Ranking Among the Best
Baylor graduate and professional programs were among those nationally ranked in the 2026 Best Graduate Schools rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Baylor serves more than 5,600 graduate students in more than 100 programs in multiple disciplines through its Graduate School and online and hybrid professional education programs.
The annual Best Graduate School rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinion about program excellence and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research and students and their post-graduate outcomes.
Baylor Law School
Baylor Law School’s renowned Trial Advocacy program again is nationally recognized at No. 3. Ranked by U.S. News in the Top 5 yearly since 2010, the program teaches all aspects of successful trial advocacy, from trial and litigation procedures to persuasive storytelling and the effective use of courtroom technologies.
Overall, Baylor Law was one of the University’s biggest movers in graduate school rankings, jumping nine places into the nation’s Top 40 law schools at No. 34.
Louise Herrington School of Nursing
In the Best Nursing Schools rankings, the Doctor of Nursing Practice program in Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing in Dallas landed in the Top 40 nationally at No. 37.
In specialty rankings, two Baylor LHSON graduate nursing programs also are among the top programs in their fields. The U.S. Army-Baylor graduate program in anesthesia nursing (USAGPAN) ranked at No. 3 and the nurse-midwifery program at No. 16.
Hankamer School of Business
Among Best Business Schools, the full-time M.B.A. program in Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business ranked No. 67 overall, highlighted by a No. 14 ranking for the online M.B.A. program in marketing and the graduate program in entrepreneurship, which is ranked No. 22 nationally.
In addition, U.S. News highlighted a pair of business graduate programs that moved up among the nation’s Top 15 in healthcare administration: The U.S. Army-Baylor master’s degree program in healthcare management at No. 10 and the M.B.A. in healthcare administration at No. 13.
Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences
Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences has several highly ranked programs in the latest U.S. News rankings, including:
The U.S. Army-Baylor Doctor of Physical Therapy program at No. 10;
The innovative hybrid Doctor of Physical Therapy program at No. 40;
The hybrid Doctor of Occupational Therapy program, which jumped up 11 places to No. 41;
The U.S. Army-Baylor Doctor of Occupational Therapy at No. 51;
The public health graduate program at No. 74 for both its master’s degree and a doctorate in public health in epidemiology or social and behavioral health science; and
The speech-language pathology graduate program at No. 78 for its master’s degree (residential and online) and Ph.D. in communications sciences and disorders.