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Old 05-12-2008, 05:49 PM   #1
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best schools for subject areas?

(all for undergrad programs)
best schools for art history (besides williams and yale)?

best schools for philosophy?

best schools for history?

best schools for sociology?

best schools for societal mathenatics (-i. e. nashian mathematical theory)?
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Old 05-12-2008, 07:11 PM   #2
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It's not official, but some top names are...

Art History: UVA, Stanford, Brown, Yale, Berkeley, UCLA, NYU.

Philosophy: Stanford, Brown, Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell, Pittsburgh.

History: Honestly, any school will have a good history program....

Sociology: ^ Ditto.
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Old 05-12-2008, 07:25 PM   #3
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Take a look at Gourman Rankings.
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Old 05-13-2008, 08:17 AM   #4
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thanks for the feedback!
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Old 05-13-2008, 09:20 AM   #5
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Add NYU for the philosophy category
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Old 05-13-2008, 10:19 AM   #6
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Although a bit dated (from the 1990s, but scheduled to be updated later this year), the National Research Council (NRC) rankings of graduate programs are highly respected, and can provide a pretty good idea of how schools rank in various fields, including those about which you asked:

NRC Rankings in Each of 41 Areas

Other than the Gourman rankings, which are somewhat controversial, there really aren't any undergraduate-specific rankings of individual liberal arts programs, so the graduate rankings (like NRC) are used as proxies.
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Old 05-13-2008, 10:33 AM   #7
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Use the advanced search option on CC

under key words type Gourman then the name of the subject
under username type collegehelp
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