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Where junior tenure-track faculty at the “top 20” PhD programs got their PhD, 2023-24 (corrected)

MOVING TO FRONT FROM SEPTEMBER 12–CORRECTED

Here is where the current untenured tenure-track faculty in philosophy at the top twenty U.S. programs got their Ph.D. (or D.Phil.):

1.  Harvard University (10)

2.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (7)

2.  New York University (7)

4. Yale University (5)

5.  Princeton University (4)

5.  Rutgers University, New Brunswick (4)

5.  University of California, Berkeley (4)

8.  Columbia University (3)

9.  Oxford University (2) (both at Southern California)

9.  University of Chicago (2) (both Columbia/Barnard)

9.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2)

9.  University of Southern California (2) (both at Michigan)

These programs each had one graduate on tenure-track at the top twenty programs:  CUNY, U Mass/Amherst, UC Irvine, Buffalo, British Columbia, Indiana, DePaul, UC Riverside, Harvard Government Dept., Toronto, Potsdam, Cambridge, UC San Diego, Texas, Brown, Stanford, Cornell, Pittsburgh, Penn.

The 2022-23 list is here, and the 2019-20 list is here.

I list the Ph.D. by the school at which they are teaching below the fold:

NYU:    Harvard, MIT, Berkeley

Rutgers:    Harvard, CUNY

Princeton:    MIT, Harvard, NYU, Rutgers

Pittsburgh:    NYU, Yale, Columbia, Toronto, UC Irvine

Michigan:    Indiana, USC, USC, DePaul

Yale:    Princeton, Harvard, Columbia

Harvard:    Michigan, UC Riverside, Harvard Government, MIT

MIT:    Yale, MIT

Berkeley:    Harvard, Rutgers, Princeton, Rutgers

UCLA:    NYU

USC:    Princeton, U Mass/Amherst, Oxford, Buffalo, Oxford, British Columbia

CUNY:    Yale

Columbia/Barnard:    Harvard, Berkeley, Chicago, Chicago

Stanford:    NYU, Berkeley, Harvard, NYU

North Carolina:    UC San Diego, Texas, Princeton, MIT

Notre dame:  Cambridge, Brown, Rutgers, NYU

Texas:    Michigan, Columbia

Brown:    NYU, MIT, Yale, Harvard

Cornell:    Berkeley

UC San Diego:    Western Ontario, Penn, Harvard

Chicago:    Potsdam, Stanford, Yale, Pittsburgh, Harvard, Cornell, MIT

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