The Graduate School
Rankings
The university places a premium on outstanding instruction. Its academic programs and professional schools rank largely among the top 20 programs and schools in the country. The faculty includes members of the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as winners of Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. More than 1,000 privately funded endowed faculty positions exist at the university. Each year about 100 faculty members receive teaching excellence awards.
The Chronicle of Higher Education's 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index rates faculty members’ scholarly output and compiles overall institutional rankings on 375 universities that offer the Ph.D. degree.
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2010 U.S. News and World Report *
At the graduate level, forty-three UT programs and specialties rank in the top ten nationally. Fifty-three others rank in the top 25.
- 18- BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
1 - Accounting
3 - Information Systems
8 - Entrepreneurship
10 - Marketing
12 - Production/Operations
14 - International
17 - Finance
17 - Supply Chain Logistics
18 - Executive MBA
19 - Management
27 - Part-time MBA
- COMMUNICATION
9 - Audiology (Ranked in 2008)
9 - Speech-language/Pathology (Ranked in 2008)
- 7 - EDUCATION
7 - Special Education
10 - Administration/Supervision
10 - Curriculum/Instruction
12 - Educational Psychology
12 - Elementary Education
15 - Secondary Teacher Education
24 - Rehabilitation Counseling (Ranked in 2007)
- 10 - ENGINEERING
1 - Petroleum (Ranked in 2008)
3 - Civil
4 - Environmental/Environmental Health
7 - Chemical
8 - Aerospace/Aeronatical/Astronautical
9 - Computer Engineering
10 - Electrical/Electronic Communications
11 - Mechanical
16 - Industrial/Manufacturing
17 - Biomedical/Bioengineering
17 - Materials
- 15 - FINE ARTS, MASTER OF (Ranked in 2008)
11 - Printmaking (Ranked in 2008)
18 - Sculpture (Ranked in 2008)
22 - Painting/Drawing (Ranked in 2008)
- 15 - LAW
13 - Tax Law
13 - International Law
20 - Intellectual Property Law
- LIBERAL ARTS
14 - Sociology- 4 - Sociology of Population
- 16 - Social Stratification
- 11 - Social Psychology
- 16 - Clinical Psychology
25 - Economics
17 - History- 1 - Latin American History
- 14 - Modern U.S. History
- 8 - LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
1 - Archives and Preservation
3 - Law Librarianship
11 - Information Systems
13 - Digital Librarianship
16 - School Library Media
- NATURAL SCIENCES
23 - Biological Sciences (Ranked in 2007)- 8 - Ecology/Evolutionary Biology (Ranked in 2007)
- 5 - Artificial Intelligence (Ranked in 2008)
- 8 - Systems (Ranked in 2008)
- 8 - Programming Language (Ranked in 2008)
- 10 - Theory (Ranked in 2008)
- 5 - Analytical (Ranked in 2007)
- 14 - Physical (Ranked in 2007)
- 15 - Organic (Ranked in 2007)
- 15 - Theoretical (Ranked in 2007)
- 5 - Geology (Ranked in 2006)
- 8 - Geophysics and Seismology (Ranked in 2006)
- 9 - Paleontology (Ranked in 2006)
- 5 - Plasma (Ranked in 2008)
- 11 - Elementary Particle/Fields/String Theory (Ranked in 2008)
- 7 - Topology (Ranked in 2008)
- 9 - Applied Mathematics(Ranked in 2008)
- 10 - Analysis(Ranked in 2008)
- 11 - Algebra/Number Theory/Algebraic Geometry (Ranked in 2008)
- 13 - Geometry (Ranked in 2008)
- 19 - NURSING (Ranked in 2007)
- 23 - Family (Ranked in 2007)
- 4 - PHARMACY (Ranked in 2008)
- 14 - PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Ranked in 2008)
9 - Social Policy (Ranked in 2008)
9 - Information Technology & Management (Ranked in 2008)
10 - Public Policy Analysis (Ranked in 2008)
11 - Nonprofit Management (Ranked in 2008)
14 - Environmental Policy & Management (Ranked in 2008)
17 - Public Management Administration (Ranked in 2008)
18 - Public Finance and Budgeting (Ranked in 2008)
- 6 - SOCIAL WORK (Ranked in 2008)
*New rankings for 2010 reflect programs ranked in 2009
National Research Council
Seven UT doctoral programs rank in the top ten nationally, Twenty-two other departments rank in the top 25. (Ranked in 1995)
| Civil Engineering - 4 | Geography - 14 |
| Computer Science - 7 | Geosciences - 15 |
| Aerospace Engineering - 8 | Mechanical Engineering - 15 |
| Classics - 8 | Sociology - 16 |
| Astrophysics/Astronomy - 10 | Psychology - 16 |
| Chemical Engineering - 10 | Music - 17 |
| Ecology, Evolution and Behavior - 10 | Biomedical Engineering - 19 |
| Linguistics - 11 | Art History - 19 |
| Physics - 11 | Government - 19 |
| Anthropology - 12 | Materials Science Engineering - 20 |
| Spanish and Portuguese - 12 | Comparative Literature - 21 |
| Germanic Languages - 13 | English - 21 |
| Chemistry - 13 | History - 21 |
| Electrical Engineering - 14 | Mathematics - 23 |
| French - 23 |