<p>*The latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s graduate-program rankings, issued in April 2004, identifies Maxwell as the nation's top school of public affairs.</p>
<p>U.S. News has published graduate-program rankings triennially since 1995. The Maxwell School of Syracuse University has topped all four public affairs listings published thus far.*</p>
<p>Maxwell</a> School of Syracuse University</p>
<p>The article is dated; Maxwell was #1 once again in the 2007 rankings as well.</p>