An aerial photo of Kansas University’s campus as it looks in August 2015.

Kansas University again has 10 graduate schools and programs in the top 10 of public universities nationwide, a couple of them different from last year, according to the 2017 U.S. News and World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings.

The rankings, released Wednesday, put the following KU graduate schools and programs in the top 10 among public universities, according to a KU announcement:

1 — City Management and Urban Policy

1 — Special Education

3 — Public Management Administration

4 — Occupational Therapy

5 — Speech-Language Pathology

8 — School of Education

8 — Environmental Policy and Management

9 — Petroleum Engineering

9 — Physical Therapy

10 — Public Affairs

All but two of those programs also were in the top 10 of public universities last year.

Clinical Child Psychology was ranked fifth last year and dropped to 12th this year, and Audiology was ranked seventh last year and slipped to 20th this year, according to KU’s announcement.

Environmental Policy and Management and Petroleum Engineering are new to KU’s top-10 list this year.

In addition to being ranked No. 1 among public universities, KU’s City Management and Urban Policy program and its Special Education program also were ranked No. 1 among all universities public and private, according to U.S. News.

“Our students and scholars should take pride in this recognition of our graduate programs,” Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said in a statement. “As we celebrate our successes, we also remain focused on ways we can continue to educate leaders, build healthy communities, and make discoveries that change the world while continuing to improve the quality and reputation of our programs relative to our peers.”

The U.S. News Best Graduate Schools 2017 edition features information and rankings in business, law, education, engineering, medicine and nursing, as well as specialty rankings within each discipline, according to a U.S. News press release. The publication evaluates disciplines on factors such as employment rates for graduates, starting salaries and standardized test scores of newly enrolled students.

Here’s how U.S. News ranked those six graduate schools at KU, among public and private universities nationwide:

Business tied for 88th; Law tied for 65th; Education tied for 15th; Engineering tied for 98th; Medicine tied for 69th in the research category and 49th in the primary care category; and Nursing tied for 48th in the master’s category and 42nd in the doctor of nursing practice category.

Top 50 programs

U.S. News and World Report’s 2017 Best Graduate Schools rankings place the following KU schools and programs in the top 50 of public schools nationwide, according to KU:

1 . City Management and Urban Policy

1 . Special Education

3 . Public Management Administration

4 . Occupational Therapy

5 . Speech-Language Pathology

8 . School of Education

8 . Environmental Policy and Management

9 . Petroleum Engineering

9 . Physical Therapy

10 . Public Affairs

11 . Medicine – Family Medicine

12 . Clinical Child Psychology

12 . Social Work

13 . Public Finance & Budgeting

14 . Curriculum and Instruction

14 . Nursing – Midwifery

14 . Nursing – Anesthesia

20 . Audiology

20 . Pharmacy

21 . Clinical Psychology

22 . Medicine – Primary Care

23 . Psychology

25 . Healthcare Management

27 . History

28 . Nursing Practice (Doctor of Nursing Practice)

30 . Aerospace Engineering

31 . Nursing (Master’s)

31 . Political Science

33 . Civil Engineering

36 . English 36. School of Law

37 . Medicine – Research

37 . Fine Arts

37 . Earth Sciences – Geology

38 . Biological Sciences

41 . Mathematics

43 . Sociology

44 . Chemistry

45 . Economics

46 . Chemical Engineering

46 . Part-time MBA

49 . School of Business (MBA)