Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 5 programs in philosophy of physics (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):
Group 1 (1-2) (rounded mean of 5.0)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (5, 5)
University of Pittsburgh (5, 5)
Group 2 (3-5) (rounded mean of 4.5)
Oxford University (4.5, 4.5)
University of California, Irvine (4.5, 4.5)
University of Western Ontario (4, 4)
Since this is one of the few fields with a high level of consensus about the best programs (i.e., Group 1 consists of schools with a rounded mean of 5.0), there remain many strong programs with rounded means of 4.0 that are not in the top five (e.g., Columbia, NYU, UC San Diego and others). The top-rated programs in this area, like many others, tend to be those with not only first-rate philosophers but also two or more tenured philosophers in these areas.
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