STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Stony Brook University is cited fourteen times as being among the best in the nation in the current rankings of professional schools in US News & World Report's 2007 edition of “ America 's Best Graduate Schools.” These annual rankings reflect data from surveys of more than 1,200 programs and over 9,600 academicians and professionals conducted last year.

Stony Brook's specialty fields, Nuclear Physics ranked No. 4 and Geometry (categorized as a Mathematics specialty) ranked No. 7, just behind Columbia and ahead of Michigan , the University of Chicago , and NYU. Three other specialty fields, Political Methodology, Topology and American politics ranked 11th, 14th and 21st respectively.

The Physics program was ranked in a tie for 22nd with Johns Hopkins, and ahead of such universities as Rice, Rutgers, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Northwestern, NYU, and Virginia . The University's Mathematics program ranked 26th, tying with Rice and Purdue, and ahead of Carnegie Mellon, Ohio State, North Carolina, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Indiana . Stony Brook's Geosciences program ranked 28th and Computer Science and Materials Engineering ranked 34th. In addition, Stony Brook's programs in Biological Sciences ranked 40th, tying with Brown, Dartmouth, Rutgers, Virginia, and Purdue, among others, and ahead of Rice, Michigan State, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Arizona State and the Computer Engineering program ranked 49th. The School of Medicine —the only medical school in the region—was 50th in the US News rankings, tying with Tulane ,Florida , and Utah .

“These rankings reflect the quality of our faculty, our students, and their commitment to excellence,” said Stony Brook President Shirley Strum Kenny.

In the last year, Stony Brook has been ranked as the 136th best university in the world—out of more than 8,300—by the London Times Higher Education Supplement, in the top 50 in North America, and 10th among U.S. public universities. The University was also ranked among the top 152 universities in the world by the Institute for Higher Education in Shanghai. In addition, Stony Brook was ranked among the top 100 universities in North and Latin America.

A member of the elite Association of American Universities, Stony Brook University has earned a place among the top 2 percent of all the world's Universities in fewer than 50 years after its founding. This diverse campus attracts more than 22, 000 students from 45 states and 54 countries. With more than 100 majors and minors for undergraduates, an active research environment, Long Island 's only university-based teaching hospital, and innovative programs presenting a host of careers, Stony Brook offers all the advantages of a major university.