This follows a pattern in the specialty rankings, namely, that the highest-ranked programs have two or more tenured faculty in the area.  The top-ranked program, Arizona, has a remarkable line-up of prominent political philosophers, including Thomas Christiano, Jerry Gaus, David Schmidtz, and Steven Wall.

Group 1 (1):  rounded mean of 4.5 (median, mode)

University of Arizona (4.5, 4.5)

Group 2 (2-9):  rounded mean of 4.0 (median, mode)

Brown University (4, 4)

Duke University (4, 4)

Harvard University (4.25, 5)

New York University (4.5, 4.5)

Oxford University (4, 5)

Princeton University (4, 4)

Stanford University (4, 4)

Yale University (4, 4)

Group 3 (10-20):  rounded mean of 3.5 (median, mode)

Australian National University (3.5, 4)

Queen’s University (Canada) (3.5, 4)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3.5, 3.75)

University College London (3.5, 3.5)

University of California, San Diego (4, 4)

University of Chicago (3.5, 3.5)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (4, 4)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (4, 4)

University of Pennsylvania (3.5, 3.5)

University of Toronto (3.5, 4)

University of Virginia (4, 4)

Evaluators:  Marcia Baron, Christopher Bertram, Cristina Bicchieri, Brian Bix, Chris Bobonich, James Bohman, Samantha Brennan, David Brink, Allen Buchanan, Roger Crisp, John Deigh, Julia Driver, Gerald Dworkin, William Edmundson, David Enoch, David Estlund, Gordon Finlayson, Marilyn Friedman, John, Gardner, Gerald Gaus, Michael Giudice, Leslie J. Green, Brad Hooker, Shelly Kagan, Matthew Kramer, Jefferson McMahan, Lionel McPherson, Christopher Morris, Alastair Norcross, Calvin Normore, Brian O'Connor, Mathias Risse, Michael Rosen, G. Sayre-McCord, David Schmidtz, Stefan Sciaraffa, Tommie Shelby, John Simmons, Wayne Sumner, Robert Talisse, John Tasioulas, Larry Temkin, Peter Vallentyne, Wil Waluchow, Georgia Warnke, Paul Weithman, Jonathan Wolff