2023 Featured 2023 Survey Results: An Overview This post provides a few more results from the 2023 survey (organized with the help of Neelum Maqsood). As background, the 2023 survey departed from previous APDA surveys in being offered on the Qualtrics platform rather than on our own website. For this reason, we had to adapt the structure
2024 Featured 2024 Data Collection Results: a focus on recent graduates Over the spring and summer we updated the database using placement pages and other public sources of data (h/t Ricardo Rodriguez), inviting program representatives to edit their dashboards at the end of the summer. This effort led to 406 new graduates in the covered period (2013–2023), over 2/
2023 2023 Survey Results: Graduate Student Income The 2023 APDA Survey included the following new questions for current graduate students of philosophy PhD programs: * How satisfied are you in your financial situation? [very unsatisfied, unsat- isfied, neutral, satisfied, very satisfied] * Please elaborate on your previous answer. * Including all sources (e.g. stipends, employment, gifts) what is your
2023 2023 Data Collection Results: Employment As mentioned in the previous post, we have completed our data gathering for nearly 150 programs, with our new data dashboard capturing nearly 6,000 philosophy PhD graduates between 2013 and 2023. These graduates are largely in academic jobs: 40% have had permanent academic employment (2,379 of 5,998)
2023 The New Data Dashboard Between February and August of this year the APDA project has been busy collecting and checking data on the employment status of recent graduates from nearly 150 philosophy PhD programs. Three people were especially key to this effort: Alisha Nesslage, now a graduate student at UC Irvine, Ricardo Rodriguez, a
2023 Featured Philosophy Works This past week philosophy faculty from across the UC system got together to discuss how best to support graduate students in their search for non-academic careers. While around 85% of current students and recent graduates prefer an academic career, job satisfaction is the same for non-academic and permanent academic jobs
2022 What happened to all the philosophy PhDs? (SED edition) NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) has just released its 2021 data (h/t to Daily Nous). As noted at Daily Nous, the total number of philosophy PhD graduates reported for 2021 is 399, which is far fewer than previous years. The chart below has SED data from
2022 2022 Data Collection Results Since January we have been collecting data on over 200 PhD programs. The sortable table published to the home page today includes ten years of data for around 140 programs, nearly 50 of which have so far been able to verify our data. Analysis of that data is below, but
News New Name and Icons At 10 years old, APDA is ready for a sprucing up. The Board of Advisors met two weeks ago and decided to change the name of the project from Academic Placement Data and Analysis to Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis. Along with this name change I decided to create new
PGR We had hoped for better; What’s next? By Carolyn Dicey Jennings and Berit Brogaard In 2014, following the September Statement [https://sites.google.com/site/septemberstatement/], in which “six hundred twenty-four philosophers [signed] a pledge not to provide volunteer work for the Philosophical Gourmet Report under the control of Brian Leiter,” Brian Leiter posted the following [https:
2021 Top Programs Bottom Quartile of Philosophy PhD Programs Ranked by Average Student Rating with Placement Rate and Student Comments In the last three weeks I have posted some information about philosophy PhD programs, ranked by average student rating (you can see the other three posts here: https://academic-placement-data-and-analysis.ghost.io/tag/2021-top-programs/). This week I am covering the bottom quartile. One thing to note about the bottom quartile is
2021 Top Programs Third Quartile of Philosophy PhD Programs Ranked by Average Student Rating with Placement Rate and Student Comments The last two weeks I have posted information about the top quartile [https://academic-placement-data-and-analysis.ghost.io/topquartilephilosophyphdprograms/] and second quartile [https://academic-placement-data-and-analysis.ghost.io/secondquartilephilosophyphdprograms/] of philosophy PhD programs according to average student rating. This week I am covering the third quartile. What is the difference between these quartiles? While
2021 Top Programs Second Quartile of Philosophy PhD Programs Ranked by Average Student Rating with Placement Rate and Student Comments Last week I posted information about the top quartile [https://academic-placement-data-and-analysis.ghost.io/topquartilephilosophyphdprograms/] of philosophy PhD programs according to average student rating. This week I am covering the second quartile. What is the difference between these quartiles? There are only two statistically significant ones out of all the measures
2021 Top Programs Top Quartile of Philosophy PhD Programs Ranked by Average Student Rating with Placement Rate and Student Comments In this blog post I collate some updated information about 30 of the best rated PhD programs in philosophy according to APDA surveys of past graduates and current students: * keywords (if 3+ participants chose the keyword), * average program ratings (if 5+ participants rated the program on that dimension), * job placement,
PhD Programs New Findings on Diversity, Program Ratings, and Job Placement This past summer APDA sent a survey [https://academic-placement-data-and-analysis.ghost.io/new-survey/] to past graduates and current students in philosophy PhD programs. Some of the results have already been discussed in blog posts at Daily Nous [https://dailynous.com/2021/10/05/guide-to-graduate-programs-in-philosophy-based-on-job-placement-and-student-experience-guest-post/] , Philosopher's Cocoon [https://philosopherscocoon.typepad.
2021 New Survey ! Over the past year APDA has worked with a Board of Advisors to determine the best research and communication methods for the project going forward. This summer we have been focused on three main projects: * redeveloping the website * updating the database to include recent graduates * sending out a survey To
News Changes at APDA: Board of Advisors and Website Since the last post [https://academic-placement-data-and-analysis.ghost.io/top-philosophy-programs/] in July, APDA has been making some changes. First, there is now a Board of Advisors [http://placementdata.com/about/]. Advisors were selected based on the rough criteria of a) being familiar with the APDA project and/or data analysis regarding
PhD Programs Featured Best PhD Programs in Philosophy What is the best PhD program in philosophy? In one way of thinking about it, this question doesn’t make much sense. Philosophy is many different things and philosophers can be many different types of people, so the best program will depend on the person in question and the type
PhD Programs Philosophy PhD Programs: Rice University, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and University of Notre Dame In this blog post I provide some detailed, up-to-date information about three final philosophy PhD programs. This week's picks are Rice University [https://philosophy.rice.edu/], University of Hawai'i at Mānoa [https://hawaii.edu/phil/], and University of Notre Dame [https://philosophy.nd.edu/]. These programs
PhD Programs Philosophy PhD Programs: University of Arkansas and Southern Illinois University In this blog post I provide some detailed, up-to-date information about two philosophy PhD programs. This week's picks are University of Arkansas [https://fulbright.uark.edu/departments/philosophy/] and Southern Illinois University [https://cola.siu.edu/philosophy/]. These programs were chosen randomly, using an app called Pickster. (Next
PhD Programs Philosophy PhD Programs: Birkbeck, University of London and University of Rochester In this blog post I provide some detailed, up-to-date information about two philosophy PhD programs. This week's picks are Birkbeck, University of London [http://www.bbk.ac.uk/departments/philosophy/] and University of Rochester [https://www.sas.rochester.edu/phl/]. These programs were chosen randomly, using an app
PhD Programs Philosophy PhD Programs: McMaster University and University of Washington In this blog post I provide some detailed, up-to-date information about two philosophy PhD programs. This week's picks are McMaster University [https://philos.humanities.mcmaster.ca/] and University of Washington [https://phil.washington.edu/]. These programs were chosen randomly, using an app called Pickster. (Next week's
PhD Programs Philosophy PhD Programs: University of British Columbia, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, and University of Virginia In this blog post I provide some detailed, up-to-date information about four* philosophy PhD programs. This week's picks are University of British Columbia [https://philosophy.ubc.ca/], University of Missouri [https://philosophy.missouri.edu/], University of Nebraska [https://www.unl.edu/philosophy/], and University of Virginia [https://philosophy.
PhD Programs Philosophy PhD Programs: Florida State University and York University In this blog post I provide some detailed, up-to-date information about two philosophy PhD programs. This week's picks are Florida State University [https://philosophy.fsu.edu/] and York University [https://phil.laps.yorku.ca/]. These programs were chosen randomly, using an app called "Pickster [https://www.dropbox.
PhD Programs Philosophy PhD Programs: The New School and MIT In this blog post I provide some detailed, up-to-date information about two philosophy PhD programs. This week's picks are The New School [https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/philosophy/] and Massachusetts Institute of Technology [https://philosophy.mit.edu//]. These programs were chosen randomly, using an app called "Pickster