The only exception is the information on clusters, which comes from a paper currently under review. See the end of the post for more information on the clusters. Worth noting is that the past success of these programs may be less predictive than usual, given the unknown impact of COVID on academic institutions. Below, programs are listed with asterisks to indicate if they show up in multiple sections. To start, do current students and recent graduates recommend the program to prospective graduate students?
The average for all programs is "somewhat likely" to recommend 4. They are ordered below by topical cluster and then by average rating highest first. The majority of these programs are in the Core Analytic cluster dividing all programs into 8 clusters, the largest share end up in this cluster.
Of course, this is a rough guide to the overall topical focus of a program, some programs may be less of a good fit for a cluster than others, and many students and advisors in each program are likely to work on other topics. The cluster may nonetheless give a sense of fit for prospective students. Carnegie Mellon University 4. Racial and Ethnic Diversity An additional twelve are in the top 15 for percentage persons of color, listed in terms of percentage.
Socioeconomic Diversity An additional twelve are in the top 15 for percentage first-generation college students. Placement success can be measured in multiple ways. Note: I am now only counting students that sought academic employment.
Here is the full list:. Note: where it was unknown if a student sought academic employment, the student is counted as having sought academic employment. Only students that explicitly did not seek academic employment are left out. Of those schools which provided this data, the following list shows the ratio of all students that sought academic employment or unknown compared with all students from that school:. But as I stated earlier, this is a much smaller dataset from the top Continental schools, so comparisons should be made with caution.
I noticed in analyzing the data that many graduates were placed into with a Catholic heritage—much more so than in the analytic tradition.
As I understand the history of philosophy in the 20th century, the analytic tradition was dominated by logical positivism from the early s through the s and s. Since metaphysics, values, and theology were unverifiable by empirical methods, any discussion about them was regarded as meaningless. However, Continental schools still largely remain the home of Catholic philosophy, as they had been its refuge for 70 years.
So it should not be surprising that many graduates do place into Catholic schools. How many? Thus, if you want to end up at a Catholic college or university, going to one of these Catholic schools is a great bet. Based on a suggestion from one of our readers, I combined the list of schools that had hired graduates, both initially and currently, from either the analytic or continental traditions.
This resulted in a list of 1, distinct names of schools that have hired a philosophy graduate since Note: I have not cleaned up all of the names, so there will be some repeats based on misspellings, different naming conventions, etc. Here are some interesting facts I discovered…. Based on this, it seems that schools that hire analytic graduates are much more likely to only hire analytic graduates, whereas schools that hire Continental graduates are much more likely to hire from both traditions.
Consequently, it seems that there are less schools that are interested in Continental graduates as compared with those interested in graduates from Analytic programs. Of the schools which have hired from both traditions, which schools have hired the most Continental graduates as a percentage of their total hires since ?
Here is the full list of schools that have a hiring ratio of Continental graduates greater than 0. Of the schools which have hired from both traditions, which schools have hired the most Analytic graduates as a percentage of their total hires since ? Here is the full list of schools that have a hiring ratio of Analytic graduates greater than 0. Which schools have hired the most Continental graduates? In terms of Current placement counts, 1 Fordham University and Emory University have 8 current Continental graduates, 3 Duquesne University has 7 current Continental graduates, and 4 Loyola University, Chicago has 5 current Continental graduates.
Here is the full list of schools with counts of Continental graduates above Which schools have hired the most Analytic graduates? In terms of Current placement counts, 1 the University Toronto has 28 current Analytic graduates, 2 the University of Chicago has 19 Analytic graduates, and 3 Harvard University and Oxford University both have 18 current Analytic graduates.
Here is the full list of schools with counts of Analytic graduates above What does this mean? Also, it seems that most schools are more inclined to hire Analytic graduates than Continental graduates.
Being from the analytic tradition, I was not exactly sure how to classify primary areas of study as derived from dissertation titles. I did notice that many more dissertation titles in the Continental tradition reference a major historical philosopher. Potentially another part of the explanation. A first pass might involve looking at the applicant pools at one or more of these programs. What we have is data on who accepted offers. And I had no idea that Western Washington was not on the national ranking.
Not exactly the same as elite bias but a similar mechanism may be at play. Imagine a world in which there are thousands of desirable candidates applying to hundreds of graduate programs, but only ten or twenty of those desirable candidates have property P. Imagine also that all hundred of those graduate programs are trying to get desirable candidates with property P. In such a world, one would expect that the ten or twenty candidates would get offers from just about every school they apply to.
The very same people with property P would appear on many lists, and would go to whichever program they liked best. In a world as I have described, the universal bias toward candidates with Property P would be very apparent in the lists of admitted students, but would not be visible in the lists of students who accept the positions.
It matches what we actually see in our world. Now imagine a different world, in which those with Property P face systemic discrimination, and are held to a much higher standard than anyone else. Interesting observation, Brian! The line between universities with a low national rank and those that are unranked is of course a bright line across a gray and imperfectly evaluated phenomenon.
But for an analysis of this sort one needs some category boundaries, while admitting they are imperfect. I like the familiarity bias hypothesis. That the admittees will demographically resemble the enrollees is a pretty decent null hypothesis, so you would want good evidence against it. And another unsurprising symptom of the prestige bias in academia. Unfortunately, prestige and merit do not always correlate. Eric, thanks so much for doing this or, I hope, having some research assistant do most of the work.
When you say info was readily available at 8 of 13 of the programs, did you mean you got as much as you could from others e. I hope someone can try the same sort of analysis at the next PGR-ranked programs to see whether the trends are notably different I predict they will be. THanks again! Thanks for the comment, Eddy! I did not include the other five programs, so I estimate that my list contains about half of currently enrolled PhD students in this group of programs.
I like the idea of analyzing another group of programs similarly — though I might do ranks , or something like that, for more separation. I think this is difficult. I have taught at two non-elite institutions which are both however leading public universities R1.
And I have taught at one elite private place. The very very top was just not comparable. Then there was what one might think of as really good students, definitely still very good for grad schools i.
Those were present in my completely subjective estimate in the following ratio — And maybe a few more. Of course, the elite prvate place will only excacerbate the difference by the way it can support the students through education smaller classes, more other opportnities, and so on. So by the time they are finishing, they are better positioned to write an impressive paper, for example.
In any case, I think there is something wrong with this system but I think the problem is not so much in the biases of admission committees but somewhere deep in the educational system of the US that provides very unequal education in elementary and high schools. I remember looking at correlations between GRE scores and admissions when I was a grad school applicant 2 years ago.
I got the data from self-reported results at TheGradCafe. I noticed that most elite schools had almost no correlations I wonder if this is somehow related.
Any faculty member prioritizing admissions offers to Harvard and Yale graduates is not only basically outsourcing their thinking to mid-level bureaucrats and faculty at Harvard and Yale, but substituting judgment of candidates at 17 years old, which sounds frankly insane.
If departments are serious about diversifying the profession, a bias against applicants from non elite programs is a good place to start, since limiting the pool to elite programs is inevitably going to result in fewer underrepresented minorities. Families with significant socioeconomic resources are likely to encourage their children, regardless of gender, to attend elite institutions and have the resources necessary to make that possible.
But students who are applying to PhD programs are already there, and are more likely to have philosophical chops necessary assuming that better philosophy students are more likely to apply to PhD programs than students who struggle. The reason why Penn has got so many philosophy majors is simply because they got a PPE major counted towards philosophy. What Percentage Had Philosophy Majors? What Explains the Phenomenon? Image: Schonbek Sophia Chandelier.
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