Philosophical Gourmet Report 2002-2004
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

 
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ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

Group 1 (1) (mean of 5.0)

Oxford University (5.0)

Group 2 (2-4) (mean of 4.5)

Cambridge University (5.0)
Cornell University (4.5)
Princeton University (5.0)

Group 3 (5-7) (mean of 4.0)

University of Arizona (4.0)
University of Texas, Austin (4.25)
University of Toronto (4.0)

Group 4 (8-15) (mean of 3.5)

Harvard University (4.0)
King's College, London (4.0)
Northwestern University (4.0)
Stanford University (3.5)
University of California, Berkeley (3.5)
University of California, Davis (4.0)
University of Chicago (3.75)
University of Pittsburgh (3.5)

Group 5 (16-23) (mean of 3.0)

Brown University (3.5)
McGill University (3.5)
University of California, Irvine (3.5)
University of Edinburgh (3.0)
University of Illinois, Chicago (3.0)
University of Pennsylvania (3.25)
University of St. Andrews (3.0)
University of Washington, Seattle (3.0)

Also Notable (median of 3.0): Georgetown University; Texas A&M University; University of British Columbia; University of California, Los Angeles; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Yale University.

In addition, the aggregated faculties of the colleges making up the University of London received a rounded mean score of 4.0 and a median score of 4.0.

In the judgment of the Advisory Board, the following programs that were not part of the survey ought to be considered by students interested in this area: Emory University.

Note that Northwestern, Chicago, and Illinois/Chicago cooperate in the supervision of graduate students in ancient philosophy; for more details, students should talk to faculty and students involved in their "Consortium."

Evaluators: Julia Annas, Hugh Benson, Christopher Bobonich, Sarah Broadie, Daniel Devereux, Gail Fine, R.J. Hankinson, Brad Inwood, Lindsay Judson, Mohan Matthen, Patrick Maynard, Margaret McCabe, Stephen Menn, Martha Nussbaum, Francis Jeffrey Pelletier, C.D.C. Reeve, Christopher Shields, Gisela Striker. (Remember: Evaluators were not permitted to evaluate their own department or the department from which they received their graduate degree.)


 

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