Rankings

UPDATE: March 12, 2013
UT Austin Graduate Programs Receive Top Rankings from U.S. News

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.

See more University of Texas at Austin Rankings and Kudos.

2013 U.S. News and World Report *

At the graduate level, forty-one UT programs and specialties rank in the top ten nationally. Fifty-six others rank in the top 25. These rankings are for all graduate programs and specialties – Master’s and doctoral combined – and the word “program” is used by U.S. News and World Report to refer to specific areas of study that may, in some cases, be subareas or concentrations of a graduate program at the university.

• 17 - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
  1 - Accounting
  4 - Information Systems
  7 - Entrepreneurship
  7 - Part-time MBA
  11 - Marketing
  11 - Production/Operations
  14 - Finance
  15 - International
  15 - Executive MBA
  15 - Supply Chain Logistics
  18 - Management
  
  
• COMMUNICATION
  10 - Speech-language/Pathology
  21 - Audiology
  
  
• 3 - EDUCATION
  6 - Administration/Supervision
  5 - Special Education
  10 - Educational Psychology
  12 - Curriculum/Instruction
  12 - Secondary Teacher Education
  18 - Higher Education Administration (Ranked in 2011)
  13 - Elementary Education
  23 - Rehabilitation Counseling (Ranked in 2011)
  
  
• 8 - ENGINEERING
  1 - Petroleum (Ranked in 2009)
  4 - Environmental/Environmental Health
  5 - Civil
  5 - Chemical
  8 - Aerospace/Aeronatical/Astronautical
  9 - Computer Engineering
  12 - Electrical/Electronic Communications
  13 - Mechanical
  14 - Biomedical/Bioengineering
  17 - Industrial/Manufacturing
  21 - Materials
  
  
• 22 - FINE ARTS
  10 - Printmaking
  15 - Sculpture
  16 - Painting/Drawing
  
  
• 16 - LAW
  14 - Tax Law
  17 - Law Firms Rank Schools (Ranked in 2011)
  20 - Healthcare Law (Ranked in 2011)
  24 - Intellectual Property Law
  
  
• LIBERAL ARTS
  13 - Psychology (Ranked in 2009)
  • 11 - Social Psychology (Ranked in 2009)
  • 11 - Clinical Psychology
  14 - Sociology (Ranked in 2009)
  • 4 - Sociology of Population (Ranked in 2009)
  • 16 - Social Stratification (Ranked in 2009)
  17 - English (Ranked in 2009)
  17 - History (Ranked in 2009)
  • 1 - Latin American History (Ranked in 2009)
  • 14 - Modern U.S. History (Ranked in 2009)
  21 - Political Science (Ranked in 2009)
  25 - Economics (Ranked in 2009)
  
  
• 8 - LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (Ranked in 2009)
  1 - Archives and Preservation (Ranked in 2009)
  3 - Law Librarianship (Ranked in 2009)
  11 - Information Systems (Ranked in 2009)
  13 - Digital Librarianship (Ranked in 2009)
  16 - School Library Media (Ranked in 2009)
  
  
• NATURAL SCIENCES
  26 - Biological Sciences (Ranked in 2010)
  • 6 - Ecology/Evolutionary Biology (Ranked in 2010)
  8 - Computer Sciences (Ranked in 2010)
  • 5 - Artificial Intelligence (Ranked in 2010)
  • 5 - Programming Language (Ranked in 2010)
  • 8 - Systems (Ranked in 2010)
  • 10 - Theory (Ranked in 2010)
  12 - Chemistry (Ranked in 2010)
  • 5 - Analytical (Ranked in 2010)
  • 10 - Theoretical (Ranked in 2010)
  • 12 - Physical (Ranked in 2010)
  • 14 - Organic (Ranked in 2010)
  • 19 - Inorganic (Ranked in 2010)
    
  9 - Earth Sciences (Ranked in 2010)
  • 3 - Geology (Ranked in 2010)
  • 6 - Geophysics and Seismology (Ranked in 2010)
  14 - Physics (Ranked in 2010)
  • 5 - Plasma (Ranked in 2010)
  • 8 - Cosmology/Relativity/Gravity (Ranked in 2010)
  • 13 - Elementary Particle/Fields/String Theory (Ranked in 2010)
  14 - Mathematics (Ranked in 2010)
  • 8 - Topology (Ranked in 2010)
  • 9 - Applied Mathematic s(Ranked in 2010)
  • 11 - Analysis (Ranked in 2010)
  • 12 - Geometry (Ranked in 2010)
  • 18 - Algebra/Number Theory/Algebraic Geometry (Ranked in 2010)
    

• 32 - NURSING (Ranked in 2011)

• 4 - PHARMACY
  
  
• 16 - PUBLIC AFFAIRS
  8 - Nonprofit Management
  8 - Information Technology & Management
  11 - Public Policy Analysis
  14 - Environmental Policy & Management (Ranked in 2008)
  14 - Public Management Administration
  14 - Social Policy
  16 - Public Finance and Budgeting
  
  
• 7 - SOCIAL WORK

*New rankings for 2013 reflect programs ranked in 2012

Also see the National Research Council's Data-Based Rankings of Doctoral Research Programs in the U.S.