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Posted at 1:44 a.m., Tuesday, April 15, 2008

UH graduate programs recognized nationally

Advertiser Staff

Several University of Hawai'i at Manoa graduate programs rank among the nation's top 10 in a newly released listing of programs based on faculty productivity.

The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, partly financed by the State University of New York at Stony Brook and published by Academic Analytics, a private company, rates faculty members' scholarly output at 8,182 doctoral programs at 387 of the nation's universities.

Highly-ranked UH Manoa programs are:

  • Oceanography, Physical Sciences – ranks 2nd in the nation (behind top-ranked UC- Santa Barbara and ahead of UC-San Diego and University of Southern California); • Marine Sciences – ranked 4th; • Teacher Education (second-language acquisition) – ranked 6th; • Geophysics – 7th; • Epidemiology – 8th.

    More information is available at the Academic Analytics website: http://www.academicanalytics.com/TopSchools/TopPrograms.aspx