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The results are in! The top graduate schools in the country have been announced by the U.S. News Media Group  in the 2012 Best Graduate Schools, found online or on sale April 5, 2011. 

Here are the highlights! Are you thinking about grad school?

Best Business Schools

  1. Stanford University
  2. Harvard University
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  4. (Tie for 3rd with MIT) University of Pennsylvania
  5. Northwestern University
  6. (Tie for 5th with Northwestern) University of Chicago

Best Medical Schools: Research

  1. Harvard University
  2. University of Pennsylvania
  3. Johns Hopkins University
  4. Washington University in St. Louis
  5. Duke University
  6. (Tie for 5th with Duke) Stanford University

Best Law Schools

  1. Yale University
  2.  Harvard University
  3. Stanford University
  4. Columbia University
  5. University of Chicago

Best Medical Schools: Primary Care

  1. University of Washington
  2. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
  3. Oregon Health and Science University
  4. University of California–San Francisco
  5. (Tie for 4th with California) University of Colorado–Denver
  6. University of California–San Francisco
  7. (Tie for 5th with California) Yale University


Does your school (or dream grad school) make a top slot? 

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Meagan Templeton-Lynch is a junior Technical Journalism major with news/editorial and computer-mediated communication concentrations, with minors in English and sociology. She attends Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO but grew up in Montrose, CO on the western slope. She hopes to join the Peace Corps after graduation, and then go on to get a master's degree. Meagan wants to write or be an editor for a national magazine in the future. She loves writing and studying literature. She loves the mountains in the summer and goes hiking and camping as much as possible. She is a proud vegetarian, and says she will always be loyal to Colorado, no matter where she ends up.