The (revised) chart belows shows the movement in the overall rankings over the last decade (from the 2006 Report), to the new 2017 results that Christopher Pynes revised yesterday last week.
|
School name |
2017 PGR rank |
2006 PGR rank |
|
New York University |
1 |
1 |
|
Rutgers University, New Brunswick |
2 |
2 |
|
Princeton University |
3 |
3 |
|
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
4 |
3 |
|
University of Pittsburgh |
4 |
5 |
|
Yale University |
6 |
16 |
|
Massachussetts Institute of Technology |
7 |
7 |
|
University of Southern California |
7 |
16 |
|
Columbia University |
9 |
10 |
|
Harvard University |
9 |
7 |
|
Stanford University |
9 |
6 |
|
University of California, Berkeley |
9 |
12 |
|
University of California, Los Angeles |
9 |
7 |
|
City University of New York Graduate Center |
14 |
23 |
|
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
14 |
10 |
|
University of Arizona |
16 |
13 |
|
University of Notre Dame |
17 |
13 |
|
Brown University |
18 |
16 |
|
University of Texas, Austin |
18 |
13 |
|
University of California, San Diego |
20 |
20 |
|
University of California, Irvine |
21 |
20 |
|
University of Chicago |
21 |
20 |
|
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
21 |
24 |
|
Washington University, St. Louis |
21 |
39 |
|
Cornell University |
25 |
16 |
|
Duke University |
25 |
27 |
|
University of Pennsylvania |
27 |
27 |
|
Indiana University, Bloomington |
28 |
27 |
|
Ohio State University |
28 |
26 |
|
University of Colorado, Boulder |
28 |
32 |
|
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
28 |
24 |
|
Northwestern University |
32 |
53 |
|
University of California, Riverside |
32 |
31 |
|
University of Virginia |
32 |
39 |
|
Carnegie-Mellon University |
35 |
39 |
|
Georgetown University |
35 |
39 |
|
Syracuse University |
35 |
32 |
|
University of Connecticut, Storrs |
35 |
48 |
|
University of Miami |
35 |
32 |
|
Johns Hopkins University |
40 |
35 |
|
University of Maryland, College Park |
40 |
27 |
|
University of California, Davis |
42 |
35 |
|
University of Illinois, Chicago |
43 |
35 |
|
Boston University |
44 |
50 |
|
Florida State University |
44 |
44 |
|
Texas A&M University |
44 |
Not ranked |
|
University of California, Santa Barbara |
44 |
39 |
|
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
44 |
44 |
|
Saint Louis University |
49 |
Outside the top 53 |
|
University of Rochester |
49 |
44 |
Stability in overall results is the norm, though the big changes (both up and down) are all easily traceable to faculty changes in the interim. For example, Northwestern in 2006 had just come off the implosion (retirements/depratures of John Deigh, Arthur Fine, and David Hull, for example, but prior to the recruitment of Jennifer Lackey, Michael Glanzberg and others); the Notre Dame of 2006 still had Alasdair MacIntyre and Alvin Plantinga on the teaching faculty (both are now emeritus); USC, Yale, CUNY and Wash U/St. Louis all did extensive senior hiring since 2006; and so on. I was a little surpristed by the slippage for Arizona (from the 13-14 cluster to 16), and am inclined to view that as noise, though a possible explanation is the loss of Rachana Kamtekar to Cornell in the interim, and the fact that two prominent senior faculty will both be at least 70 in 2018 (Julia Annas and Terence Horgan).
One school that is underranked by reputation compared to its job placement is clearly Berkeley; another is Penn.
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