by Jon Lackman | 14 March 2007 | Career, News
To put our survey findings better in context, it helps to compare departments’ placement numbers with the number of PhDs they award each year. Relatively good data is available via Dissertation Abstracts. We counted up doctorates for each department having more than one top placement in our survey.
Art-history Dept. (PhDs granted per year, ’99-’05)
1. NYU (20)
2. Columbia (17)
2. CUNY (17)
4. Harvard (13)
5. Berkeley (12)
6. Yale (11)
6. Chicago (11)
8. U. of Pennsylvania (10)
8. UCLA (10)
10. Princeton (9)
11. Texas (9)
12. Stanford (6)
13. Iowa (5)
13. Johns Hopkins (5)
15. Northwestern (4)
15. Delaware (4)
15. Emory (4)
15. Brown (4)
19. MIT (3)
19. Wisconsin-Madison (3)
19. Rochester (3)
So, which departments landed the most top jobs per graduate? Those rankings are:
1. Yale
2. Harvard
3. Northwestern
3. Columbia
3. MIT
6. Princeton
6. Berkeley
6. Johns Hopkins
6. Stanford
10. Rochester
11. U. of Pennsylvania
12. Wisconsin-Madison
13. Brown
14. UCLA
15. Delaware
15. Emory
15. Iowa
18. Chicago
19. NYU
20. Texas
21. CUNY
