Two graduate programs in the state were ranked in the Top 100 nationally by U.S. News & World Report, which issued its annual graduate school rankings Tuesday — but the state made more of an impression in business programs that may be the norm moving forward.
New Jersey had three schools ranked highly for their part-time MBA programs and four for their online MBA programs:
- Full-time: Rutgers University-Newark/New Brunswick (No. 44), Stevens Institute of Technology (No. 68);
- Part-time: Rutgers-Newark/New Brunswick (No. 28), Rutgers-Camden (No. 57) and Seton Hall University (No. 73);
- Online: Stevens (No. 35), Rutgers-Camden (No. 76), Montclair State University (No. 79) and New Jersey Institute of Technology (No. 100).
The rankings do not cause as much of a stir as the U.S. News undergraduate rankings, but they do provide a snapshot of how New Jersey programs rank nationwide. The site ranks numerous graduate programs — plus a number of specialties within those programs.
See the U.S. News rankings here.
Here is how New Jersey programs did in some of other main areas of graduate study:
Law
- Seton Hall: No. 70;
- Rutgers-Newark/Camden: No. 91.
Engineering
- Princeton University: No. 22;
- Rutgers-New Brunswick: No. 54;
- Stevens: No. 79;
- NJIT: No. 88.
Medical Schools (Research)
- Rutgers New Jersey Medical School – Newark: No. 66;
- Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – New Brunswick: No. 70;
- Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: No. 93-123;
- Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine: No. 93-123.
Medical Schools (Primary care)
- Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: No. 93-123;
- Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine: No. 93-123;
- Rutgers New Jersey Medical School – Newark: No. 93-123;
- Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – New Brunswick: No. 93-123.
Nursing (Doctor of nursing)
- Rutgers-Newark: No. 15;
- Seton Hall: No. 98.
Nursing (Master’s)
- Rutgers-Newark: No. 15;
- Seton Hall: No. 66.
Education
- Rutgers-New Brunswick: No. 47.
Computer Science
- Princeton: 8;
- NJIT: 91;
- Stevens: 91.
Public Affairs
- Princeton: No. 9;
- Rutgers: No. 34.
For those curious, here are the top three schools in the traditionally top programs of study:
- Business: Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), University of Chicago (Booth);
- Law: Yale University, Stanford, Harvard University;
- Medical schools (Research): Harvard, New York University, Duke University;
- Engineering: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, University of California-Berkeley;
- Nursing (Master’s): Johns Hopkins University, Emory University, Duke, Penn;
- Education: Harvard, Penn, UCLA.
And, finally, Princeton.
The school, which has been No. 1 on the undergraduate list 10 years running, does not have a law or medical school. But it does have a number of programs that were ranked incredibly high, including:
- No. 1: Economics, math;
- No. 2: History, political science, sociology;
- No. 3: English, physics.
