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E-PrinceU.S. News & World Report released its 2010 graduate school rankings last week, placing the University first for its programs in politics, economics, history and mathematics.
Compared to 2009, the University’s graduate programs have generally risen in the 2010 ...
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good stuff, good stuff. I love this school.
Politics FTW
Sadly, English should be ranked considerably lower. I could not in conscience recommend graduate study here to any talented student, in view of moribund curriculum, low-profile faculty and dismal hiring-to-tenure record.
The Wilson School's ranking didn't change because the rankings are from last year! The rankings for many fields are done only every 3-4 years.
For a small bio department at a university without a med school, I guess 12th isn't too bad.
How did Princeton Law School fare?
In response to 'thursday', 50 faculty and associated faculty, 120 graduate students, 130 postdoctoral fellows, 100 undergraduate majors, and 100 technical and administrative staff is not a small department.
Piney, I don't really know what you're talking about. I mean, grad school rankings are nearly meaningless in any case as so much depends on the specific field and the specific student, but the English department has some pretty excellent faculty and has tenured several good people recently. It has its problems, sure, but is not an obviously worse place to do graduate work than almost anywhere else in the country -- and has a placement record as good as anybody else's.
What are the problems in English? I am thinking of majoring but don't want to sign into a dud department. Examples please.
Fere, calm down. I can assure you that a graduate program's US News ranking has nothing, literally nothing, to do with whether an undergrad should major in that department. (It has little enough to do with whether a prospective grad student should sign up with that department, since even then the individual's interests, prospective advisor, and program of study are much more important than the department's overall image -- and the US News thing is a very imperfect measure of even that.)