The University of Washington again has been ranked in the top 10 among U.S. medical schools for the academic specialty of drug & alcohol abuse, according to the 2007 annual rankings of graduate and professional programs provided by U.S. News & World Report.
The top 10 in the academic specialty of drug/alcohol abuse are:
1. Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons (NY)
2. Yale University (CT)
3. Harvard University (MA)
Johns Hopkins University (MD)
University of California-San Francisco
6. University of Pennsylvania
7. University of California-Los Angeles (Geffen)
8. Medical University of South Carolina
New York University
10. University of California-San Diego
University of Washington
Washington University in St. Louis
In other categories, the UW ranked first among primary care medical and masters' level nursing schools; it was ranked as the 6th top research school, and was ranked first among public medical schools and second among all medical schools in research funding from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2006. Other academic specialities in which the UW was highly ranked include: family medicine (first for 16th year in a row), rural medicine (first for 16th year in a row), AIDS (4), women's health (8), internal medicine (6), geriatrics (7), and pediatrics (8). The UW is the only medical school in the nation ranked in the top 10 for all eight specialties included in the rankings.
