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Ranking of History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Graduate Schools

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Your Ranking of History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology PhD Programs

Programs 1–30

Rank	Program	Regres Quality	Survey Quality	Student Outcomes	Jobs at Grad	Diversity	Female Students	Female Faculty
1-4	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Art History	5-27	4-17	6-36	76%	2-12	100%	80%
1-11	University of California-Los Angeles Archeology	1-24	1-1	9-41	59%	25-45	61%	52%
1-8	Northwestern University Art History	8-23	4-15	3-16	77%	3-15	82%	56%
2-9	University of California-Berkeley History of Art	1-7	2-7	9-25	60%	25-44	80%	50%
2-12	University of Chicago Art History	2-8	2-7	33-49	76%	24-41	77%	39%
2-14	University of Wisconsin-Madison Art History	11-28	18-32	4-22	90%	8-24	88%	62%
3-17	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus History of Art and Architecture	20-40	10-21	1-5	83%	34-53	88%	44%
4-18	Harvard University History of Art and Architecture	3-14	6-18	3-16	65%	19-39	76%	39%
5-22	Duke University Art History	14-30	3-16	13-46	66%*	6-18	82%	54%
5-22	Princeton University Art and Archaeology	3-12	5-16	6-20	69%	26-44	72%	35%
6-22	The University of Texas at Austin Art History	8-24	6-19	1-15	66%	31-51	76%	50%
5-22	University of California-Los Angeles Art History	7-22	4-15	39-52	59%	5-20	78%	64%
6-24	Brown University History of Art and Architecture	11-25	8-20	14-37	70%	14-33	81%	56%
8-24	Yale University History of Art	2-9	5-18	5-20	63%	33-50	61%	48%
6-25	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus Art History	24-42	21-38	3-15	88%	17-36	88%	58%
Rank	Program	Regres Quality	Survey Quality	Student Outcomes	Jobs at Grad	Diversity	Female Students	Female Faculty
7-26	University of Southern California Art History	12-28	16-28	2-19	54%	14-32	82%	67%
8-27	Massachusetts Institute of Technology History, Theory and Criticism	10-33	3-14	1-5	66%*	40-54	74%	18%
8-28	Columbia University in the City of New York Art History and Archaeology	1-8	4-17	52-57	54%	16-33	72%	52%
11-28	University of Pennsylvania History of Art	8-19	9-22	11-40	67%	37-52	77%	46%
10-32	Columbia University in the City of New York Architecture	11-41	2-11	13-52	54%	2-11	52%	50%
10-33	Temple University Art History	20-44	15-40	2-54	66%*	10-30	73%	78%
13-31	Bryn Mawr College History of Art	15-36	25-43	17-51	75%	12-32	79%	75%
12-32	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor History of Art	9-23	17-34	12-47	64%	27-45	82%	52%
15-32	New York University History of Art and Archeology/IFA	1-8	8-21	20-49	43%	32-50	73%	47%
13-35	Emory University Art History	20-37	31-48	7-37	67%	8-25	88%	69%
15-35	University of Delaware Art History	16-35	27-42	15-37	64%	7-23	80%	69%
16-35	Stanford University Art History	10-27	20-47	4-55	64%	19-39	82%	60%
17-36	Indiana University-Bloomington Fine Arts-Art History	27-44	29-46	11-37	84%	24-44	78%	62%
20-35	University of California-Santa Barbara Art History	8-24	19-33	11-28	56%	18-36	82%	42%
16-36	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Art History	11-28	25-40	35-53	54%	2-7	89%	65%

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Item Descriptions

Rank: A range indicating how this program ranked in 500 simulated rankings based on your priorities. Programs are sorted by their median rank. Learn more.
NRC regression-based quality measure (Regres Quality): The NRC's measurements of overall program quality are based on 20 key variables (19 in the humanities) such as GRE scores, student support and faculty publications. To calculate the regression-based quality measure, the relative importance, or weight, of a variable was set by the extent that it correlated with programs viewed most favorably by evaluators in each field. Learn more. Your weight = 3. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
NRC survey-based quality measure (Survey Quality): The NRC's measurements of overall program quality are based on 20 key variables (19 in the humanities) such as GRE scores, student support and faculty publications. To calculate the survey-based quality measure, evaluators in each field identified the variables that they considered to be the most important indicators of program quality. Learn more. Your weight = 5. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
Student support and outcomes (Student Outcomes): This variable is a composite of other measures of student support and outcomes, including 6-year or 8-year graduation rates (for non-humanities programs and humanities programs, respectively), time to degree, job placement within academia, percentage of first-year students with full financial support, and whether a program collects data about the employment outcomes of its graduates. The relative importance of these variables was determined by the direct assessments of some 50 faculty in each field. Your weight = 2. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
Placement Rate (Jobs at Grad): This variable shows the percentage of students with definite plans at graduation (either a job or a postdoctoral position), based on data from the student questionnaire. Your weight = 2. Larger values are better. (Source: SED, 2000–2004)
Diversity in the academic environment (Diversity): This variable shows a composite measure of diversity generated by the National Research Council. It includes data on percent of faculty and students from underrepresented minorities, percent of female faculty and students, and percent of international faculty and students. The relative importance of these variables was determined by the direct assessments of some 50 faculty in each field. Your weight = 1. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
Percentage of female students (Female Students): The percentage of female doctoral students Your weight = 2. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
Percentage of female faculty (Female Faculty): This measure reports the percentage of female faculty members, based on data from a 2006 program questionnaire. Faculty allocations were not considered in the calculation. Your weight = 2. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)

Data Sources

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System: IPEDS is an annual, comprehensive set of surveys of all colleges and universities in the United States. The surveys are conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. Learn more
National Research Council: The National Research Council conducts periodic assessments of doctoral programs in the United States. Our data comes from the most recent assessment in 2010. Learn more
Survey of Earned Doctorates: The NSF/NIH/NEH/USED/USDA/NASA Survey of Earned Doctorates is an annual survey of all new recipients of doctorates from US universities at graduation. The average of the response rates for the 2000–2004 surveys was 92%. Learn more
Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering: The Survey is an annual assessment of the number and characteristics of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in science, engineering, and health-related fields It is conducted by the National Science Foundation. Learn more

* Value is missing. The value shown is based on the average for other programs in the same field. Learn more.

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