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Best PhD Programs for Mathematical Logic, 2016-17

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 Mathematical Logic for 2016-17, again by rough "clusters" of peer programs:

Group 1 (1-3)

Carnegie-Mellon University

Harvard University

City University of New York Graduate Center

Group 2 (4-9)

New York University

Princeton University

Oxford Universityy

Ohio State University

University of Bristol

University of California, Berkeley

Group 3 (10-19)

Columbia University (incl. Barnard)

Cornell University

Massachussetts Institute of Technology

Stanford University

University of California, Irvine

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Leeds

University of Melbourne

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

University of Notre Dame

(Note that the ANU, Monash, and Pittsburgh were close to Group 3.)

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