The Cornell College of Engineering has the ninth-best graduate program in the country, up one spot from last year's rankings, according to U.S. News & World Report in its survey released online in early April.

The rankings are based on expert opinions about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research and students, according to the magazine. The data come from surveys of more than 1,200 programs and 14,000 academics and professionals, conducted in fall 2007.

Also moving up one spot on the list was Cornell Law School, ranked No. 12 this year. The Johnson School was ranked No. 14 among graduate business programs, unchanged from last year's ranking, and Weill Cornell Medical College was ranked No. 18 among medical schools, down from No. 15.

Other top graduate programs at Cornell included in the magazine's 2008 rankings are: computer science, 6; physics, 7; and math, 13.

For more information, including listings of previous years' rankings, go to http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad.