April 4, 2003

BIRMINGHAM, AL — For the first time, the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has cracked the nation’s Top 25, according to the 2004 U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation's best graduate schools. UAB's medical school was ranked 24th in the research category and 22nd in the primary care category.

UAB’s medical specialty program in AIDS was again ranked 4th best in the nation. Other medical specialty programs ranked include the women’s health (14th), and internal medicine (14th).

Other programs in this year’s rankings include health services administration master’s degree (10th), public health master’s degree/doctorate (14th), nursing master’s degree (tied for 19th), nursing anesthesia master’s degree (30th) and rehabilitation counseling (tied for 48th).

Other schools and specific programs are not ranked annually by U.S. News, but appear throughout its most recent rankings. In the most recent rankings in their areas, UAB’s doctoral programs in clinical psychology and psychology were ranked 67th and 116th. The master’s program in public affairs was ranked 65th and the master’s program in occupational therapy was tied for 40th. The biological sciences research program, which includes microbiology and other basic science disciplines was ranked 45th.