As discussed in the comments at a previous post, I have been looking at department-specific placement rates. "Placement rate" is the number of reported placements*** divided by the number of graduates. I looked at reported placements between 2011 and 2014 and graduates between 2009 and 2013. I do not have data on many departments that reported placements in this time frame**, but of those 94 departments for which I do have data, 32 appear to have placement rates higher than 50% for tenure-track jobs and 51 appear to have placement rates higher than 50% for a combination of tenure-track, postdoctoral, VAP, and instructor jobs (both sets are listed below).****
Update: I have removed the following departments from both lists because I do not have updated graduation data from them: University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. These departments may well have placement rates as high as these others, but the graduation data I have from them comes from the 2012 APA Graduate Guide, since they did not complete the 2013 APA Graduate Guide. If the department chairs respond to my email of June 10th with updated information, I will update their status.
Departments with 50% or higher placement rates for tenure-track jobs, in alphabetical order:
| Australian National University |
| Baylor University |
| Boston University |
| Columbia University |
| Dalhousie University |
| Fordham University |
| Harvard University |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| New York University |
| Northwestern University |
| Princeton University |
| Rutgers University |
| Saint Louis University |
| Stanford University* |
| Syracuse University |
| University of California, Berkeley |
| University of California, Irvine (LPS) |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
| University of California, San Diego |
| University of Cincinnati |
| University of Connecticut |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| University of Notre Dame |
| University of Oregon |
| University of Pittsburgh |
| University of Pittsburgh (HPS) |
| University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| University of Texas, Austin |
| University of Western Australia |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Vanderbilt University |
Departments with 50% or higher placement rates for all jobs (all reported tenure-track, postdoctoral, VAP, and instructor placements combined), in alphabetical order:
| Australian National University |
| Baylor University |
| Boston University |
| Brown University |
| Columbia University |
| Dalhousie University |
| Duke University |
| Fordham University |
| Georgetown University |
| Harvard University |
| Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| New York University |
| Northwestern University |
| The Ohio State University |
| Princeton University |
| Rice University |
| Rutgers University |
| Saint Louis University |
| Stanford University* |
| University of Arizona |
| University of British Columbia |
| University of California, Berkeley |
| University of California, Davis |
| University of California, Irvine (LPS) |
| University of California, Los Angeles |
| University of California, Riverside |
| University of California, San Diego |
| University of Cincinnati |
| University of Connecticut, Storrs |
| University of Maryland |
| University of Memphis |
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| University of Notre Dame |
| University of Oregon |
| University of Pittsburgh |
| University of Pittsburgh, HPS |
| University of Sheffield |
| University of Southern California |
| University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| University of Texas, Austin |
| University of Toronto |
| University of Virginia |
| University of Washington |
| University of Western Australia |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Vanderbilt University |
| Washington University, St Louis |
| York University (Canada) |
As I have mentioned in other posts, the data I am using will be made available in another post soon.
*These departments have incomplete data for the years between 2009 and 2013, but both have communicated that they aim to provide a complete set of data soon.
**Update: These are the departments for which I do not yet have data on yearly graduates, in alphabetical order. (Note that I emailed most of these departments to obtain this information on June 9th and 10th.):
| Birckbeck, University of London |
| Durham University |
| King’s College, London |
| London School of Economics |
| Marquette University |
| McGill University |
| State University of New York, Buffalo |
| Trinity College, Dublin |
| University College London |
| University of Adelaide |
| University of Auckland |
| University of Cambridge |
| University of Chicago (CHSS) |
| University of Edinburgh |
| University of Kentucky |
| University of Leeds |
| University of Melbourne |
| University of New Mexico |
| University of Oxford |
| University of St Andrews |
| University of Sydney |
| University of Tasmania |
| University of Warwick |
| University of Western Ontario |
| Victoria University of Wellington |
| Wayne State University |
***Update: Note that I looked only at placements reported at ProPhilosophy (2011-2012 and 2012-2013) and PhilAppointments (2013-2014)
****Update: Note that the placement rates reported here are for candidates both with and without reported priors, which differs from the "new graduates" method provided in the previous post. As noted in a comment below, for these 94 departments, the overall placement rate using this method is around 42%, whereas the overall tenure-track placement rate using this method is around 29%.
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