Opinions on the Classics PhD Program at Yale

[alexandradelaurentiis]

Can I ask for people's opinions of the Classics PhD program at Yale? What are your impressions of the department, etc.? I have an offer from them, which I am very happy about, but a few of my current supervisors have suggested the program and department are not as academically strong as they may seem. Any opinions?

[voxanonyma]

I am curious about this, as I've heard no such things. You could ask the /r/classics subreddit as well about this. Based on a somewhat faulty ranking system, they are, of the three elder Ivies, below Harvard and Princeton in terms of job placement, as well as Stanford and Berkeley, but I don't know how much of a difference that really is, especially when their own placement data seems to be pretty good relative to the job market? But I'm curious what others think. Brown's been talked about the past few years as having a lot of problems for example, but I've heard nothing like that about Yale.