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2017-18 PGR Top 25 Programs in the Anglophone World

Christopher Pynes

Moving to the front from December 14th with an update and correction due to a transcription error.

Professor Brogaard and I released the U.S. Top 50 results of the PRG survey last week. The top 25 programs in the Anglophone word are listed below the fold. Like before the overall mean is listed while the median, mode, and confidence intervals, along with the full results, will be provided on the new PGR site hosted by Wiley-Blackwell.

1

NYU

4.9

2

Oxford
Rutgers

4.5

4

Princeton

4.3

5

Michigan
Pittsburgh

4.2

7

Yale

4.1

8

MIT
Southern California

4.0

10

Berkeley
Columbia
Harvard
Stanford
Toronto
UCLA

3.9

16

CUNY
North Carolina

3.8

18

Arizona

3.7

19

Cambridge
Notre Dame

3.6

21

ANU
Brown
Texas

3.5

24

St. Andrews/Stirling
UC San Diego

3.4    

 

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