ENGINEERING & MEDICINE CITED IN 2015 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT’S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

ENGINEERING & MEDICINE CITED IN 2015 U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT’S BEST GRADUATE SCHOOLS

Physics, Geometry, Earth Science, Computer Science, Biological Sciences and Chemistry all ranked as top grad programs

Designated among the top programs were Stony Brook’s 4th-ranked Nuclear Physics program under the category of “Physics Specialty;”

STONY BROOK, N.Y., March 13, 2014 – Stony Brook University is home to 12 of the highest ranked programs in graduate education in the nation, according to U.S.News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools”.  Stony Brook’s School of Medicine increased in the ranking to 56^th and the School of Engineering was ranked 69^th overall. The top ranked graduate program for Stony Brook continues to be Physics, which was ranked 23^rd. The annual rankings focus on programs in Business, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine, and reflect data from surveys of more than 1,500 schools and more than 12,000 graduate programs.

Designated among the top programs were Stony Brook’s 4^th-ranked Nuclear Physics program under the category of “Physics Specialty;” and the 4^th ranked Geometry program, categorized as a “Mathematics Specialty.” Other rankings in the University’s graduate programs included Topology (Mathematics Specialty), ranked 11^th; Computer Science rising four notches to 40^th; Earth Science ranked 34^th; Biological Sciences rising 13 places to 55^th; and Chemistry ranked at 56^th.
In addition, the following online programs were ranked in the top 100: Stony Brook’s Online Graduate Nursing Programs ranked 16^th; Online Graduate Education Program coming in at 22^nd and Online Business Program ranked 99^th.

All the rankings will be included in the 2015 U.S.News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools” publication.

Stony Brook is ranked in the top 1 percent of the world’s higher education institutions by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It is one of the top 100 universities in the nation and one of the top 35 public universities as determined by U.S.News & World Report. It was recently ranked one of the 30 best values in public colleges and universities by Kiplinger and is one of only 10 universities nationwide recognized by the National Science Foundation for combining research with undergraduate education. As the largest single-site employer on Long Island, Stony Brook is a driving force of the regional economy, with an annual economic impact of $4.65 billion, generating nearly 60,000 jobs, and accounts for nearly 4 percent of all economic activity in Nassau and Suffolk counties, and roughly 7.5 percent of total jobs in Suffolk County.

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