U.S. News and World Report has released its 2006 rankings of graduate and professional schools. Here are some highlights:

Business Schools1. Harvard
2. Penn (Wharton), Stanford---tie
3. MIT (Sloan)
4. Northwestern (Kellogg)

Law Schools1. Yale
2. Harvard
3. Stanford
4. Columbia
5. NYU

Medical Schools1. Harvard
2. Johns Hopkins
3. Washington U.
4. Penn
5. UC-San Francisco

engineering Schools1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. UC-Berkeley
4. Georgia Tech, Illinois---tie

Education Schools1. Harvard
2. UCLA
3. Stanford
4. Columbia (Teachers College)
5. Vanderbilt (Peabody)