"Exploring Ways to Shorten the Ascent to a Ph.D." (New York Times)

<p>Many graduate schools do post such information; I’ve seen it, for example, for Princeton, Columbia, UCLA. It is generally no mystery which are the top schools in any particular subject. Generally, for the humanities, they are the top Ivy League schools plus Stanford and University of Chicago and some top public schools (UC Berkeley, U Michigan, for example).</p>