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

 

APPLIED ETHICS

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

Georgetown University (4.5, 5)
Harvard University (4.5, 5)

Group 2 (3-7)  (rounded mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

Oxford University (4, 4)
Princeton University (4, 4)
Rice University (3.75, 3.25)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (4.5, 4.75)
University of Toronto (3.75, 3.75)

Group 3 (8-23)  (rounded mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Arizona State University (3.5, 3.25)
*Bowling Green State University
Duke University (3.5, 3.5)
New York University (3.75, 4.25)
Queen’s University, Ontario (3.75, 4)
University of Arizona (3.5, 3.5)
University of Chicago (3.25, 2.75)
University of Colorado, Boulder (3.75, 4)
University of Maryland, College Park (4, 4)
University of Melbourne (3.5, 3.5)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3.25, 2.5)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.5, 3.5)
University of Notre Dame (3.25, 2.75)
University of Pennsylvania (3.5, 3.5)
University of Virginia (3.5, 3.5)
Washington University, St. Louis (3.25, 3)

Group 4 (24-44)  (rounded mean of 3.0)

Australian National University (2.75, 3.5)
Brown University (3, 3)
Carnegie-Mellon University (2.5, 2.5)
City University of New York Graduate Center (2.5, 2.5)
Cornell University (3, 2.75)
Florida State University (3, 2.5)
Indiana University, Bloomington (2.5, 2.5)
*Loyola University, Chicago
Stanford University (3, 3)
Syracuse University (3, 3)
#Texas A&M University
#University at Albany, State University of New York
University of Auckland (2.5, 2.5)
University of California, Los Angeles (3.25, 3.25)
University of California, San Diego (2.75, 3)
*University of North Texas
University of Reading (3, 3)
University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (2.75, 4)
University of Utah (3, 3)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (3.5, 3.5)
Yale University (2.5, 2.5)

* 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, Thomas Carson, Garrett Cullity, Julia Driver, Jeff McMahan, Christopher Morris, Alastair Norcross, Thomas Pogge, 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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