Paired Comparisons of Philosophy Departments: The Results After More than 100,000 Comparisons...

...and with apologies to Kenneth Arrow and with the caveats noted earlier, here's the top 25 in the U.S. (a slightly eccentric, but remarkably plausible ordering given the problems with the method--perhaps a useful reminder not to take small ordinal differences in the PGR or here too seriously!):

1.  New York University (90)

2.  Rutgers University, New Brunswick (88)

3.  Princeton University (87)

3.  University of Pittsburgh (87)

5.  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (85)

6.  Harvard University (84)

6.  Massachussetts Institute of Technology (84)

6.  Stanford University (84)

9.  University of California, Berkeley (83)

9.  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (83)

11. Yale University (81)

12. Columbia University (80)

12. University of California, Los Angeles (80)

14. City University of New York Graduate Center (79)

14. Cornell University (79)

16. University of Arizona (78)

17. Brown University (77)

18. University of Texas, Austin (74)

19. University of Wisconsin, Madison (73)

20. University of Notre Dame (71)

21. University of California, San Diego (70)

21. University of Chicago (70)

21. University of Southern California (70)

24. University of Colorado, Boulder (67)

25. University of Massachussetts, Amherst (65)

26. University of California, Irvine (64)

27. University of Pennsylvania (62)

27. Washington University, St. Louis (62)

29. Ohio State University (61)

30. Duke University (60)

31. University of California, Riverside (59)

31. University of Maryland, College Park (59)

33. Indiana University, Bloomington (58)

33. Syracuse University (58)

35. Northwestern University (57)

36. Georgetown University (56)

36. University of California, Davis (56)

38. Johns Hopkins University (53)

38. University of Virginia (53)

40. Carnegie-Mellon University (52)

The top fifteen in the U.K.:

1.  Oxford University (90)

2.  Cambridge University (78)

3.  University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (75)

4.  University College London (69)

5.  King's College, London (65)

6.  London School of Economics (61)

7.  Birkbeck College, University of London (58)

8.  University of Edinburgh (57)

9.  University of Leeds (54)

10. University of Sheffield (51)

11. University of Reading (49)

12. University of Bristol (39)

13. University of Nottingham (38)

14. University of Glasgow (35)

15. University of Warwick (34)

Outside the top five, the UK results strike me as considerably more wacky, and the 2009 PGR results a much better measure.

The top five in Canada:

1.  University of Toronto (77)

2.  University of British Columbia (50)

3.  McGill University (49)

3.  University of Western Ontario (49)

5.  York University, Toronto (35)

The top five in Australasia:

1.  Australian National University (79)

2.  University of Sydney (52)

3.  University of Melbourne (40)

4.  Monash University (39)

5.  University of Auckland (34)