Philosophical Gourmet Report 2009
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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THEORY OF VALUE

 

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

Group 1 (1-2) (rounded mean of 4.5) (median, mode)

New York University (4.5, 5)
Oxford University (4.5, 5)

Group 2 (3-5)  (rounded mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

University of California, Los Angeles (4, 4.25)
University of Pennsylvania (4, 4)
Yale University (4.25, 5)

Group 3 (6-13)  (rounded mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Columbia University (3.5, 3.25)
Georgetown University (3.5, 3.5)
*McMaster University
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3.25, 3)
University of Chicago (3.75, 4.5)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (3.5, 3.75)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (4, 4)
University of Southern California (3.5, 3.25)
University of Toronto (3.25, 2.5)

Group 4 (14-19)  (rounded mean of 3.0) (median, mode)

Cambridge University (3, 2.5)
King’s College, London (2.75, 3.5)
University of Arizona (3, 3)
University of California, Berkeley (3, 3)
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul (2.75, 3)
University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (3.5, 3.5)

Evaluators: Brian Bix, David Brink, Ruth Chang, John Deigh, Gerald Dworkin, William Edmundson, Alvin Goldman, Matthew Kramer, Brian Leiter, Dennis Patterson, Arthur Ripstein, Connie Rosati, A. John Simmons, John Tasioulas, W.J. Waluchow.

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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