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Where (untenured) tenure-track faculty at the U.S. top 20 Ph.D. programs earned their Ph.D., 2025-26 edition

MOVING TO FRONT WITH CORRECTIONS–ORIGINALLY POSTED SEPTEMBER 1

 

It looks like the last time we collected this data was 2023, and the changes are minimal:

1.  Harvard University (9)

1.  Princeton University (9)

3.  Yale University (7)

4.  New York University (6)

4.  University of California, Berkeley (6)

6.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4)

7.  Oxford University (3)

7.  Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3)

9.  Columbia University (2)

9. University of California, Irvine (2)

9. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2)

1 each graduated from:  University of Notre Dame; City University of New York Graduate Center; Indiana University, Bloomington; DePaul University; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University at Buffalo, State University of New York; University of British Columbia; University of Toronto; University of Arizona; University of California, San Diego; University of Chicago; Brown University; Cambridge Uinversity; University of Western Ontario, University of Pennsylvania; Cornell University; Stanford University; and University of Paris-Sorbonne.  Of the PGR “top 10,” the Universities of Pittsburgh, Southern California and Texas at Austin are not currently represented.

If one goes outside the top 20, to the top 25ish (Columbia, UC Irvine, Brown, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Penn), then that adds 3 each for Harvard and Oxford (bringing Harvard to 12 and Oxford to 6); 2 each for Chicago, MIT, NYU, and Princeton (bringing Chicago to 3, MIT to 6, NYU to 8, and Princeton to 11); and 1 each for ANU, Birkbeck, Berkeley, Boston University, Cincinnati, Columbia, Ohio State, Rutgers, Texas, UC San Diego and Yale (bringing Berkeley to 7, Columbia to 3, Rutgers to 4, UC San Diego to 2, and Yale to 8).

Below the fold are tenure-track PhDs by school at which they teach (please email me corrections):

NYU:  Harvard, Berkeley

Rutgers:  Harvard, CUNY

Princeton:  Harvard, Notre Dame

Michigan:  Indiana, DePaul, Princeton, Princeton

Yale:  MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia

Berkeley:  Harvard, Rutgers, Rutgers, Princeton

Southern Cal:  Princeton, U Mass/Amherst, Oxford, Oxford, Princeton, Buffalo, British Columbia

Pittsburgh:  Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Yale, Toronto, UC Irvine

Texas:  Michigan, NYU, Columbia

Harvard:  Yale, Michigan, MIT

MIT:  Yale, NYU, Sorbonne

UCLA:  —

North Carolina:  UC San Diego, Princeton, UC Irvine, Yale, MIT, Rutgers, Princeton

Notre Dame:  Cambridge, Brown, Chicago, NYU

Stanford:  NYU, Berkeley, Berkeley, Harvard, Arizona, NYU, Harvard

CUNY:  Yale

Cornell:  —

Johns Hopkins:  Princeton, NYU

UC San Diego:  Western Ontario, Berkeley, Penn, Berkeley, Yale

UChicago:  Stanford, Oxford, Harvard, Cornell, MIT

——

Columbia:  Harvard, NYU, Berkeley, Chicago, ANU

UC Irvine:  Chicago, Ohio State, MIT

Wisconsin:  Rutgers, Oxford, Princeton, Oxford, Birkbeck, BU, Oxford

Brown:  NYU, MIT, Texas, Yale, Harvard

Penn:  Princeton, Columbia, Harvrad

Ohio State:  Cincinnati, UC San Diego

 

 

 

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