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Leiter used to rank the MA's into tiers. In any case, my top 5 terminal MA's: Tufts, Brandeis, UWM, NIU, Virginia Tech

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

I see this point raised a lot, but it's really just playing around with words. GSU has a set budget in which to fund students, and so they admit and fund those students. UWM/NIU has a set budget in which to fund students, and so they admit and fund those students. There's no difference, except that UWM/NIU then go on additionally to allow a few students to attend if they so wish to and can handle the finances, whereas GSU would decline them.

UWM's also comes out as higher. Just under 8k a year beats $15k over two years.

I'd downvote my comment.

Welcome to the job market.

You can't spell without spelling Liar.

And why is it our Lord and Savior Immanuel Kant?

Is your avatar from Studio Ghibli?

I love this thread so much. You should join us in academic philosophy. You'd fit right in. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fiction/

University of North Texas (MA/PhD) and University of Montana (MA) have graduate programs concerned with environmental philosophy, where work in philosophy of technology would be well appreciated.

There's no point in seriously engaging with crazy or troll.

Yeah. That's the rule 101 students are taught. But I'm a graduate student, and we play by a different set of rules.

Also, I hope you're a troll. "You can't possibly be this naive."

My religious assumptions are not to be guided by religious assumptions. And as we all know, if A then ~A, therefore ~A. Q.E.D.

Fixed for Jesus.

Equal or better to UConn? So like, what? A tenure-track position at UConn?

Congrats! I wish I could have gone there. The campus looks beautiful, and there's a lot of nostalgic similarity between Virginia Tech and my BA institution.

Psst, your bias is showing.

If I could go back to any decade, it'd be back to when positivism was a viable philosophy. What a grand time that was.

The reason this is a big deal is that the American Philosophical Association passed a resolution in the '90's stating that graduate programs give students up to April 15th to decide on offers. Thus if Brandeis were ignoring this resolution, that would be big news, and, as Ian said, Leiter would be on it.

"Tufts and Brandeis will require you to spend more on living. But the placement records are better at these two schools. Brandeis is doing particularly well in placing M&E candidates. Compare these with schools like NIU and Georgia State... If one weights the placement record and quality of the faculty, Brandeis and Tufts win. NB: UW Milwaukee, in my view, is the third-ranked program. Milwaukee is a great place to live, too. Cost of living is low, but you're well-connected." At the time I thought you were saying: Tufts & Brandeis Tier 1. NIU and GSU Tier 2. UWM tier 3. But just above you said you'd rank UWM third behind Brandeis and Tufts, so it seems I was just interpreting you wrongly. Otherwise I fully agree, regarding the placement rankings being what they are, all the other factors when evaluating MA programs to consider, etc. etc.

I was just questioning the rationale of placing UWM as a third tier MA program after GSU.

I was just questioning the rationale of placing UWM as a third tier MA program after GSU. edit: Woops, wrong thread

Better than the chances where you don't ask Peter? There is literally nothing else to speculate on.