U.S. News is out with its annual survey of graduate programs at the nation's major universities, and the two big local schools are near the top in several categories. Well, kind of. In engineering USC is 8th, UCLA 13th, in law UCLA is 16th, USC 18th, and in business UCLA is 11th, USC 21st. If this were football, they’d be going to the Gator or Cotton bowls. While Harvard, Yale and MIT get much of the attention, both Berkeley and Stanford fare better when looking at all three disciplines. In engineering, Caltech ranks sixth. U.S. News bases its results on peer assessment, recruiter assessment, acceptance rate, and faculty, among other factors.

BUSINESS
1) Harvard
1) Stanford
3) University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
4) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
4) Northwestern University (Kellogg)
4) University of Chicago
7) Dartmouth College (Tuck)
7) University of California--Berkeley (Haas)
9) Columbia University
10) New York University (Stern)
11) UCLA (Anderson)
12) University of Michigan (Ross)
13) Yale
14) Cornell (Johnson)
14) Duke (Fuqua)
14) University of Virginia (Darden)
17) Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
18) University of Texas (McCombs)
19) University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
20) Indiana University (Kelley)
21) USC (Marshall)

LAW
1) Yale
2) Harvard
2) Stanford
4) Columbia
5) New York University
6) University of California--Berkeley
7) University of Chicago
7) University of Pennsylvania
9) Northwestern University
9) University of Michigan
9) University of Virginia
12) Cornell University
12) Duke
14) Georgetown
15) Vanderbilt
16) UCLA
16) University of Texas
18) USC
19) Washington University
20) George Washington University

ENGINEERING
1) MIT
2) Stanford
3) University of California--Berkeley
4) Georgia Institute of Technology
5) University of Illinois
6) Caltech
7) Carnegie Mellon
8) USC
9) Cornell
9) University of Michigan
11) University of California--San Diego
11) University of Texas
13) UCLA
14) Texas A&M
15) Purdue
15) University of Wisconsin--Madison
17) University of Maryland
18) Princeton
19) Northwestern
19) University of California--Santa Barbara