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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:35:35 -0600
From:         RICHARD JENSEN <CAMPBELLD@APSU.BITNET>
Subject:      Detailed ranking history depts in 1992 & 1982

 US News and World Report rankings of PhD programs in
  History, 1992, with comparisons to 1982 rankings
   137 History department heads and directors of graduate study ranked
   each program in terms of "reputation for scholarship, its
   curriculum and the quality of its faculty and graduate students."
   The highest score = 5 = "Distinguished"; "Strong" = 4; "Good" = 3
   "Adequate" = 2; "Marginal" = 1. (Bad schools presumably got a 1.)

    Column 1 = column 5 - column 2 = Gain/Loss in rank in 10 years.
    Column 2 = relative rank in 1982 (blank = not rated)
    Column 3 = Quality score in 1982 (z-score).
    Column 4 = Effectiveness score in 1982 (z-score)
    Column 5 = relative rank in 1992
    Column 6 = Score in 1992 (5 = high, 1 = low)
    Column 7 = Zscore version of column 6; comparable to col 3 & 4
    Column 8 = Change in score (col 7 - average of col 3&4)
    Columns 1, 2 and 5 are relative ranks: Note that a department
        can drop in rank if a new PhD program squeezes in ahead of it.

   Columns 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 are NOT relative ranks; they are absolute score
    with average = 100 and standard deviation = 10.  Like IQ scores.
    Change in col 8 indicates improvement/decline relative in terms of
    criterion of history professors.

     Richard Jensen  CAMPBELLD@APSU [thanks to Dan Smith for coding '82]

       (blank = no report for 1982; 3 schools overlooked in 1992.)
      1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8
         Rank82    EffecRank'92   Z '92
    Gain      Quality '82    Score'92  Z change
                         114  1.7   89      Akron
                          88  2.3   95      Alabama
       8   84   90   89   76  2.5   97    7 American
       2   49   99  100   47  3.0  102    2 Arizona
                          88  2.3   95      Arizona State
     -19   86   88   88  105  1.9   91    3 Arkansas
     -11   94   86   83  105  1.9   91    6 Auburn
                         109  1.8   90      Ball State
      21   86   88   89   65  2.7   99   10 Boston College
     -13   38  102  100   51  2.9  101    0 Boston U
                         109  1.8   90      Bowling Green
      -9   18  111  110   27  3.4  106   -5 Brandeis
                         101  2.1   93      Brigham Young
      -1   15  112  113   16  4.0  112    0 Brown
     -22   49   99  102   71  2.6   98   -3 Bryn Mawr
     -15   12  113  108   27  3.4  106   -5 CUNY Graduate School
       0    1  121  119    1  4.9  121    1 Cal/Berkeley
      39   72   93   93   33  3.3  105   12 Cal/Davis
       7   34  103  104   27  3.4  106    2 Cal/Irvine
     -28   29  106  106   57  2.8  100   -6 Cal/Riverside
      43   70   94   92   27  3.4  106   13 Cal/San Diego
      -7   26  107  108   33  3.3  105   -3 Cal/Santa Barbara
                          57  2.8  100      Cal/Santa Cruz
       0   11  114  112   11  4.4  116    3 Cal/UCLA
      20   64   96   98   44  3.1  103    6 Carnegie Mellon
       2   78   92   95   76  2.5   97    3 Case Western Reserve
     -16   72   93   93   88  2.3   95    2 Catholic
       0    5  118  115    5  4.6  118    2 Chicago
     -23   59   97   97   82  2.4   96   -1 Cincinnati
      16   49   99   97   33  3.3  105    7 Claremont
      19   66   95   94   47  3.0  102    7 Colorado
      -4    5  118  116    9  4.4  116   -1 Columbia
     -20   45  100  100   65  2.7   99   -1 Connecticut
       6   15  112  113    9  4.4  116    4 Cornell
     -12   45  100  101   57  2.8  100   -1 Delaware
      97   97   85   84       1.9   91    6 Denver ("Colorado-Denver"
                         109  1.8   90      Drew      in US News)
       7   21  110  110   14  4.2  114    4 Duke
      13   38  102  105   25  3.6  108    5 Emory
      24   66   95   94   42  3.2  104    9 Florida
     -24   72   93   94   96  2.2   94    0 Florida State
       9   85   89   88   76  2.5   97    8 Fordham
       2   78   92   93   76  2.5   97    4 George Washington
      35   86   88   94   51  2.9  101   10 Georgetown
      45   45  100   98      overlooked     Georgia
      -3    3  120  117    6  4.5  117   -1 Harvard
      -5   66   95   93   71  2.6   98    4 Hawaii
                          88  2.3   95      Houston
      -7   94   86   85  101  2.1   93    7 Howard
                         115  1.6   87      Illinois State
     -17   34  103  102   51  2.9  101   -2 Illinois-Chicago
       8   29  106  108   21  3.8  110    3 Illinois-Urbana
      -4   12  113  113   16  4.0  112   -1 Indiana
      -2   24  108  108   26  3.5  107   -1 Iowa
       3    9  116  117    6  4.5  117    1 Johns Hopkins
      -6   38  102  102   44  3.1  103    1 Kansas
                          96  2.2   94      Kansas State
     -29   59   97   94   88  2.3   95   -1 Kent State
     -17   54   98   99   71  2.6   98   -1 Kentucky
      -1   64   96  100   65  2.7   99    1 Louisiana State
     -10   86   88   87   96  2.2   94    6 Loyola (Chicago)
      90   90   87   89      overlooked     Maine
                          96  2.2   94      Marquette
       5   32  104  103   27  3.4  106    2 Maryland
       2   59   97   98   57  2.8  100    2 Mass-Amherst
                         115  1.6   87      Memphis State
                         103  2.0   92      Miami (Florida)
      15   97   85   90   82  2.4   96    8 Miami (Ohio)
      -1    5  118  117    6  4.5  117    0 Michigan
      -2   49   99  101   51  2.9  101    1 Michigan State
                         123  1.1   82      Middle Tennessee
       3   26  107  109   23  3.7  109    1 Minnesota
     -14  101   83   84  115  1.6   87    4 Mississippi State
     -23   34  103  104   57  2.8  100   -4 Missouri
      -1   32  104  106   33  3.3  105    0 NYU
      -6   59   97   99   65  2.7   99    1 Nebraska
     -10   72   93   99   82  2.4   96    0 New Hampshire
                          65  2.7   99      New Mexico
       2   15  112  113   13  4.3  115    3 North Carolina
                         115  1.6   87      North Dakota
     -25   90   87   86  115  1.6   87    1 North Texas
                         120  1.5   86      Northern Arizona
                          82  2.4   96      Northern Illinois
       2   18  111  111   16  4.0  112    1 Northwestern
      21   72   93   94   51  2.9  101    7 Notre Dame
      11   38  102  104   27  3.4  106    3 Ohio Stata
     -22   54   98   98   76  2.5   97   -1 Oklahoma
      94   94   86   83      Overlooked     Oklahoma State
       9   66   95   98   57  2.8  100    3 Oregon
      13   78   92   90   65  2.7   99    8 Penn State
      -3   12  113  112   15  4.1  113    1 Pennsylvania
       5   38  102  104   33  3.3  105    2 Pitt
       2    3  120  118    1  4.9  121    2 Princeton
                          71  2.6   98      Purdue
       5   38  102  104   33  3.3  105    2 Rice
     -15   18  111  111   33  3.3  105   -6 Rochester
       5   26  107  108   21  3.8  110    3 Rutgers
      33   90   87   86   57  2.2   94    7 Saint Louis
      54   54   98   97       2.5   97   -1 South Carolina
                              1.3   84      Southern Baptist Seminary
      -6   70   94   94   76  2.9  101    7 Southern California
                         121  1.3   84      Southwestern Baptist Semi
     -43    8  117  118   51  4.9  121    4 Stanford
     -72   49   99   99  121  3.1  103    4 Suny Binghamton
     -37   59   97   98   96  2.8  100    2 Suny Buffalo
      33   34  103  103    1  3.0  102   -1 Suny Stony Brook
      -3   54   98   98   57  2.8  100    2 Syracuse
     -26   45  100  109   71  2.6   98   -7 Temple
     -10   72   93   93   82  2.4   96    3 Tennessee
       3   23  109  109   20  3.9  111    2 Texas
                          88  2.3   95      Texas A&M
      -9  100   84   83  109  1.8   90    6 Texas Christian
      -7  102   83   84  109  1.8   90    6 Texas tech
     -27   78   92   90  105  1.9   91    0 Toledo
       7   54   98   97   47  3.0  102    4 Tulane
      -4   78   92   93   82  2.4   96    3 Utah
      -2   31  105  105   33  3.3  105    0 Vanderbilt
       5   21  110  112   16  4.0  112    1 Virginia
       1   24  108  109   23  3.7  109    1 Washington (Seattle)
       5   38  102  103   33  3.3  105    2 Washington (St Louis)
       9   97   85   87   88  2.3   95    9 Washington State
     -10   78   92   89   88  2.3   95    4 Wayne State
     -13   90   87   85  103  2.0   92    6 West Virginia
                          42  3.2  104      William & Mary
       1   10  115  114    9  4.4  116    2 Wisconsin
       0    1  121  121    1  4.9  121    0 Yale

    An abridged version of the report appeared in US News & World
    Report on March 23, 1992. This listing comes from Change magazine
    (Nov/Dec 1992) pp 20-45 esp pp 28-30 (see also some highly
    critical letters, p 46-52.)  Economics, English, Political
    Science, Psychology and Sociology departments are also ranked.

  For 1982: National Academy of Sciences, AN ASSESSMENT OF RESEARCH-
  DOCTORATE PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES: SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL
  SCIENCES (Washington: National Academy Press, 1982), Table
  6.1, pp. 90-101.
      QUALITY (col 3) Mean ranking of scholarly quality
      of program faculty
      TRAINING (col 4) Effectiveness of program of program in educating
      research scholars.
     The scores in col 3, 4, 7 are standardized z-scores with mean of
      100 & standard deviation of 10.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU