The University of Washington is No. 1 among both nursing schools and primary-care medical schools in U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.

In the issue on newsstands this week, more than 40 UW programs and specialties received rankings in the top 10 from among the hundreds that were considered across the nation. Another nine received rankings of No. 25 or better.

This is the seventh time that the UW has topped the nursing school rankings. Eight academic specialties in the school also were ranked: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, first; Clinical Nurse Specialist, Adult Medical/Surgical, first; Clinical Nurse Specialist, Community/Public Health, first; Clinical Nurse Specialist, Psychiatry/Mental Health, first; Family Nurse Practitioner, second; Adult Nurse Practitioner, second; Gerontological, second; Nursing Service Administration, third.

This is the seventh straight year that the School of Medicine has been named the top primary-care medical school. In the overall ranking of medical schools, the UW medical school was No. 9. Academic specialties ranked at the medical school were: Family Medicine, first; Rural Medicine, first; Pediatrics, fourth; AIDS, fourth; Women’s Health, fourth; Geriatrics, sixth; Internal Medicine, seventh; Microbiology, seventh; Drug and Alcohol Abuse, ninth.

Other UW graduate programs and academic specialties ranked in the magazine were: Social Work, third; Speech and Hearing Sciences (not ranked), with specialties Speech Pathology, second and Audiology, fourth; Drama/Theater, fourth; Public Health, fifth, with specialty Health services administration, fourth.

Computer Science ranked seventh, with specialties Software, fifth; Hardware, seventh; Theory, eighth; Artificial Intelligence, ninth; and Graphics: User Interaction, ninth.

Engineering was 31^st, with specialties Bioengineering (joint program between Engineering and School of Medicine) fifth and Computer Engineering, ninth.

Creative Writing was 10^th. Sociology was 13^th, with specialty Social Psychology seventh. Physics was 14^th, with specialty Nuclear Physics second and Atomic/Molecular Physics eighth. Psychology was 16^th, with specialty Clinical Psychology sixth. Geology was 18^th, with specialty Geophysics ninth.

Architecture was 19^th, Biological Sciences, 20^th; English, 24^th; History, 24^th; Mathematics, 25^th, with specialty Mathematical Statistics, ninth. Law was 26^th.

Education was 27^th, with specialties Special Education, sixth and Secondary Teacher, ninth. Music was 30^th.

High-ranking graduate programs from previous years that were not re-evaluated this year include: Nursing specialty in Midwifery (No. 10); Pharmacy (No. 13); Public Affairs (No. 20) and specialties Public Policy Analysis (No. 26), Environmental Policy (No. 5) and Nonprofit Management (No. 11); and Library Science (No. 18).

Selected rankings appear in the April 10 issue of U.S. News & World Report. The rankings are established through several combined methods including statistical analysis of selected academic attributes and surveys of deans and senior faculty at accredited schools in each discipline. ¶