Philosophical Gourmet Report 2002-2004
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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Group 1 (1) (mean of 5.0)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (5.0)

Group 2 (2-5) (mean of 4.5)

Massachussetts Institute of Technology (4.5)
New York University (5.0)
Oxford University (4.5)
University of Notre Dame (4.0)

Group 3 (6-9) (mean of 4.0)

Australian National University (4.25)
Princeton University (4.0)
University of Pittsburgh (4.0)
University of St. Andrews (4.0)

Group 4 (10-20) (mean of 3.5)

Brown University (4.0)
Cambridge University (3.5)
City University of New York Graduate Center (3.5)
Columbia University (3.5)
Cornell University (4.0)
Syracuse University (3.5)
University of Arizona (3.5)
University of California, Los Angeles (3.0)
University of Massachussetts, Amherst (3.5)
University of Sheffield (3.5)
University of Texas, Austin (4.0)

Group 5 (21-37) (mean of 3.0)

Birkbeck College, University of London (3.0)
Monash University (3.0)
Ohio State University (3.0)
Stanford University (3.5)
University College London (3.0)
University of California, Davis (3.0)
University of California, Irvine (3.0)
University of Colorado, Boulder (3.0)
University of Durham (3.0)
University of Leeds (3.5)
University of Melbourne (2.75)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3.0)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.5)
University of Nottingham (3.0)
University of Sydney (3.0)
University of Virginia (3.0)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (3.0)

Also Notable (median of 3.0): Indiana University, Bloomington; Tulane University; University of California, Riverside; University of California, San Diego; University of California, Santa Barbara; 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.

Evaluators: Lynne Rudder Baker, Karen Bennett, Jose Bermudez, Ned Block, David Braddon-Mitchell, Alex Byrne, Mark Colyvan, Jan Cover, Tom Crisp, Michael Della Rocca, Daniel Devereux, Michael Fara, John Martin Fischer, Richard Feldman, Graeme Forbes, Bryan Frances, Tamar Gendler, Brie Gertler, Delia Graff, Bob Hale, John Hawthorne, Christopher Hill, Frank Jackson, Douglas Jesseph, Frederick Kroon, Bernard Linsky, E.J. Lowe, Graham MacDonald, Peter Menzies, Alex Miller, Daniel Nolan, Paul Norrdhof, Timtohy O'Connor, Alex Oliver, L.A. Paul, Michael Rea, Teresa Robertson, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Nathan Salmon, Jonathan Schaffer, Christopher Shields, Ted Sider, Susanna Siegel, Ernest Sosa, Daniel Stojar, Michael Tye, Gabriel Uzquiano, Peter van Inwagen, Brian Weatherson, Timothy Williamson, Crispin Wright, Jose Zalabardo. (Remember: Evaluators were not permitted to evaluate their own department or the department from which they received their graduate degree.)


 

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