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U.S. News Releases 2015 Best GraduateSchools Rankings Find out which schools came out on top for law, business, medicine andmore.

Job placement success for students upon graduation factors into the MBA rankings, where The WhartonSchool at University of Pennsylvania tied with two other schools for first place.

By Delece Smith-Barrow March 11, 2014 | 9:03 a.m. EDT + More

Higher education often comes with a high price tag, but if it's a graduate school degree the cost maybe worth it.

"The fastest growth is projected in occupations assigned to the master's degree level; theseoccupations are projected to grow by 21.7 percent," according to a 2012 report from the Bureau ofLabor Statistics that analyzed projected job growth between 2010 and 2020.

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Determining which graduate program to pursue can be difficult, but U.S. News can help. Releasedtoday, the 2015 Best Graduate Schools rankings include admissions information for those aspiring tostudy law, business, medicine, education and engineering, as well as specialties within each area.

Graduate schools in the five main disciplines ranked annually are evaluated on standardized testscores of newly enrolled students, opinions from experts on each program's quality, acceptancerates and other criteria. Because each graduate program is different,the rankings methodology varies across disciplines. The law school rankings, for example, take intoaccount a program's state bar passage rate, relative to the states average, while medical schools forresearch are judged by the total dollar amount of their research activity.

[Video: Learn how to use the rankings to make your graduate school decision .]

Business: There was little movement among the top business schools this year. The WhartonSchool at University of Pennsylvania moved up from third place to tie with HarvardUniversity and Stanford University for the No. 1 spot. The University of Chicago's Booth School ofBusiness moved up to No. 4 from sixth place, while the Kellogg School of Management atNorthwestern University fell from fourth to sixth place. The Sloan School ofManagement at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which tied for fourth last year, is now rankedNo. 5.

One of the most noteworthy changes came from the Lindner College of Business at University ofCincinnati, which climbed from a tie at No. 99 to a three-way tie at No. 60 this year.

Among part-time MBA programs, the Haas School of Business at University of California Berkeley,Chicago's Booth School of Business and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management again camein at Nos. 1, 2 and 3, respectively. The Anderson School of Management at the University ofCalifornia Los Angeles moved up one spot and is now tied with the Stern School of Business atNew York University for fourth place. The Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech had one of

the more significant drops, going from a tie at No. 34 to a five-way tie at No. 46.

[Photos: View the 20 top-ranked business schools .]

Law: Yale University and Harvard University again placed first and second, while StanfordUniversity dropped down to third among the top law schools . Former No. 11 Duke University Schoolof Law moved up to joi n University of Michigan Ann Arbor in a tie for the No. 10 spot. Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary inched closer to the top of the list, climbingnearly 10 spots to land at a tie for No. 24 with University of Washington . Meanwhile, Washington andLee University saw a significant drop, moving from a tie at No. 26 last year to a tie with University ofColorado Boulder at No. 43.

D.C. schools continue to top the rankings of part-time law programs, with GeorgetownUniversity and George Washington University coming in again at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively. Therewere significant changes elsewhere among top-tier schools. Loyola University Chicago , forexample, fell from a three-way tie at sixth place to tie for No. 23 with the Illinois Institute ofTechnology Chicago-Kent College of Law .

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