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Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – Harvard University remains the nation’s leading medical school but was overtaken by Stanford as the number one business school in the 2012 rankings of the U.S. News & World Report. Among law schools, a new school has moved up into the top 14 for the first time.

Yale maintained its ranking as the best law school for the 20th consecutive year. Harvard Law School kept second place for another year, as did all the others in the top 5, Stanford, Columbia, and the University of Chicago Law School.

A new school entered the top 14, which has featured an elite group of the same schools in different orders since the rankings began nearly three decades ago. The University of Texas-Austin School of Law broke into the T14, as it is known in the legal community, tying with the Georgetown Law Center in 14th place.

Among medical schools, Harvard is still in first place, followed by the University of Pennsylvania, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.

Duke University shares fifth place with three other schools: Stanford, the University of California in San Francisco, and Yale. The University of Washington and Columbia University round out the top 10 medical schools.

Harvard slipped one notch to second place in U.S. News’ list of best graduate business schools, making way for Stanford to occupy first place. The two schools tied last year for the top spot.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) and University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School both came in third, followed by Northwestern University (Kellogg), which also tied with the University of Chicago (Booth) for fifth place.

Dartmouth and the University of California Berkeley (Haas) share seventh place, followed by Columbia and New York University (Stern).

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