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  1. Thanks for the very thorough response from both of you, and especially Ian for a useful run-down of the limitiations of comparing placement records using average PGR rank. In fact, an inkling of some of those limitations was what motivated my question. I'd already seen the Philosophy News article that Turretin posted (which includes an assessment based on average rank) but was skeptical that these numbers were telling the whole story. As Ian points out, above, different schools are likely to place better with certain programs/areas of specialisation and the numbers will in no way account for that. Moreover, and without wishing to impute any self-serving motives to the person who wrote it, NIU seems to come out very well compared to GSU in that article... and NIU also happens to be the place where the writer studied his MA. Really, the thing I'm trying to figure out is which program is most likely to get me into the highest-possible ranked Phd program to study ethics, in two years time. I don't yet have figured out what my "dream school" is or which particular program/advisor I am aiming at. I just know that I want to study ethics/political philosophy and feel the general pressure to be in a program that's as well-ranked as possible in order to stand a chance at (eventually) securing a job. I suppose, then, I should look up which Phd programs are considered the best for ethics and see in whose placement records they tend to come up the most, in recent years. (Using this? http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/breakdown/breakdown8.asp)At a glance they seem to be comparable? In terms of the worry that a place will have a high average placement rank which, at the same time, masks the additional fact that most of their graduates aren't accepted anywhere... This is a moot point in terms of comparing GSU and NIU, I think. Both seem to me to have acceptable ratios of application to acceptance. I'm far more concerned about the quality/prestige of the programs their graduates end up at.
  2. I'm not quite sure how best to compare the placement records for different MA's. Where does, for instance, Georgia State rank against NIU? Does it make sense to take the avg ranking of the programs their students have been accepted into and compare that way, or is the sample size low enough that this is a poor indication? And, perhaps an even more intractable question: does anyone have any sense for how good GSU's placement is with candidates interested in Ethics, specifically? In case it's not already apparent, I'm trying to decide between these two.
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