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Wednesday, March 30, 2022 | 11:44 a.m.
U.S. News & World Report recognized 23 UNLV programs, including 13 from the William S. Boyd School of Law, in its annual list of top graduate and professional schools.
The Lee Business School’s part-time MBA program was also ranked among the top 75, and four engineering disciplines landed in the top 100 on the 2023 Best Graduate Colleges rankings released Tuesday.
“Nevada needs highly skilled professionals, and UNLV’s strong graduate programs answer the call by training future leaders in areas essential to our state’s growth and sustainability,” UNLV President Keith E. Whitfield said in a statement.
Boyd Law again ranked among the nation’s best in overall and multiple discipline-specific categories. It held on to the top spot in legal writing for the fifth straight year.
Overall, Boyd ranked 67th among 192 accredited programs. Its part-time program ranked 20th, and the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution placed 8th in the dispute resolution category.
UNLV also scored top-100 UNLV graduate programs in social work (79), geology (81), public affairs (88), nursing master's (90), and doctor of nursing practice (99).
In engineering, top-100 ranked programs include nuclear engineering (28), aerospace studies (65), environmental engineering (84), and civil engineering (98).
Each year, U.S. News analyzes more than 2,000 graduate and specialty programs in a broad range of disciplines.
Programs are ranked by discipline or specialty and evaluated based on criteria specific to each degree field, expert opinions about program excellence, and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research and students.
In addition to U.S. News' annual rankings of graduate programs in six major disciplines, the publication also periodically ranks other specialty programs in health sciences, social sciences and humanities, and the sciences.
UNLV has several other top-100 graduate programs ranked during the discipline’s most current ratings period, including criminology (29 in 2021), sociology (84 in 2021), political science (89 in 2021), English (99 in 2021), physical therapy (57 in 2020) and health care management (65 in 2019).
