We're Number 8

The Dartmouth Medical School recently joined the ranks of the nation's top ten medical schools as chosen by U.S. News & World Report. Last year DMS didn't even make the top 50 of the 70 schools that were ranked. Once reason for the sudden rise to the top ranks: a renewed emphasis on the part of both the school and the magazine on the importance of graduating primary-care physicians. Med school dean Andrew G. Wallace said, "To be recognized as one of the best should make everyone at Dartmouth feel good. We have placed substantial emphasis on the general education of future physicians, and more of our graduates entering primary care is an important dividend of that investment. What pleases me even more is to see that the quality of our students, and of the faculty, weighs heavily in these rankings."

Meanwhile the Amos Tuck School of Business was also ranked eighth in U.S. News' business school survey. Tuck scored 97 out of a possible 100 points. "There are seven schools between us and perfection," says Dean Paul Danos, adding that among the top-ranked schools there are very small differences in quality.