News & Announcements

                                                                                                       
With the highest ranking in its 23 year history as a division of the Johns Hopkins University, the School of Nursing (JHUSON) has for the second time placed in the very top tier of the nation's best nursing graduate schools.

According to the 2008 edition of U.S.News & World Report "America's Best Graduate Schools," deans, directors, and senior faculty from nursing schools nationwide have ranked the JHUSON master's programs as fourth among peer institutions.  In previous reports published in 1998, 2001, and 2004, the JHUSON ranking ranged from 5^th to 6^th and each year was tied with other institutions for these spots.

The School also gained recognition in the nursing specialties categories with advancement in Nursing Service Administration to seventh place-from a previous position of tenth. In the category of Community/Public Health, a hallmark of JHUSON nursing education, the School continued to be named second in the nation, a ranking it has held since the category was introduced in 2001.

In a school-wide announcement, Dr. Martha N. Hill, JHUSON Dean and Professor of Nursing, Medicine and Public Health, commented on the successful teamwork that brought the School to this new position.  She congratulated the JHUSON community, noting, "Each and every one of us has contributed to creating the academic excellence, the school-wide values, the local to global leadership, and the continued growth that has brought us this recognition."

The U.S.News & World Report "America's Best Graduate Schools" rankings process is conducted every three years for nursing graduate schools.  The methodology employed gathers opinion data from academic nursing experts who judge the overall quality of nursing graduate programs on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 as "marginal: and 5 as "outstanding."