by Jon Lackman | 1 September 2011 | Books, Career
New books by favorite authors are piling up on my desk — Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo’s Political Art by Mieke Bal, Florence & Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science by Hans Belting, Queer Beauty and A General Theory of Visual Culture by the prolific Whitney Davis, The Passionate Triangle by Rebecca Zorach, Building-in-Time by Marvin Trachtenberg, Christ to Coke by Martin Kemp, and more.
But instead I must devote the little time I have these days for the newsletter to this: I just discovered that the NRC revised its rankings back in April after discovering errors in its data. So, I should go back and revise the findings of my last post on this subject. Using my (admittedly arbitrary) method of average the NRC two rating systems, I get this revised ranking:
1 University of California-Berkeley
2 University of Chicago
3 Columbia University in the City of New York
4 Yale University
5 Princeton University
6 New York University
7 Harvard University
8 University of California-Los Angeles
9 Northwestern University
10 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11 University of Texas at Austin
12 University of Pennsylvania
13 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14 Duke University
15 Brown University
16 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
17 University of California-Santa Barbara
18 University of Southern California (*)
19 University of Wisconsin-Madison
20 City University of New York Grad. Center
21 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Campus (*)
22 Stanford University
23 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (*)
24 University of Maryland College Park
25 Bryn Mawr College
26 Temple University
27 University of Delaware
28 Johns Hopkins University
29 Washington University in St. Louis (*)
30 Penn State University
31 Emory University
32 University of Washington
33 Rutgers the State University of New Jersey New Brunswick Campus
34 Indiana University at Bloomington
35 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (*)
36 Case Western Reserve University
37 University of Kansas
38 University of Georgia
39 State University of New York at Stony Brook
40 Boston University
41 University of Iowa
42 University of Virginia
43 Ohio State University Main Campus
44 University of Missouri – Columbia
45 Cornell University
46 State University of New York at Binghamton
47 Florida State University
48 Virginia Commonwealth University
49 University of New Mexico Main Campus
50 University of Louisville*: An asterisk indicates that the program scored the same as the one above it.
Kinda surprised RISD isn’t even on the list..
For a PhD in art history? They don’t offer one…