Following up on this post, and once again taking account of faculty changes since the fall 2014 PGR, here's an attempted update of the top (3.5 or higher) programs for Applied Ethics for 2016-17, again by rough "clusters" of peer programs:

Group 1 (1-2)

Harvard University

Oxford University

Group 2 (3-9)

Duke University

New York University

Princeton University

Texas A&M University

University of Pennsylvania

University of Toronto

Yale University

Group 3 (10-28)

Arizona State University

Australian National University

Cambridge University

City University of New York Graduate Center

Georgetown University

King's College, London

McGill University

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Rice University

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Syracuse University

University of Arizona

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Chicago

University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Miami

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

University of Virginia