# Philosophical Gourmet Report

The Philosophical Gourmet Report, also known as the Leiter Report or PGR, is a ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world. It was founded by philosophy and law professor Brian Leiter and is now edited by philosophy professors Berit Brogaard and Christopher Pynes.

## History
### 20th century

The Gourmet Report ranking was created in response to the Gourman Report, and is based on a survey of philosophers who are nominated as evaluators by the report's advisory board. Its purpose is to provide guidance to prospective PhD students, particularly those students who intend to pursue a professional career in academic philosophy. The report first appeared on the web in 1996; it is currently published and distributed by Blackwell.
In 1989, while he was a graduate student, Leiter made a subjective list of what he believed to be the top 25 graduate philosophy programs in the United States, which came to be the PGR.

### 21st century

PGR was described by David L. Kirp in a 2003 New York Times op-ed as "the bible for prospective [philosophy] graduate students." Carlin Romano, in America the Philosophical (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013), referred to the PGR rankings as "often-criticized" and "biased towards mainstream analytic departments".
In 2002, 175 philosophers signed an open letter calling on Leiter to stop producing the PGR. In fall 2014, over 600 philosophers signed a petition to boycott the PGR. The petition was organized by some philosophers at the University of British Columbia to protest what they called a "derogatory and intimidating" e-mail sent by Leiter to one of their colleagues. Leiter claimed the recipient had threatened him. Twenty-four of the 56 members of the advisory board of the PGR recommended he relinquish control over the report's management. In response, Leiter appointed Berit Brogaard, a philosophy professor at the University of Miami, as co-editor for the 2014 report and agreed to step down as editor of subsequent editions. Leiter subsequently appointed Christopher Pynes of Western Illinois University as co-editor of future editions.

## 2021-22 global rankings (Top 25)

| Rank (2021–22) | School | Country |
| 1 | New York University | New York City, U.S. |
| 2 | Oxford University | Oxford, UK |
| 3 | Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 4 | Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 5 | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 6 | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
| 6 | Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| 8 | University of Toronto | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| 9 | Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 9 | MIT | Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 9 | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| 9 | UCLA | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| 9 | USC | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| 14 | Graduate Center, CUNY | New York City, U.S. |
| 14 | Columbia University | New York City, U.S. |
| 14 | Stanford University | Stanford, California, U.S. |
| 14 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. |
| 14 | University of Notre Dame | South Bend, Indiana, U.S. |
| 19 | University of Texas, Austin | Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| 20 | Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| 20 | University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK |
| 22 | Cornell University | Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| 22 | University of California, San Diego | San Diego, California, U.S. |
| 22 | University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 25 | Australian National University | Canberra, Australia |
| 25 | University of Arizona | Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| 25 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |