Note: While these sites may contain information of value to you, the Education and Social Science Library and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign do not endorse the sites or the information they contain. For more information and current research on rankings, we encourage you to read some of the articles listed in our College Rankings Bibliography and to see our Caution and Controversy page. For questions or comments, please contact Nancy O'Brien.
[http://graduate-school.phds.org/]
Methodology: An explanation of the methods used in this ranking can be found on the opening page.
Using data taken from the National Research Council's print publication Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change, this site offers users the opportunity to customize the NRC's rankings of science, engineering, humanities and social science departments. One can assign varying weights to ranking criteria and generate lists more closely matching an individual's personal requirements in a graduate department. For an overview of the National Research Council study, please see the Research-Doctorate Programs web page for an overview of the National Research Council study, or the Executive Summary for a delineation of the study's methodology.
[http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/]
Methodology: An explanation of this site's methodology can be found on a page titled Methods and Criteria.
This site has much to offer both to philosophy students and faculty as well as to individuals generally interested in rankings. Prospective philosophy students will find a treasure trove of information at this site which ranks graduate programs in philosophy in the United States. Separate, although smaller, lists give the rankings for universities in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Detailed descriptions of departmental strengths are given, along with listings of "up and coming" departments, faculty moves, and graduates' job placements. A very thoughtful discussion titled What the rankings mean is presented. This discussion, along with the site's thoughtful quality and care of design, makes the Philosophical Gourmet Report invaluable to students of rankings.
[http://www.socialpsychology.org/ranking.htm]
Methodology: Uses the "quality score" from the 1995 study conducted by the National Research Council published by the APS Observer in January, 1996.
Social Psychology Network uses the rankings from National Research Center's Rankings of U.S Psychology Ph.D. Programs (1995) to display the top 185 psychology Ph.D. programs in the U.S. This site also links to other national and international rankings in various psychology related programs.
[http://grad.studentsreview.com/]
Methodology: This site offers an explanation of its rankings on a page titled Rankings Methodology
This site provides ratings and critiques of universities based on surveys collected from undergraduate and graduate students. The participants evaluate their universities based on questions in three categories: Department, University, and Social/Interactive. Please note that this is not a scientific sampling, but offers anecdotal reviews (positive and negative) of universities.
[http://mup.asu.edu/research.html]
Methodology: The rankings methodology is located in the rankings PDF.
This report identifies the top public and private research universities in the United States based upon nine quality measures. Universities are clustered and ranked according to total and federal research funding, endowment assets, annual giving, National Academy membership, prestigious faculty awards, doctorates awarded, postdoctoral appointees, and SAT scores of entering freshmen. Also available are lists of the top 200 public and private universities on each quality measure. The site includes other reports and resources on measuring university performance. The report and web-based data are updated annually in mid-summer.
[http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/overall.asp]
Methodology: This site offers an explanation of its methodology in its opening paragraphs.
The information presented in these rankings is a companion to the Philosophical Gourmet Report and ranks the leading research universities in the United States. The universities are ranked according to the overall quality of the universities although the scope and number of programs factors into the score as well. The rankings are based on U.S. News and World Report academic reputation survey.
[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/rankindex_brief.php]
Methodology: U.S. News offers an explanation of its rankings here: The ranking methodology. Additionally, some of the individual subject areas also have separate pages concerning methods (e.g. business, education, engineering, etc.). These discipline-specific pages are listed here.
The most recent rankings of graduate programs in several disciplines were released in 2005. The rankings are presented along with the methodology used to generate them. This site also contains links to general information about admittance to graduate school, test information, and articles about schools and programs noted in the survey.
[http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf]
Methodology: Fifteen graduate schools, 5 from each of the programs in medicine, law and business, were selected as the "best" graduate schools by consensus of grad-school deans and top-recruiters combined with published graduate school rankings. These graduate schools were monitored to see where the 5,100 incoming graduate students obtained their undergraduate degrees, factoring in the size of the undergraduate institution in the overall "feeder score."
These rankings were created to show which top 50 undergraduate universities were sending (aka feeding) more students to the selected 15, elite graduate school programs in medicine (Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University of California San Francisco, Yale), law (Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan and Yale ) and business (Chicago, Dartmouth's Tuck School, Harvard, MIT's Sloan School and Penn's Wharton School ). For more information see the related article "Want to go to Harvard Law?" by Elizabeth Bernstein published in the Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2003, page W.1.
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