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 (also here), 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 24" U.S. programs (based on this guesstimate) earned their PhD:
1. New York University (9)
2. Princeton University (7)
2. Rutgers University, New Brunswick (7)
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (6)
5. University of California, Berkeley (5)
6. Harvard University (4)
6. Yale University (4)
8. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3)
9. Cambridge University (2)
9. Columbia University (2)
9. Oxford University (2)
9. University of California, Irvine (2)
9. University of California, Riverside (2)
9. University of Chicago (2)
9. University of Pittsburgh (2)
9. University of Texas, Austin (2)
9. University of Wisconsin, Madison (2)
1 each: University of Southern California, University of Toronto, University of California at Los Angelse, Stanford University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, DePaul University, University of Paris I, University of York (UK), University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Potsdam, University of Western Ontario, University of Rome III, University of Melbourne, Harvard University (Government Department), Claremont Graduate School (Religious Studies)
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. (MIT also out-performs its PGR rank, but not as dramatically.) The UC Irvine and Riverside PhDs were specialists in areas where those programs are 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).
Below the fold, a list of PhDs by school (corrections welcome, of course):
NYU: MIT, Columbia
Rutgers: ---
Princeton: NYU, Oxford, Rutgers
Michigan: DePaul, Berkeley, Southern California
Pittsburgh (Philosophy & HPS): MIT, NYU, Harvard, NYU, Yale, Toronto, UC Irvine
Yale: Princeton, Paris I, MIT
MIT: Rutgers, Yale, Princeton
Stanford: York (UK), NYU, UCLA, Stanford, NYU, Berkeley, Harvard, NYU
UC Berkeley: Harvard, Princeton
UCLA: Rutgers, Princeton, NYU, North Carolina, Rutgers
USC: Michigan, NYU, Columbia
Harvard: UC Riverside, MIT, Princeton, Wisconsin, Harvard (Government Dept)
Columbia: NYU, Berkeley, Chicago, Berkeley, Rutgers, Chicago
North Carolina: Princeton
CUNY: ---
Texas: Michigan
Arizona: Michigan, Illinois/Chicago
Chicago: Potsdam, Yale, Pittsgburgh, MIT
Cornell: Princeton, Berkeley
Notre Dame: Cambridge, Rutgers, Texas, Cambridge, UC Irvine, NYU
Brown: Yale, Harvard
UC San Diego: Western Ontario, MIT, Rutgers, UC Riverside
UC Irvine (Philosophy & LPS): Rome III, Claremont (Religious Studies), Texas, Melbourne, Pittsburgh
Wisconsin: Wisconsin, Oxford
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