Given the delay in getting the full report on-line, I thought I'd post another preview of the specialty rankings in a central area for the benefit of prospective students, as well as to satisfy the curiosity of others. For how to read the specialty rankings, please see here.
NORMATIVE ETHICS AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY
Group 1 (1-2) (mean of 5.0)
Harvard University (5.0)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (5.0)
Group 2 (3-5) (mean of 4.5)
New York University (4.5)
Oxford University (4.5)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (4.25)
Group 3 (6-9) (mean of 4.0)
Princeton University (4.0)
University of California, Berkeley (4.0)
University of California, Los Angeles (4.0)
University of Toronto (4.0)
Group 4 (10-24) (mean of 3.5)
Cambridge University (3.5)
Cornell University (3.5)
Georgetown University (3.5)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3.5)
Stanford University (3.75)
University of Arizona (3.5)
University of Auckland (3.5)
University of California, Riverside (3.5)
University of California, San Diego (3.5)
University of Chicago (3.5)
University of Pittsburgh(4.0)
University of Reading (3.5)
University of St. Andrews (3.5)
University of Texas, Austin (3.5)
Yale University (4.0)
Group 5 (25-43) (mean of 3.0)
Australian National University (3.0)
Brown University (3.0)
Duke University (3.0)
Florida State University (3.0)
Indiana University, Bloomington (2.5)
Massachussetts Institute of Technology (3.0)
Ohio State University (3.0)
Rice University (3.0)
Syracuse University (3.0)
University College London (3.0)
University of California, Davis (3.0)
University of Colorado, Boulder (2.5)
University of Edinburgh (3.0)
University of Florida, Gainesville (3.0)
University of Maryland, College Park (3.0)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (3.0)
University of Notre Dame (3.0)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (3.0)
Washington University, St. Louis (3.0)
Also Notable (median of 3.0): Arizona State University; University of Massachussetts, Amherst; University of Melbourne; University of Miami; University of Virginia.
In addition, the aggregated faculties of the colleges making up the University of London received a rounded mean score of 3.5 and a median score of 3.5.
In the judgment of the Advisory Board, the following programs that were not part of the survey ought to be considered by students interested in this area: Bowling Green State University
Evaluators: Donald Ainslie, Julia Annas, Christopher Bobonich, Samantha Brennan, David Brink, Ruth Chang, Roger Crisp, Jonathan Dancy, Justin D’Arms, John Deigh, John Doris, James Dreier, Julia Driver, Gerald Dworkin, David Estlund, John Martin Fischer, Owen Flanagan, John Gardner, Gerald Gaus, Berys Gaut, Patricia Greenspan, Richard Holton, Thomas Hurka, Rosalind Hursthouse, P.J. Ivanhoe, Shelly Kagan, Christopher Kutz, Colin Macleod, Jefferson McMahan, Christopher Morris, Tim Mulgan, Shaun Nichols, Alistair Norcross, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Otsuka, Gerald Postema, Michael Ridge, Arthur Ripstein, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, David Schmidtz, Sharon Street, Wayne Sumner, John Tasioulas, Larry Temkin, Peter Vallentyne, Ralph Wedgwood, Catherine Wilson, Jonathan Wolff, Allen Wood. (Remember: Evaluators were not permitted to evaluate their own department or the department from which they received their graduate degree.)
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