U.S. News grad school rankings: N.J. has Top 100 programs in business, law, engineering and medicine, among others

State also does well for online business graduate programs and part-time MBAs

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ROI-NJ Staff
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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.