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

 

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

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

Oxford University (5, 5)

Group 2 (2-4) (mean of 4.5) (median, mode)

Cambridge University (4.5, 4.75)
Princeton University (5, 5)
University of Toronto (4.5, 4.5)

Group 3 (5-7) (mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

Cornell University (4, 4)
University of Arizona (4, 4)
University of Chicago (4, 4)

Group 4 (8-12) (mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

King’s College, London (3.5, 3 & 4)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3.5, 4)
University of Pittsburgh (3.5, 3.5)
University of Texas, Austin (4, 4)
Yale University (4, 4)

Group 5 (13-22) (mean of 3.0) (median, mode)

Brown University (3.5, 4)
Harvard University (3, 3)
McGill University (3.5, 3.5)
Northwestern University (3.5, 3.5)
Stanford University (3, 4)
University of California, Berkeley (3, 3.5)
University of California, Los Angeles (3, 4)
University of Pennsylvania (3, 4)
University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (3.5, 3.5)
University of Virginia (3, 3)

Note that Northwestern, Chicago, and Illinois/Chicago cooperate in the supervision of graduate students in ancient philosophy; for more details, students should talk to faculty and students involved in their "Consortium."

Evaluators: Julia Annas, Rachel Barney, Hugh Benson, Tad Brennan, Christopher Bobonich, Victor Caston, Daniel Devereux, Gail Fine, Mark Gifford, Brad Inwood, Terence Irwin, Christopher Janaway, Thomas Johansen, Lindsay Judson, Mohan Matthen, Martha Nussbaum, C.D.C. Reeve, David Sedley, Christopher Shields, Allan Silverman, Nicholas Smith, Gisela Striker.

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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