The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill appears on multiple lists of schools, degree programs and specialty areas newly ranked in 2014 by U.S. News and World Report for the 2015 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” Following are the new UNC rankings and specialty listings that are currently available from the magazine, including those in the College of Arts and Sciences:

College of Arts and Sciences (Ph.D. programs in the sciences)

• Chemistry, tied for 15th; (Analytical chemistry, 2nd, and Inorganic chemistry, tied for 8th)
• Statistics, tied for 20th (Biostatistics, tied for 12th)
• Computer science, tied for 25th
• Biology, 26th
• Mathematics, tied for 28th
• Physics, tied for 39th
• Earth sciences, tied for 54th

Public affairs

UNC has master’s degree programs and specialty areas within several units based in the School of Government, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Gillings School of Global Public Health that are ranked as part of a public affairs category.

Overall

• Tied for 23rd

Specialty areas:

• City management and urban policy, 6th
• Environmental policy and management, 12th
• Health policy and management, 14th
• Public policy analysis, tied for 20th
• Public management administration, 25th
• Public finance and budgeting, tied for 29th

 School of Medicine

Overall

• Primary care, 2nd
• Research, 22nd

Specialty areas

• Family medicine, 2nd
• Rural medicine, tied for 6th
• AIDS, tied for 8th

Kenan-Flagler Business School

Overall

• 19th (master of business administration degree programs)

Specialty Areas

• Executive MBA, tied for 9th
• Accounting, 10th

School of Law

In a new category, the UNC School of Law was also listed among “the most diverse law schools.”

Overall

• Tied for 31st

School of Education

Overall

• Tied for 36th

Gillings School of Global Public Health (schools of engineering)

Although UNC has no engineering school, the department of environmental sciences and engineering is based in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and perennially appears on this list of top engineering programs.

Overall

• Tied for 78th

Complete rankings information is posted on U.S. News Graduate School Compass. Rankings highlights are published online and in the 2015 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools” by U.S. News Media Group, available on newsstands at the end of March.

U.S. News first ranked graduate program in 1987 and has done so annually since 1990. Business, education, engineering, law and medicine are ranked annually based on expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research and students, according to U.S. News officials. Other disciplines and specialties in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and other areas, including selected health specialists, are ranked periodically. Those rankings are based solely on the ratings of peer academic experts, including deans, program directors and faculty.

In addition to the new rankings, U.S. News republishes, on its website and in the guidebook, older rankings that are based on peer ratings in various health disciplines, nursing schools and Ph.D. programs in the sciences.