Highlights and Rankings
- The UA is ranked 25th in the nation by The Washington Monthly. The annual rankings, which measure the impact universities make on a national scale, are determined by scores in service, research and social mobility.
- U.S. News & World Report places The University of Arizona in a tie for 45th among public national universities, according to the latest rankings in America's Best Colleges 2007. The magazine also ranked the UA's Eller College of Management in a tie for 12th place among undergraduate business programs at public universities.
- The National Science Foundation has ranked The University of Arizona as America's No. 1 university for research expenditures in the physical sciences. The recently released annual NSF rankings of research and development expenditures among American universities showed the UA moving past Johns Hopkins University and the California Institute of Technology to become the nation’s top attractor of research dollars for the physical sciences, which include astronomy, physics and chemistry. Overall, the UA's ranking among public research universities moved from 14th to 13th, and it remained the nation’s No. 21 institution among all public and private universities and colleges. The UA earned these rankings by attracting more than $530 million in research dollars from federal, state and private sources in the 2005 fiscal year.
- The UA ranks in the top 10 of NASA grant recipients and is the first public university to lead a NASA mission to Mars. Called the Phoenix Mars Mission, it will launch in August 2007 and land on Mars in May 2008. The Phoenix Lander will dig into Mar's icy surface in an area of the planet that has never been explored. UA scientists and students will be analyzing the data from the Lander, looking for clues about whether Mars' past or present environment could sustain life.
- In the 2007 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools," the UA management information systems program is ranked 4th, higher education administration is 12th and industrial engineering is 20th.
- The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy admitted 90 students into its doctor of pharmacy program this fall – the largest incoming class since the degree program was initiated in 1985. The program ranks No. 4 in the nation, according to America's Best Graduate Schools 2006, published by U.S. News & World Report.
- The McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the UA Eller College of Management is ranked as the No. 1 entrepreneurship program in the nation by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. More than 300 businesses have been started by graduates of the center in its 21-year existence.
- Eight College of Science disciplines placed among the top 20 in their field in U.S. News & World Report's recent rankings. Analytical chemistry ranked 4th, speech-language pathology 6th, geology 7th, atomic/molecular/optical physics 8th, audiology 8th, geophysics 12th, applied math 13th and geochemistry 16th.
- Six College of Social and Behavioral Sciences departments placed among the top 20 in their field in the National Research Center (NRC) rankings. Anthropology ranked 5th, geography and regional development 19th, linguistics 12th, philosophy 11th, and sociology 14th.
- The communication department in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences has three programs that have been nationally ranked by the National Communication Association: interpersonal communication (10th), mass communication (12th) and health communication (16th).
- The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, a means of assessing doctoral programs at research universities that ranks 354 institutions and more than 7,300 doctoral programs, has ranked several UA programs in the top 10 in the nation: agricultural sciences (No. 1), communication (No. 1), agronomy and crop sciences (No. 1), entomology (No. 2), pharmaceutical sciences and medicinal chemistry (No. 3), botany and plant biology (No. 4) and nutrition (No. 10).
- The James E. Rogers College of Law is the fifth best law school in the country for Hispanic students and the UA College of Medicine ranks ninth, according to Hispanic Business magazine's annual ranking of graduate schools. Small classes and a first-year mentoring program at the College of Law contributed to its national ranking. The College of Medicine boasts the Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellence, which promotes the success of Hispanic students in the medical community.
- University Medical Center, the teaching hospital of The University of Arizona, is ranked among the nation's premier hospitals in eight medical specialties by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings: heart and heart surgery, 16th; respiratory disorders, 20th; cancer, 22nd; neurology and neurosurgery, 22nd; urology 26th; kidney disease 39th; orthopedics, 41st; digestive disorders, 45th.
- Two graduate programs in the department of speech, language and hearing sciences are ranked among the top 10 in the nation. The master of science degree in speech/language pathology is ranked 6th and the doctor of audiology program is ranked 9th by U.S. News & World Report.
- An artificial heart developed by UA physicians and researchers is the only device of its kind approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The CardioWest Temporary Total Artificial Heart is an air-driven device that helps patients stay alive until a donor heart is available.
