Temple’s School of Medicine and Beasley School of Law rose significantly in the 2012 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of graduate schools, on newsstands now.

The Beasley School of Law went up 11 places to 61st. As in years past, the school is ranked highly in the specialty categories: second in trial advocacy; seventh in legal research and writing; 11th in international law and 10th in part-time programs. The school also ranked 61st in the diversity of its students, up from 66th last year.

The School of Medicine made the top 50 best medical research programs, ranking 45th, up from 52nd last year.

“One of our goals has been to elevate Temple University School of Medicine in national rankings as a means of demonstrating our progress, said Dean John M. Daly. “These rankings are not an end in themselves, but can provide a measure and benchmark for achievement. Nine years ago, TUSM was ranked 86th by the National Institutes of Health and was not ranked at all by U.S. News and World Report. I am pleased that our progress has been recognized.”

Temple’s College of Education stayed in the top 50, ranking 46th. Fox School of Business’ Healthcare Management program ranked 24th, up from 28th when last ranked in 2007.

Each year, U.S. News ranks business, education, engineering, medicine and law school programs based on a survey each of the schools completes and peer rankings by graduate school deans and college deans. Rankings of specialty areas such as trial advocacy are based on rankings by graduate school deans and college deans.

Other U.S. News rankings for Temple schools, colleges and programs can be found on the publication’s website.