MOVING TO FRONT; ORIGINALLY POSTED OCTOBER 1
For the convenience of students, and based on the 2017 results and the changes in the interim, here's a guesstimate of the clustering of the top 50 U.S. PhD programs if surveys were conducted this fall; programs are listed alphabetically within clusters, except for the programs that are "maybe" part of that cluster (which are likely to be towards the bottom of that grouping). (Based on an earlier conversations with Christopher Pynes, I believe there will be new PGR surveys in early fall 2020.)
Here goes:
New York University (1)
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Rutgers University, New Brunswick (2)
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Princeton University; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; University of Pittsburgh; and, maybe, Yale University (3-6)
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Columbia University; Massachussetts Institute of Technology; Harvard University; Stanford University; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; and, maybe, University of Southern California (7-13)
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City University of New York Graduate Center; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and University of Texas, Austin (14-16)
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Brown University; University of Arizona; University of Notre Dame; and, maybe, Cornell University (17-20)
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University of California, Irvine; University of California, San Diego; University of Chicago; and University of Wisconsin, Madison (21-24)
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Indiana University, Bloomington; Ohio State University; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Massachussetts, Amherst; University of Pennsylvania and, maybe, Duke University and Washington University, St. Louis (25-31)
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Georgetown University; Johns Hopkins University; University of California, Riverside; University of Maryland, College Park; University of Miami; University of Virginia; and, maybe, Carnegie-Mellon University; Northwestern University; and University of Connecticut, Storrs (32-40)
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Boston University; Florida State University; Rice University; Syracuse University; Texas A&M University; University of California, Davis; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Illinois, Chicago; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul; University of Rochester; and, maybe, Saint Louis University (41-51)
Again, this is my "guesstimate" of how the voters from 2017 would rank the departments given changes in the interim. This is not my opinion of the top departments, which is rather different.
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