Several Emory schools and programs changed rankings in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2015 national graduate school rankings, released March 11.

Emory’s School of Law, School of Medicine and Goizueta Business School are the top ranked schools in Georgia in their categories.

The Law School was ranked No. 19 in the nation, up from No. 23 last year.

Goizueta Business School’s full-time MBA program ranked No. 20, down from No. 18, and its part-time MBA program ranked No. 11, up from No. 14.

The School of Medicine was ranked No. 24 among research-oriented medical schools and No. 48 among primary care schools.

The Emory and Georgia Institute of Technology’s joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. program ranked No. 2 in the nation for the eighth consecutive year.

Two Ph.D. programs in Emory’s Laney Graduate School were ranked this year. Biological sciences ranked No. 30 in the nation and chemistry ranked No. 35. Both improved over their last rankings in 2010.

Laney Graduate School Dean Lisa Tedesco said that these rankings are in part reflected by the reputation of the departments.

“Emory University’s Laney Graduate School is on the younger side compared to most of our research peers,” Tedesco said. “As our students graduate and make their way into academic and professional life, we are becoming more well-known with greater recognition of the excellence, discovery and innovation that our students’ work represents.”

Emory’s faculty is part of what makes the programs succeed, according to Tedesco.

“Our rankings confirm what we at Emory already know: our graduate programs are among the best in the nation,” Tedesco said. “Graduate education drives the advances in problem solving and understanding the world so desperately needs across sectors, disciplines and regions.”

According to a March 11 University press release, several health programs were not surveyed this year.

As such, Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health remains No. 6 in the nation, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing remains No. 21, the physician assistant program is No. 4 and the physical therapy program remains No. 7. Emory’s Ph.D. program in clinical psychology, last ranked in 2012, remained No. 18 in the nation.

– By Stephen Fowler

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Stephen Fowler 16C is the political reporter at Georgia Public Broadcasting, the statewide NPR affiliate in Georgia. He graduated from Emory with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and covered the central administration and Greek Life for the Wheel before serving as assistant news editor, Emory Life editor and the Executive Digital Editor from 2015-16.