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That is a philosophical question.
What type of philosophy are you interested in? What are your goals, does it include graduate school?
There are around 100 universities in the US with philosophy departments. The Leiter Report, which is feedback of the faculties of philosophy departments in the US, evaluated about 50 schools and gave them ratings. There are many criticisms of the rankings, which you should investigate in the first reference cited below. Among the most important criticisms is how the rankings bias the results towards the largest schools. However, as the reference points out, there is a small, but positive relationship between the rankings and the quality of the graduate programs at these institutions.
The top five according to this report are:
New York University
Rutgers University
Princeton
University of Pittsburgh
University of Michigan
The top 2 have been #1 and #2 in the rankings since 2002, and they are geographically not far from each other. (You can catch a train in New Bruswick, NJ and visit professors and New York Univ.) There are 23 permanent members of the faculty at New York University and at Rutgers, there are 29. The quality of the faculty at these two institutions are equated with that at Oxford University in England.
I personally like the campuses of Rutgers University better than a municipal campus, but that is just a personal preference. I worked there several years back on a post-doctoral position in the agricultural college of
Rutgers at New Brunswick.
What type of philosophy are you interested in? What are your goals, does it include graduate school?
There are around 100 universities in the US with philosophy departments. The Leiter Report, which is feedback of the faculties of philosophy departments in the US, evaluated about 50 schools and gave them ratings. There are many criticisms of the rankings, which you should investigate in the first reference cited below. Among the most important criticisms is how the rankings bias the results towards the largest schools. However, as the reference points out, there is a small, but positive relationship between the rankings and the quality of the graduate programs at these institutions.
The top five according to this report are:
New York University
Rutgers University
Princeton
University of Pittsburgh
University of Michigan
The top 2 have been #1 and #2 in the rankings since 2002, and they are geographically not far from each other. (You can catch a train in New Bruswick, NJ and visit professors and New York Univ.) There are 23 permanent members of the faculty at New York University and at Rutgers, there are 29. The quality of the faculty at these two institutions are equated with that at Oxford University in England.
I personally like the campuses of Rutgers University better than a municipal campus, but that is just a personal preference. I worked there several years back on a post-doctoral position in the agricultural college of
Rutgers at New Brunswick.
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