Stanford is the only university in the country listed in the top 10 of all five major graduate school disciplines, according to the 2008 U.S. News & World Report rankings released Friday.

The magazine, which assesses more than 1,200 programs nationwide and factors in such criteria as undergraduate GPA and graduate employment percentage into its rankings formula, placed the University’s business, law, medicine, engineering and education programs highly in its annual report.

The Graduate School of Business (GSB) was ranked second behind Harvard. U.S. News — which considered 66 business schools in this year’s rankings — awarded the GSB an overall score of 99 while Harvard Business School garnered a perfect 100.

The Law School tied with Harvard for second, one spot behind first place Yale. In its appraisal of 191 law schools nationwide, U.S. News gave Stanford and Harvard 90 points while Yale earned 100.

Among the 79 engineering schools evaluated by the magazine, the Stanford School of Engineering collected 99 points to come in second place behind MIT, which acquired a perfect score.

The School of Education was also ranked second in the country, surpassing every program except Columbia’s Teachers College, whose 100 points narrowly exceeded Stanford’s 98 in the magazine’s assessment of 61 education schools.

Only the Medical School was listed outside of the top five in the recent rankings. In its consideration of 64 of the nation’s schools of medicine, U.S. News awarded the Stanford Medical School a seventh place ranking. First place Harvard earned a perfect score, placing it well above even second place Johns Hopkins, which garnered 82 points.

For more on this year’s rankings, visit http://www.usnews.com/grad.