Several of Emory University’s graduate schools and programs are ranked among the best in the nation, according to analysis and surveys released today in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” guide.

Professional schools

Emory's schools of law and business were the top-ranked schools in Georgia in their respective categories.

• Emory Law School ranked 24^th in the nation.
•  Goizueta Business School’s full-time M.B.A. program was 19^th, its part-time M.B.A. program 13^th. 
• The School of Medicine was 21^st nationally among research-oriented medical schools (the highest in Georgia), and 40^th among primary care schools.

Graduate programs

• Emory’s joint Department of Biomedical Engineering program with Georgia Tech ranked 2^nd in the nation for the sixth consecutive year.
• Emory’s Ph.D. program in clinical psychology, a program of the Laney Graduate School, was ranked 18^th in the country.
• Also ranked this year was Emory’s physical therapy program, which was 7^th in the nation. 

Several other health-related programs were not surveyed this year, so that Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health remains 6^th in the nation, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing remains 21^st and the physician assistant program 4^th.

U.S. News first published a reputation-only graduate school ranking in 1987. The annual America's Best Graduate Schools report began in 1990.