Editor’s Note: This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “The Future of Graduate Education,” available in the Chronicle Store. It’s dicey to predict the future in the best of times.

In the 2024 edition of Best Graduate Schools, U.S. News and World Report has ranked 22 University of Delaware graduate programs among the best in the nation, including 10 in the top 50. More than half ...

Rochester Institute of Technology graduate degree programs are among the best in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report annual statistical survey of graduate programs. RIT graduate ...