U.S. News 2012 Graduate Rankings Include Three DAAP Programs

Three programs in the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) are nationally ranked in the recently released 2012 rankings of graduate programs by U.S. News & World Report.

UC’s graduate industrial design program was ranked

No. 6

in the nation, ahead of schools like Cranbrook Academy of Art, California College of the Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Arizona State University and the University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign.

UC’s graduate graphic design program was ranked

No. 12

in the nation. The program was ranked alongside of the Parsons The New School for Design and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

UC’s masters of fine arts (MFA) was ranked

No. 45

in the nation. UC’s MFA program was tied at No. 45 with Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Arizona and the Herron School of Art & Design.

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