Philosophical Gourmet Report 2011
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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Breakdown of Programs by Specialities

 

APPLIED ETHICS

Group 1 (1-7):  rounded mean of 4.0 (median, mode)

Duke University (3.5, 3.5)
Georgetown University (3.75, 3.5)
Harvard University (4, 5)
Oxford University (4.5, 5)
Princeton University (4, 4)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (4, 4)
University of Colorado, Boulder (4, 4)

Group 2 (8-16):  rounded mean of 3.5 (median, mode)

New York University (3.5, 4 & 3)
Rice University (3.5, 3.5)
Stanford University (3.25, 4)
University of Arizona (4, 4)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.5, 3.5)
University of Pennsylvania (3.5, 2)
University of Toronto (3.5, 3)
University of Utah (3.25, 3)
Yale University (3.75, 4 & 3.5)

Group 3 (17-38): rounded mean of 3.0 (median, mode)

Australian National University (3.5, 3.5)
*Bowling Green State University
City University of New York Graduate Center (3, 2.75)
London School of Economics (3, 3)
*Loyola University, Chicago
Queen’s University (Canada) (3.25, 3.5)
Syracuse University (3, 3.25)
#Texas A&M University
#University at Albany, State University of New York
University of California, Los Angeles (3, 2.75)
University of California, Riverside (2.75, 3.5)
University of Chicago (3, 3)
University of Maryland, College Park (3, 2.75)
University of Melbourne (3.5, 3.75)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3, 3.5)
*University of North Texas
University of Notre Dame (3, 3)
*University of Oregon
University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (2.75, 2.5)
University of Virginia (3, 3)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (3, 2.75)
Washington University, St. Louis (3, 2.75)

* inserted by Board
# based on 2004 results, in some cases with modest adjustments by the Advisory Board to reflect changes in staff in the interim

Evaluators: Donald Ainslie, Samantha Brennan, Allen Buchanan, Thomas Carson, Garrett Cullity, Julia Driver, Rebecca Kukla, Jeff McMahan, Christopher Morris, Alastair Norcross, David Schmidtz.

Remember: evaluators were not permitted to evaluate either their own department or the department from which they received their highest degree (PhD, DPhil, sometimes the BPhil).


 

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