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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HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY (incl. WITTGENSTEIN)

Group 1 (1-4) (mean of 4.5)

Harvard University (4.5)
Oxford University (5.0)
University of Chicago (4.5)
University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (4.5)

Group 2 (5-13) (mean of 4.0)

Boston University (4.0)
Northwestern University (4.0)
Stanford University (4.0)
University of California, Berkeley (4.25)
University of California, Los Angeles (4.0)
University of Illinois, Chicago (4.0)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (4.5)
University of Notre Dame (4.0)
University of Pittsburgh (4.25)

Group 3 (14-23) (mean of 3.5)

Cambridge University (3.5)
Columbia University (3.5)
Indiana University, Bloomington (3.5)
University of California, Irvine (3.5)
University of California, Riverside (3.5)
University of Reading (3.5)
University of Sheffield (4.0)
University of Southern California (3.5)
University of St. Andrews (4.0)
University of Texas, Austin (3.5)

Group 4 (24-34) (mean of 3.0)

City University of New York Graduate Center (3.0)
King's College, London (3.5)
New York University (3.0)
Princeton University (3.5)
Tri-University Ph.D. Program ( Canada ) (3.5)
University College London (3.5)
University of British Columbia (3.0)
University of Glasgow (3.5)
University of Iowa (3.5)
University of Toronto (3.5)
University of York (3.0)

Also Notable (median of 3.0): Arizona State University; Birkbeck College, University of London; Carnegie-Mellon University; Johns Hopkins University; McGill University; Ohio State University; State University of New York, Buffalo; University of Alberta; University of Auckland; University of Calgary; University of California, Davis; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Leeds; University of Sydney.

In addition, the aggregated faculties of the colleges making up the University of London received a rounded mean score of 3.0 and a median score of 3.5.

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: Trinity College Dublin.

Evaluators: David Bell, Warren Goldfarb, A.C. Grayling, Jane Heal, Michael Kremer, Robert May, Cheryl Misak, Stephen Mulhall, Alva Noe, Dennis Patterson, Thomas Ricketts, Ian Rumfitt, Mark Sainsbury, Jason Stanley. (Remember: Evaluators were not permitted to evaluate their own department or the department from which they received their graduate degree.)


 

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