
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, March 12, 1990                   TAG: 9003123001
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

MAGAZINE RANKS TOP GRADUATE SCHOOLS

Harvard has the nation's top medical school, Stanford offers the finest business training, Yale has the premium law school, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the best place for a graduate degree in engineering, says a survey released today.

A school's reputation among educators and in the outside world was a major subjective factor, said U.S. News & World Report in releasing the results of a survey evaluating U.S. graduate education in its March 19 issue.

Although the rankings were dominated by institutions with established reputations, the survey also identified the "dark horse" institutions in each field by giving them a "best-up-and-coming" designation.

Those were Washington University in St. Louis for business; George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., for law; University of Alabama at Birmingham for medicine; and University of California at Santa Barbara for engineering.

-Associated Press

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