Top 15 Programs in Moral Psychology for 2024-25

The full ranking, including the programs with a rounded mean of 3.0, will appear at the PGR site.

Moral Psychology	Rounded Mean	Median	Mode	Group
Cornell University	4.0	4.50	4.5, 4	Group 1
University of California, Los Angeles	4.0	4.00	3.5, 4, 5	Group 1
University of Chicago	4.0	3.50	3	Group 1
Yale University	4.0	4.00	4	Group 1
Brown University	3.5	4.00	4	Group 2
Duke University	3.5	3.50	4	Group 2
Johns Hopkins University	3.5	4.00	4	Group 2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3.5	3.50	3.5	Group 2
New York University	3.5	3.00	3, 2, 2.5, 4	Group 2
Oxford University	3.5	3.50	3.5, 4	Group 2
Princeton University	3.5	3.50	3.5	Group 2
University of California, Berkeley	3.5	4.00	4, 3	Group 2
University of California, San Diego	3.5	3.75	4	Group 2
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	3.5	3.50	3.5	Group 2
University of Southern California	3.5	3.50	4	Group 2

Evaluators:  John Bengson, Matt Boyle, Roger Crisp, John Doris, Dale Dorsey, Michael Gill, Grace Helton, Paul Katsafanas, Niko Kolodny, Brian Leiter, Mark Murphy, Derk Pereboom, Hanna Pickard, Paul Russell, David Schmidtz, Thomas Schramme, Russ Shafer-Landau, Stephen Stich, Manuel Vargas, Evan Westra, Eric Wiland.

Remember that evaluators could not evaluate their own school or the school from which they received their Ph.D.

This is another category where there are competing conceptions of what is central:  e.g., empirically-informed moral psychology, agency theory more generally, philosophy of the moral emotions, moral motivation, etc.