KU Medical Heart graduate packages in well being care administration and public well being rank twenty sixth and fiftieth in new U.S. Information rankings

The well being care administration and public well being packages on the College of Kansas Faculty of Drugs have each moved up in rankings launched right this moment by U.S. Information & World Report in its 2024 Finest Graduate Faculties rankings.

The U.S. Information rankings for Finest Medical Faculties (in addition to Finest Regulation Faculties), initially scheduled for launch on April 18, have been postponed as U.S. Information addresses “an unprecedented variety of inquiries” acquired from colleges in the course of the embargo interval throughout which colleges reviewed their information.

U.S. Information has not supplied a brand new launch date for these rankings, nevertheless it has launched rankings for particular graduate packages.

The well being care administration program, often called Well being Coverage and Administration at KU Faculty of Drugs, ranked twenty sixth for public establishments, up from thirty second within the 2019 rankings, the final time it was ranked. Provided via the Division of Inhabitants Well being as each a grasp’s diploma and a doctorate, this program additionally inched into the highest 50 for all colleges, transferring from 51st for 2019 to tie for the forty seventh spot for 2024. For the well being care administration rankings, survey respondents rated peer packages on a scale of 1-5 for tutorial high quality, and rankings have been decided by the typical of scores every program acquired.

The Grasp of Public Well being program, supplied via the Division of Inhabitants Well being in KU Faculty of Drugs, ranked fiftieth amongst public establishments for 2024, up from 72nd within the 2023 rankings. It now ranks 76th amongst all colleges within the 2024 rankings, up from 106th for 2023. The general public well being rankings have been computed from the outcomes of peer evaluation surveys accomplished by deans, different directors or college at accredited diploma packages or colleges.

“Providing wonderful packages for our college students is a essential a part of our mission,” mentioned Robert D. Simari, M.D., govt vice chancellor of the College of Kansas Medical Heart. “The dedication and high quality of our college and employees have been transferring our establishment ahead, and we count on that development to proceed.”

U.S. Information ranks completely different packages in numerous years. Different KU Medical Heart packages which have a present rating within the high 50 amongst packages at public establishments embrace:

Bodily remedy: sixth
Speech-language pathology: sixth
Occupational remedy: ninth
Audiology: tenth
Nurse-midwifery: eleventh
Nurse anesthesia: 14th
Bachelor of Science in Nursing: twenty second

Total, the College of Kansas has 37 graduate packages within the high 50 amongst public universities — together with 9 packages within the high 10 — within the 2024 rankings from U.S. Information.

“We’re all the time happy to be acknowledged for our nationally famend packages,” mentioned KU Chancellor Douglas A. Girod, M.D. “That mentioned, we stay centered on our personal measures of success and our methods to make sure we’re educating college students, serving Kansas and conducting world-class analysis that improves the world.”