Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:50:05 -0700 From: Gretchen Adams-Bond <gabond@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> To: H-VERKKO@sara.cc.utu.fi Subject: FYI: National Research Council Ranks History/English Programs
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 16:02:12 -0600
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Wednesday, September 13, 1995
---------------------------------------------------------- New Study Provides Rankings of Thousands of Doctoral Programs in U.S.
Doctoral students are taking longer to complete their degrees, and female and minority students continue to be underrepresented among those receiving Ph.D.'s, the National Research Council reported Tuesday in a new study.
The study examines the quality and effectiveness of more than 3,600 doctoral programs in 41 fields at 274 universities across the United States. Programs were grouped by discipline and ranked according to responses to questionnaires by a sample of faculty members in each field. The faculty "raters" were asked to evaluate the "scholarly quality of program faculty" and the "effectiveness in educating research scholars/scientists."
The study also found that top-rated programs tend to have more faculty members and more graduate students than lower-rated programs.
The last time the council completed a study of doctoral programs like this one was in 1982. Over all, the rankings of the doctoral not changed dramatically since then.
Detailed analysis of the study and comprehensive statistics from it will be available in next week's issue of The Chronicle.
Document: o Selections from the National Research Council's Report on the Status of Research-Doctorate Programs
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From the National Research Council's Report on the Status of Research-Doctorate Programs, Released Tuesday, September 12, 1995
----------------------------------------------------------------- Relative rankings in terms of each faculty's "scholarly quality" for programs in ...
English Language and Literature 2.* Yale University (Conn.) 2. University of California at Berkeley 2. Harvard University (Mass.) 4. University of Virginia 5. Duke University (N.C.) 5. Stanford University (Cal.). . .
* A statistical convention ranks as no. 2 three institutions that tie for first.
History 1. Yale University (Conn.) 2. University of California at Berkeley 3. Princeton University (N.J.) 4. Harvard University (Mass.) 5. Columbia University (N.Y.) 6. University of California at Los Angeles 7. Stanford University (Cal.) 8. University of Chicago (Ill.) 9. Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 10. University of Wisconsin at Madison
Here, based on tallies from the report, are the top 20 universities, with the number of their programs the report ranks in the top 10:
1. University of California at Berkeley, 38 2. Stanford University (Cal.), 32 3. Harvard University (Mass.), 28 4. Princeton University (N.J.), 22 5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 20 6. Yale University (Conn.), 19 6. Cornell University (N.Y.), 19 8. University of Chicago (Ill.), 18 9. University of Pennsylvania, 15 10. University of California at San Diego, 14 10. Columbia University (N.Y.), 14 10. University of Wisconsin at Madison, 14 10. University of Michigan, 14 14. California Institute of Technology, 13 14. University of California at Los Angeles, 13 16. University of Washington, 11 17. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 10 18. Johns Hopkins University (Md.), 9 19. Duke University (N.C.), 8 20. University of Texas at Austin, 7
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