Where Tenure-Track Faculty at the Top 20 U.S. Departments 2005-06 Got Their PhD,

We haven't compiled this data in awhile.  For purposes of this list, the “top 20” graduate faculties surveyed were NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, Michigan, Pittsburgh (both philosophy and HPS), Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Columbia, UCLA, Texas, Cornell, Berkeley, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Arizona, Brown, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Chicago, and CUNY.  Bear in mind, of course, that today’s tenure-track faculty were choosing where to go to graduate school anywhere from six to fifteen years ago.

Here are the schools that produced the most graduates who landed tenure-stream jobs at top 20 graduate programs (those already denied tenure are excluded):

Princeton University (11 graduates placed at Arizona, Chicago, Michigan, MIT, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, and Princeton)

Harvard University (8 graduates placed at Barnard/Columbia, NYU, Princeton, Stanford, UC Irvine, and UCLA)

Massachussetts Institute of Technology (7 graduates placed at Cornell, Harvard, Michigan, MIT, NYU, and Princeton)

University of Pittsburgh (Philosophy and HPS) (6 graduates placed at Chicago, Harvard, North Carolina, and UCLA)

Oxford University (5 graduates placed at Columbia, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Princeton, and UCLA)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3 graduates placed at Brown, Barnard/Columbia, and UC Irvine)

University of California, Berkeley (3 graduates placed at Berkeley and Chicago)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3 graduates placed at Princeton and Stanford)

Yale University (3 graduates placed at Chicago, Cornell, and Princeton)

Columbia University (2 graduates placed at Michigan and Notre Dame)

New York University (2 graduates placed at Brown and Texas)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2 graduates placed at Arizona and Columbia)

There was one graduate each from the following PhD programs (with the name of the school where the graduate was placed following in the parentheses):

Brown University (Arizona)

Carnegie-Mellon University (Columbia)

Cornell University (Harvard)

King's College, London (Harvard)

Ohio State University (UCLA)

Stanford University (North Carolina)

University of Arizona (Michigan)

University of California, Irvine (Harvard)

University of California, Los Angeles (UC Irvine)

University of Chicago (Arizona)

University of Colorado, Boulder (UC Irvine)

University of Paris (Pittsburgh)

University of Texas, Austin (NYU)

University of Wisconsin, Madison (Berkeley)