PGR Overall Rankings: from 2006 to 2017 (REVISED AND CORRECTED)

The (revised) chart belows shows the movement in the overall rankings over the last decade (from the 2006 Report), to the new 2017 results that Christopher Pynes revised yesterday last week.

School name	2017 PGR rank	2006 PGR rank
New York University	1	1
Rutgers University, New Brunswick	2	2
Princeton University	3	3
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	4	3
University of Pittsburgh	4	5
Yale University	6	16
Massachussetts Institute of Technology	7	7
University of Southern California	7	16
Columbia University	9	10
Harvard University	9	7
Stanford University	9	6
University of California, Berkeley	9	12
University of California, Los Angeles	9	7
City University of New York Graduate Center	14	23
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	14	10
University of Arizona	16	13
University of Notre Dame	17	13
Brown University	18	16
University of Texas, Austin	18	13
University of California, San Diego	20	20
University of California, Irvine	21	20
University of Chicago	21	20
University of Wisconsin, Madison	21	24
Washington University, St. Louis	21	39
Cornell University	25	16
Duke University	25	27
University of Pennsylvania	27	27
Indiana University, Bloomington	28	27
Ohio State University	28	26
University of Colorado, Boulder	28	32
University of Massachusetts, Amherst	28	24
Northwestern University	32	53
University of California, Riverside	32	31
University of Virginia	32	39
Carnegie-Mellon University	35	39
Georgetown University	35	39
Syracuse University	35	32
University of Connecticut, Storrs	35	48
University of Miami	35	32
Johns Hopkins University	40	35
University of Maryland, College Park	40	27
University of California, Davis	42	35
University of Illinois, Chicago	43	35
Boston University	44	50
Florida State University	44	44
Texas A&M University	44	Not ranked
University of California, Santa Barbara	44	39
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	44	44
Saint Louis University	49	Outside the top 53
University of Rochester	49	44

Stability in overall results is the norm, though the big changes (both up and down) are all easily traceable to faculty changes in the interim.  For example, Northwestern in 2006 had just come off the implosion (retirements/depratures of John Deigh, Arthur Fine, and David Hull, for example, but prior to the recruitment of Jennifer Lackey, Michael Glanzberg and others); the Notre Dame of 2006 still had Alasdair MacIntyre and Alvin Plantinga on the teaching faculty (both are now emeritus); USC, Yale, CUNY and Wash U/St. Louis all did extensive senior hiring since 2006; and so on.  I was a little surpristed by the slippage for Arizona (from the 13-14 cluster to 16), and am inclined to view that as noise, though a possible explanation is the loss of Rachana Kamtekar to Cornell in the interim, and the fact that two prominent senior faculty will both be at least 70 in 2018 (Julia Annas and Terence Horgan).

One school that is underranked by reputation compared to its job placement is clearly Berkeley; another is Penn.