Nicolay Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education Monday, December 8, 2008 Oft-Delayed Rankings of Doctoral Programs Are Near Release, Director Says By DAVID GLENN Barring an earthquake, the National Research Council Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minnesotan Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Loose, baggy monsters, indeed! This is going to spark a shitstorm of "rank these programz, plz" posts around here, and the problem is that only you can evaluate who has the best program for you. Not Newsweek, not the NRC, and decidedly not the name of the sporting league (*cough*Ivy*cough*) of which the university is a member. le sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine6 Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 still though, it would be nice if the NRC rankings could come out more than once a decade. (and not, of course, immediately after I carefully chose my schools... ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabana15 Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 ditto! I'm hoping that my safeties don't plummet 20 spots now that my apps are in (although it'd be nice if all my programs jumped up a few spots ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonights Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I'd be mighty happy if my two safeties would move up the list a bit! I sure wish these had come out around August, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rising_star Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Some of us have been waiting for 3 years for these rankings to come out... I remember hoping they'd be out when I was picking MA programs. Then hoping last year they'd be out when picking PhD programs. As it stands now, the rankings were published the year my advisor received his PhD... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miratrix Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I really don't care about these, I'm interested in way too specific a subfield in way too huge a field for them to matter in the slightest. Makes researching schools harder, but it's nice in a way too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenderpete Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Some of us have been waiting for 3 years for these rankings to come out... I remember hoping they'd be out when I was picking MA programs. Then hoping last year they'd be out when picking PhD programs. As it stands now, the rankings were published the year my advisor received his PhD... Any idea what's been slowing them down so much? I'd be interested to see if UPenn has come up in Politics as there are some pretty good up-and-coming people there now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rising_star Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 They redid the way they're doing it. It's explained in some of the press releases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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