Up Through the Ranks
Do national rankings truly measure student learning, or are they more about reputation?
Despite all the pros and cons, rankings are commonly accepted markers of general quality.
UT Chancellor Loren Crabtree takes a measured approach.
“While rankings can provide a part of the picture of a university’s quality, they surely are not the only measure,” he says. “It is affirming, however, to see the University of Tennessee continue to be counted in many ways among our nation’s finest public universities.”
Here are some recent UT rankings:
- Supply chain and logistics graduate program, College of Business Administration—10th in the U.S., tied with Stanford University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
- College of Law—53rd nationally, up from 60th.
- College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences overall graduate program—41st, one slot higher than Cornell and the University of Florida.
- College of Nursing overall graduate program—72nd, tied with Rutgers, Brigham Young, and Baylor.
All of the above rankings are by U.S. News & World Report.
UT’s accounting programs are traditionally well respected. Public Accounting Report places the undergraduate accounting program 20th among U.S. public universities and the graduate program 19th.
Other nationally ranked UT programs are in social work, information science, art, audiology and speech pathology, and nuclear engineering.
In the College of Business Administration, other programs that are perennial national leaders include the full-time MBA, executive MBA, physician executive MBA, and the overall undergraduate program.