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Ranking of Theater and Performance Studies Graduate Schools

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Your Ranking of Theater and Performance Studies PhD Programs

Programs 1–28

Rank	Program	Regres Quality	Survey Quality	Research Product	Faculty Grants	Faculty Awards	Student Outcomes	Profes Devel	Stats Instruct	Orient	Intl Orient
1-1	New York University Performance Studies	1-3	1-1	1-2	36%	2.6	15-23	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
2-5	University of California-Santa Barbara Dramatic Art	2-14	3-12	5-6	32%	4.3	10-19	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
2-9	Tufts University Drama	4-19	3-13	2-4	20%	4.2	15-23	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
2-8	Yale University Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism	6-19	2-10	3-4	26%	6.7	1-4	11	No	Yes	No
3-10	Northwestern University Theatre and Drama	1-6	5-14	6-11	4%	6.2	4-13	15	No	Yes	Yes
2-11	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Drama	5-21	3-13	5-9	44%	1.8	3-13	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
4-10	Stanford University Drama	3-12	2-5	6-11	12%	1.1	1-4	16	Yes	Yes	Yes
3-10	University of California-Berkeley Performance Studies	3-14	4-13	11-16	37%	1.8	11-20	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
5-13	Ohio State University-Main Campus Theatre	4-18	11-20	11-16	50%	1.2	6-17	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
7-14	CUNY Graduate School and University Center Theatre	2-16	12-20	1-3	0%	3.8	26-27	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
6-14	University of California-Los Angeles Theater	5-19	4-14	7-12	36%	0.5	5-17	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
8-16	Northwestern University Performance Studies	3-16	2-6	17-22	14%	2.2	3-12	15	No	Yes	Yes
9-18	University of California-Davis Performance Studies	9-21	7-19	15-20	36%	0.3	13-26	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
11-21	University of Wisconsin-Madison Theatre and Drama	3-17	13-21	9-14	17%	2.4	21-26	17	No	Yes	Yes
13-23	The University of Texas at Austin Theatre	11-23	20-23	9-14	17%	1.8	23-27	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rank	Program	Regres Quality	Survey Quality	Research Product	Faculty Grants	Faculty Awards	Student Outcomes	Profes Devel	Stats Instruct	Orient	Intl Orient
13-22	University of Missouri-Columbia Theatre	7-21	11-20	15-20	34%	0.8	15-25	16	No	Yes	Yes
12-23	University of Maryland-College Park Theatre and Performance Studies	2-14	7-19	22-25	0%	0.8	2-14	17	No	Yes	Yes
14-23	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Theatre	21-27	10-20	22-25	22%	0.0	2-8	17	Yes	Yes	Yes
14-23	University of California-Irvine Drama and Theatre	11-23	6-18	6-13	0%	0.5	4-16	17	No	Yes	Yes
14-23	University of California-San Diego Drama and Theatre	11-23	6-18	6-13	0%	0.5	4-16	17	No	Yes	Yes
13-23	University of Georgia Theatre	8-22	9-20	12-18	11%	0.0	9-23	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
15-24	Bowling Green State University-Main Campus Theatre	7-21	11-20	20-24	0%	0.0	3-10	18	Yes	Yes	Yes
15-26	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Theatre Arts	22-27	20-27	13-19	40%	0.0	9-25	14	NA	Yes	Yes
17-26	University of Oregon Theatre Arts	22-27	22-27	18-23	50%	0.0	3-15	13	No	Yes	Yes
24-28	University of Colorado at Boulder Theatre	10-22	24-27	27-27	9%	0.1	5-17	14	No	Yes	Yes
22-28	University of Hawaii at Manoa Theatre	19-27	21-27	15-21	25%	0.0	18-26	16	No	Yes	Yes
24-28	University of Kansas Theatre and Film	22-27	23-27	22-25	13%	0.5	12-21	17	No	Yes	Yes
25-28	University of California-Riverside Dance History	18-26	21-26	26-26	0%	0.5	17-25	15	NA	Yes	Yes

Unranked Theater and Performance Studies PhD Programs

	Rank	Program	Regres Quality	Survey Quality	Research Product	Faculty Grants	Faculty Awards	Student Outcomes	Profes Devel	Stats Instruct	Orient	Intl Orient
		Arizona State University Theater and Performance Studies	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
		Bob Jones University Theater and Performance Studies	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA

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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 = 5. 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 = 4. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
Overall research productivity (Research Product): This variable shows a composite measure of research productivity, based on publications per faculty member, citations per publication, percent of faculty holding grants, and awards per faculty member. The relative importance of these variables was determined by the direct assessments of some 50 faculty in each field. Your weight = 4. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
% faculty with grants (Faculty Grants): This variable shows the percentage of faculty members in the program whose work was supported by external grants or contracts in 2006, based on data from a faculty questionnaire. Your weight = 5. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
Faculty awards (Faculty Awards): This variable shows the average number of awards per faculty member in the program, based on data from a review of 1,393 awards and honors given by various scholarly organizations. The committee identified awards as "Highly Prestigious" or "Prestigious", with the former given a weight of 5. Award recipients were matched to the faculty in all programs. For each program, the number of awards for an individual faculty member was the sum of the weighted awards times the faculty member's allocation to that program. The variable shown here equals the sum of these individual values divided by the number of faculty allocated to the program. 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 = 3. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
Professional development (Profes Devel): This measure indicates the number of professional-development opportunities and oversight mechanisms for graduate students. In a 2006 questionnaire, programs indicated how many, out of a possible 18, resources existed for the support of doctoral students or doctoral education. Your weight = 2. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
Instruction in statistics (Stats Instruct): The program or institution provides instruction in statistics to graduate students (2006). Your weight = 2. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
Orientation for new graduate students (Orient): The program or institution provides an orientation program for new graduate students (2006). Your weight = 2. Larger values are better. (Source: NRC, 2010)
Orientation for new international graduate students (Intl Orient): The program or institution provides an orientation for new international graduate students (2006). 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

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