U.S. News & World Report has issued its graduate school rankings, putting some programs at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University in the top 25.

U.S. News, which has done graduate program rankings since 1987, looks at business, education, engineering, law and medical schools as well as some specialty programs within the schools. It also ranked some social sciences and humanities.

For the first time, Carnegie Mellon University had four of its engineering programs in the top 10: computer engineering, fourth; electrical/electronic/communications, eighth; environmental/environmental health, eighth; and mechanical, 10th. The engineering school as a whole ranked ninth.

CMU also ranked 17th among business schools, with its information systems and production/operations programs both ranking second and supply chain/logistics seventh.

Other CMU rankings included psychology, ninth, with cognitive psychology ranked second and experimental psychology fifth; and economics, 20th.

Some of the other rankings:

Pitt's medical school, 16th in research and fifth in women's health; pharmacy, 23rd. With a rank of 49th, Pitt's engineering school made the top 50 for the first time.

Penn State at University Park, criminology, seventh; sociology, 17th, with sociology of population ranked fifth; engineering school, 19th with programs of industrial/manufacturing ranked third and materials eighth. Also, program of developmental psychology ranked sixth; industrial and organization psychology ranked fourth and education programs of administration/supervision, counseling/personnel services and vocational/technical in the top six.