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The “Top Ten” Faculties in Ethics in the English-Speaking World

"Ethics" here includes normative ethics, practical reasoning, and moral psychology, but excludes applied ethics and metaethics, which were ranked separately.   In the specialty rankings, faculties are grouped according to their mean score rounded to the nearest .5.  The median and mode scores are listed in parentheses after the school name; within a group, the faculties are listed alphabetically.

Group 1 (1) (rounded mean of 5.0)

Harvard University (5, 5)

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

New York University (5, 5)

Oxford University (4.5, 5)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (4.5, 4.5)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (4.5, 4.5)

Group 3 (6-11) (rounded mean of 4.0)

Princeton University (4, 4)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (4, 4.5)

University of Arizona (4, 4)

University of California, Los Angeles (4, 4)

University of Toronto (4, 4)

Yale University (4.25, 4)

Evaluators:  Julia Annas, Christopher Bobonich, Michael Bratman, David Brink, Thomas Carson, Ruth Chang, Roger Crisp, Garrett Cullity, Jonathan Dancy, Justin D’Arms, John Deigh, John Doris, James Dreier, Julia Driver, Gerald Dworkin, John Martin Fischer, Owen Flanagan, Richard Fumerton, Gerald Gaus, Berys Gaut, Brad Hooker, Terence Irwin, P.J. Ivanhoe, Shelly Kagan, Paul Katsafanas, Nico Kolodny, Colin Macleod, Ron Mallon, Jeff McMahan, David McNaughton, Christopher Morris, Shaun Nichols, Alastair Norcross, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Otsuka, Thomas Pogge, C.D.C. Reeve, Bernard Reginster, Arthur Ripstein, Carolina Sartorio, Geoffrey  Sayre-McCord, David Schmidtz, Mark Schroeder, Stephen Stich, Wayne Sumner, John Tasioulas, Valerie Tiberius, Peter Vallentyne, Bryan van Norden, Ralph Wedgwood, Catherine Wilson, Jonathan Wolff, David Wong.

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