• Aerospace Engineering specialty ranked 10^th
• Computer Engineering specialty ranked 21^st

U.S. News also ranks "a list of schools with outstanding examples of academic programs that are believed to lead to student success." There are eight categories, with UM ranked in these five. Schools of all sizes make up these rankings. (UM is one of only four schools to be ranked in as many as five categories.)
• First-Year Experiences (53 ranked schools, no numerical rankings): "Orientation can only go so far in making a freshman feel connected. Many schools now build curriculum first-year seminars or other academic programs that bring small groups of students together with faculty or staff on a regular basis."

• Learning Communities (35 ranked schools): In learning communities, students typically take two or more linked courses as a group and get to know one another and their professors well. Some learning communities are also residential."

• Service Learning (29 ranked schools): "In service-learning programs, required (or-for-credit) volunteer work in the community is an instructional strategy. What's learned in the field bolsters what happens in class and vice versa."

• Study Abroad (62 ranked schools): "Programs at these schools involve substantial academic work for credit--a year, a semester, or an intensive experience equal l to a course --and considerable interaction with the local culture."

• Undergraduate Research/Creative Projects (62 ranked schools): "Independently or in small teams, and mentored by a faculty member, students do intensive and self-directed research or creative work that results in an original scholarly paper or other product that can be formally presented on or off campus."

Doctorate Degrees

• African American degrees (traditonally white institutions), No. 13
• Total Minority degrees, No. 20
• Total Asian American degrees, No. 26
• Hispanic Degrees, No. 44

Total Minority Area & Ethnic Studies, No. 3

• Total Minority Education, No. 17
• African American Education, No. 35
• Asian American Education, No. 6

• Total Minority Engineering, No. 10
• Afican American Engineering, No. 1
• Asian American Engineering, No. 30
• Hispanic Enginering, No. 8

• Total Minority English, No. 15

• Total Minority Mathematics, No. 1
• Total Asian American Mathematics, No. 1

• Total Minority Physical Sciences, No. 28

• Total Minority Psychology, No. 46
• African American Psychology, No. 21

• Total Minority Social Sciences and History, No. 36

Master's Degrees

• Total Minority Master's, No. 71
• African American Master's, No. 74
• Asian American Master's, No. 47

• African American Biology, No. 30

• Asian American Business, No. 44

• Total Minority Engineering, No. 25
• African American Engineering, No. 6

• Asian American English Language & Literature/Letters, No. 17

• Total Minority Mathematics, No. 50

• Total Minority Physical Sciences, No. 49

• Total Minority Social Sciences & History, No. 32
• African American Social Sciences & History, No. 22
• Hispanic Social Sciences & History, No. 40

UM is again one of the strongest producers of minority degrees among all colleges and universities, especially on the list of Traditionally White Universities.

UM increased its minority undergraduate degrees, from 1820 to 1871. African American undergraduate degrees dipped slightly, 674 to 669, but UM is No. 7 among all U.S. TWI institutions and No. 1 among the U.S. News & World Reports' Top 25 Public Universities.

Asian American degrees rose from 836 to 877; Hispanic degrees rose from 295 to 310.

• Total Minority Degrees No. 21, 1,871

• African American Degrees, (traditionally white institutions) No. 7
• African American Degrees, No. 18, 669
• Asian American Degrees, No. 18, 877
• Hispanic Degrees, No. 69, 295

• African American Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, No. 25
• Asian American Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, No. 11
• Hispanic Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, No. 23

• Total Minority Area, Culture & Gender Studies, No. 41
• African American Area, Culture & Gender Studies, No. 19
• Asian American Area, Culture & Gender Studies, No. 39

• Total Minority Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 12
• African American Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 3
• Asian American Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 15
• Hispanic Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 43

• Total Minority Business, Management, Marketing & Related Support Services, No. 41
• Asian American Business, Management, Marketing & Related Support Services, No. 20
• Total Minority Computer and Information Sciences and Support Service, No. 15
• Asian American Computer and Information Sciences and Support Service, No. 7
• Total Minority Education, No. 39
• African American Education, No. 49
• Asian American Education, No. 7

• Total Minority Engineering, No. 15
• African American Engineering, No. 9
• Asian American Engineering, No. 16
• Hispanic Engineering, No. 33

• Total Minority English Language, Literature/Letters, No. 40
• African American English Language, Literature/Letters, No. 19
• Asian American English Language, Literature/Letters, No. 30

• Minority Mathematics and Statistics, No. 34
• African American Mathematics & Statistics, No. 27
• Asian American Mathematics and Statistics, No. 27

• Asian American Psychology, No. 34

• Minority Social Sciences & History, No. 7
• African American Social Sciences & History, No. 2
• Asian American Social Sciences, No. 10
• Hispanic Social Sciences, No. 27

• The magazine, which details technological advances, applications and investment opportunities in micro and nanotechnology, ranks UM No. 19 on a list of the 50 schools who responded to the magazine's survey. The rankings were weighted by peer recommendation. In a sub-category, Education, UM was No. 6