From BU Today:

Eight Boston University departments earned top-10 rankings this week in the publication’s Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, earning two number-one spots on a list of nearly 400 institutions. The third annual index ranks research universities according to the productivity — publications, grants, and awards — of their faculty in different disciplines. In the 2006 academic year, BU’s French language and literature and mass communications/media studies departments earned first-place ratings, followed by second place for English language and literature, fourth for bioinformatics and computational biology, sixth in social work/social welfare, seventh in mathematics, ninth in music specialties, and tenth in biostatistics.

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