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NASHVILLE – Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management leapt 15 places to No. 34 in the business school category of U.S. News & World Report's rankings of graduate and professional schools released on Friday.
The Owen Graduate School of Management rose to tie Pennsylvania State University at No. 34, up from Owen’s No. 49 last year. Jim Bradford, dean of the Owen School and Ralph Owen Professor for the Practice of Management, attributed the improvement to an investment in retaining and attracting faculty and innovative market-driven initiatives such as Owen’s health care MBA program.
“It is rewarding that our hard work over the past several years is being recognized,” Bradford said.
“We will continue the push to recruit outstanding students, build great programs and hire and encourage world class faculty because that is what Vanderbilt – and our stakeholders – demand and deserve.”
The Peabody College of Education and Human Development ranked No. 3, Vanderbilt Law School ranked No. 16, the School of Medicine No. 18 for research and No. 30 for primary care, the School of Nursing No. 19, the doctoral program in biological sciences No. 34 and the School of Engineering No. 42.
