MOVING TO FRONT FROM NOVEMBER 22--UPDATED
As prior studies have confirmed, PGR rank is a rather good predictor of professional outcomes, even though that's not what the PGR suveys measure. (Of course, NYU and Rutgers placement, below, would have been wholly predictable from PGR rankings of faculty quality in years past!)
I look here, as I've done before, only at the untenured tenure-stream faculty at the top American PhD programs. This is misleading in some obvious ways. One of the most important is that tenure-stream jobs at liberal arts colleges may be the best jobs in American higher education: teachers enjoy excellent students, good salaries, and research support. My anecdotal impression is that tenure-stream faculty at leading liberal arts colleges in the U.S. (places like Pomona, Reed, Colgate, Wesleyan, Carleton, Macalester, Swarthmore, Grinnell, Bowdoin, etc.) are rather happy, and often have research qualification comparable to faculty at research universities.
With those caveats, here is where tenure-stream but untenured faculty at the "top 20" U.S. programs earned their PhD:
1. New York University (9)
2. Rutgers University, New Brunswick (8)
3. Princeton University (7)
4. University of California, Berkeley (5)
5. Harvard University (4)
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4)
5. Yale University (4)
8. Cambridge University (2)
8. Columbia University (2)
8. University of California, Irvine (2)
8. University of California, Riverside (2)
8. University of Chicago (2)
8. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2)
1 each: DePaul University; Oxford University; Stanford University; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Leeds; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; University of Paris I (Sorbonne); University of Southern California; University of Texas, Austin; University of Toronto; University of Western Ontario; University of Wisconsin, Madison; York University (UK).
Top 20 programs with 0: University of Pittsburgh; City University of New York; Brown University; University of California, San Diego; University of Notre Dame.
Berkeley, once again, is a star performer relative to its (very good but not "top 5") PGR ranking over the last decade, a credit I suspect to the quality of the training. The UC Irvine and Riverside PhDs were specialists in areas where those programs are quite strong, as reflected in the PGR. Both Cambridge PhDs were hired at Notre Dame. Both Chicago PhDs were hired at Columbia or Barnard (tenure-stream Barnard faculty are part of the Columbia graduate program faculty). I was surprised at how few Oxford DPhils there are. There is a widely shared sense that Oxford is in decline (and not just because of Brexit, although that can't help), but in past iterations of these snapshots, Oxford fared much better.
Below the fold, a list of PhDs by school (corrections welcome, of course):
NYU: Columbia
Rutgers: ---
Princeton: Harvard, NYU, Oxford, Rutgers
Michigan: DePaul, Berkeley, Southern Cal
Pittsburgh: MIT, Michigan, NYU, NYU, Yale, Toronto, UC Irvine
Yale: Princeton, Paris I (Sorbonne), MIT
MIT: Rutgers, Yale, Princeton
Columbia: NYU, Berkeley, Chicago, Berkeley, Rutgers, Chicago
Harvard: UC Riverside, MIT, Princeton, Wisconsin
Stanford: York (UK), NYU, UCLA, Stanford, Princeton, NYU, Berkeley, Harvard, NYU
UC Berkeley: Princeton
UCLA: Rutgers, Princeton, NYU, North Carolina, Rutgers
Southern California: Michigan, NYU, Columbia
North Carolina: Berkeley, Princeton, Yale
Arizona: ---
Brown: Yale, Harvard
Notre Dame: Cambridge, Rutgers, Texas, Cambridge, Rutgers, UC Irvine
Texas: Harvard
UC San Diego: Western Ontario, MIT, Rutgers, Leeds, UC Riverside
I've left out the CUNY Graduate Center, since they do not hire any untenured tenure-stream faculty, although they sometimes appoint such faculty who are hired at the various City University of New York colleges.
UPDATE: Philosopher Karen Nielsen (Oxford), the current Placement Director there, writes with an important observation:
It's impossible to discuss these issues [about tenure-track placement] without addressing the elephant in the room: Trump. As much as I try to reassure our graduate students that they should apply for jobs in the US and consider moving there, it's not an overstatement to say that the US has been a hard sell lately. I hope this will change. As someone married to a Pakistani-American, with all the unpleasant border crossings that entails, I can't help but sympathise with those of our student who think twice about building a life in the US under current conditions. While the disaster that is Brexit continues to have a negative impact on academia in the UK, it's perhaps understandable that many of our students prefer to stick with the devil they know. Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (DPhil Oxon, 2009) was tenured at the University of Michigan in 2015, but left in 2017 to return to Finland and a post at the University of Helsinki.
Oxford continues to dominate job placement in the UK, of course.
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