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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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