Philosophical Gourmet Report 2009
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS

 

PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS

Group 1 (1) (rounded mean of 5.0) (median, mode)

New York University (5, 5)

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

Ohio State University (4.5, 4.75)

Group 3 (3-15) (rounded mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

Brown University (4, 4.25)
Carnegie-Mellon University (4.25, 4.5)
Oxford University (4, 4.5)
Princeton University (4, 4)
Stanford University (3.75, 3.75)
University of California, Berkeley (4, 4)
University of California, Irvine (4, 4)
University of California, Los Angeles (4, 3.75)
University of Notre Dame (4, 4)
University of Pittsburgh (4, 3)
University of Sheffield (4, 4)
University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (4, 4)
University of Western Ontario (4, 4)

Group 4 (16-26)  (rounded mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Cambridge University (3.5, 3.5)
City University of New York Graduate Center (3.5, 3.75)
Columbia University (3.25, 2.75)
Harvard University (3.75, 4)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4, 4)
McGill University (4, 4)
University of Arizona (3, 3)
University of Bristol (3.75, 3.25)
University of California, Davis (3.5, 3.5)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3.75, 4)
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul (3.5, 3.5)

Group 5 (27-41)  (rounded mean of 3.0) (median, mode)

Boston University (2.5, 2.5)
Cornell University (3, 3)
Indiana University, Bloomington (2.5, 2.5)
University College London (3.25, 3.5)
University of British Columbia (2.75, 2.5)
University of California, Riverside (3.25, 3.5)
University of Connecticut, Storrs (3, 3.5)
University of Glasgow (3, 2.5)
University of Illinois, Chicago (3, 3)
University of Melbourne (3, 2.75)
University of Miami (2.75, 3)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2.5, 2.5)
University of Texas, Austin (3, 3)
University of Toronto (2.75, 2.75)
University of York (2.75, 2.5)

Evaluators: Aldo Antonelli, Mark Colyvan, Robin Jeshion, Penelope Maddy, Gabriel Uzquiano, Crispin Wright.

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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