Highlights & Rankings
- U.S. News & World Report places The University of Arizona in a tie for 45th among public national universities in America's Best Colleges 2009. The magazine also ranked the UA's Eller College of Management in a tie for 15th place among undergraduate business programs at public universities. Eller's management information systems program ranked 2nd among all public universities and 4th overall. The College of Engineering tied for 26th among public universities.
- In the 2009 edition of U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Graduate Schools, the UA's management information systems program, social psychology program and the rehabilitation counseling program are ranked 5th. The geology program and analytical chemistry program are ranked 7th. The geosciences department is ranked 8th and the sociology department is ranked 17th.
- The UA was named one of the country's best colleges by the Princeton Review in its 2009 edition of The Best 368 Colleges.
- The UA is ranked in the top 50 institutions nationwide by the Washington Monthly. Ranked at No. 47 overall in a list of nearly 260 universities across the nation, the UA earned the following rankings in specific areas: No. 10 for federal money spent on service, No. 18 for research expenditures, No. 25 for science and engineering doctoral degrees awarded, No. 26 for faculty who are members of national academies, No. 30 for research and No. 31 for faculty receiving significant awards.
- The UA College of Medicine is ranked No. 9 in the nation for Hispanic students by Hispanic Business Magazine.
- The UA College of Pharmacy ranks No. 9 in the nation, according to America's Best Graduate Schools 2009, published by U.S. News & World Report. The Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health ranks No. 21.
- The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the Eller College of Management is ranked as the nation's No. 1 entrepreneurship program among public institutions by the Princeton Review and No. 5 by Entrepreneur Magazine. More than 300 businesses have been started by graduates of the center since it was founded in 1984.
- The communication department in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences has three programs that have been nationally ranked by the National Communication Association: interpersonal communication (10th), mass communication (12th) and health communication (16th).
- The UA's department of philosophy is ranked No. 1 in the world in political philosophy and No. 2 in the philosophy of cognitive science by The Philosophical Gourmet Report. Overall, the department is ranked 13th in the world.
- The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, a means of assessing doctoral programs at research universities that ranks 354 institutions and more than 7,300 doctoral programs, has ranked several UA programs in the top 10 in the nation in the following disciplines: agriculture (No. 1), plant pathology (No. 1), management information systems (No.1), composition, rhetoric and writing (No. 1), linguistics (No. 2), Near and Middle Eastern languages and cultures (No. 2), plant sciences (No. 3), clinical psychology (No. 3), teacher education (No. 4), soil science (No. 5), entomology (No. 5), nutrition sciences (No. 6), geological and mining engineering (No. 7), speech and hearing sciences (No. 8), natural resources and conservation (No. 8), applied mathematics (No. 8), systems engineering (No. 9), anatomy (No. 10), oncology and cancer biology (No. 10), toxicology (No. 10), engineering mechanics (No. 10), applied physics (No. 10).
- The James E. Rogers College of Law is the 4th best law school in the country for Hispanic students and the UA College of Medicine ranks 9th, according to Hispanic Business Magazine's annual ranking of graduate schools. Small classes and a first-year mentoring program at the College of Law contributed to its national ranking. The College of Medicine boasts the Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellence, which promotes the success of Hispanic students in the medical community.
- University Medical Center, the teaching hospital of the University of Arizona, is ranked among the nation's best hospitals in five medical specialties by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings: respiratory disorders (No. 34); heart and heart surgery (No. 43); kidney disease (No. 43); geriatric care (No. 50); ear, nose and throat (No. 50).
- Two graduate programs in the department of speech, language and hearing sciences are ranked among the top 10 in the nation. The Master of Science degree in speech/language pathology is ranked 5th and the doctor of audiology program is ranked 9th by U.S. News & World Report.
- The 2009 Financial Times ranks the Eller College of Management's Master of Business Administration degree program as No. 5 among U.S. public universities, No. 19 among all U.S. institutions and No. 42 in the world. The Chris and Carol McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship was ranked No. 9 in the world.
- The residency program of the UA's department of radiology has been ranked No. 1 out of 186 programs nationwide by the American Board of Radiology.
- The College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture was ranked No. 12 in the nation in the 10th annual America's Best Architecture Schools study by the Design Futures Councils.
- The University of Arizona is ranked No. 23 in research and development expenditures among public and private universities and colleges by the National Science Foundation. The UA earned the ranking by attracting more than $530 million in research dollars from federal, state and private sources in the 2007 fiscal year.
