
3.4 |
|
14 |
George Washington Univ |
3.2 |
|
14 |
Yale Univ |
3.2 |
|
16 |
Univ of South Florida |
3.1 |
|
17 |
Univ of Illinois |
3.0 |
|
17 |
Univ of Iowa |
3.0 |
|
19 |
Ohio State |
2.9 |
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19 |
Univ of Alabama |
2.8 |
Many
of the Graduate Schools have publicized their standings in the
rankings focusing either on the rank itself, on being in the top 10,
or on progress made in the rankings since the last release. For
example, the dean of the school at Johns Hopkins issued this
statement--
"We
are honored and humbled that our peers have once again made us the No.
1 school of public health in the United States, even during this time
of explosive growth in public health education," said Michael J.
Klag, dean of Bloomberg School.
Sandro Galea
had this to say after BU was named in the top ten.
“I think this reflects the extraordinary work of our faculty,
students, and staff over the school’s history…It also represents a
recognition of our commitment to be both a global leader in public
health scholarship and to train the next generation of the public
health workforce with a ‘real world’ approach to empowering
communities, locally and globally.”
For a complete list of
the rankings of all 50 schools surveyed, visit:
http://tinyurl.com/o7otf6d ■
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