ESE tied for 9th place in U.S. News and World Report rankings
| April 23, 2009 | |
Dr. Mike Aitken
The UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering is one of the nation’s best environment/environmental health programs, according to U.S. News and World Report. The magazine ranks the best graduate programs each year. The School’s environmental sciences and engineering department ranks among the top engineering schools in the nation perennially, even though UNC Chapel Hill does not have an engineering school. Michael D. Aitken, PhD, chairs the department. The most recent lists of top-rated programs appear in the magazine’s 2010 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” available at newsstands on April 28. U.S. News first ranked graduate programs in 1987 and has done so annually since 1990. Business, education, engineering, law and medicine are ranked annually. Those rankings are based on expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research and students, according to magazine officials. Other disciplines and specialties in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and other areas, including selected health specialties (and the UNC school of public health) are ranked periodically. Those rankings are based only on the ratings of academic experts. In 2007, when the magazine last ranked schools of public health, UNC was rated the top public school of public health, tied with Harvard for #2 overall. # # #
More information is available at www.usnews.com. UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
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