<p>from [Rutgers</a>, Philosophy: - A History of the Philosophy Department at Rutgers University](<a href=“Rutgers University :: Department of Philosophy”>Rutgers University :: Department of Philosophy) “In the 2009 rankings of the Philosophical Gourmet Report, a ranking of philosophy departments in the English speaking world based on the judgments of over three hundred professional philosophers, the Department of Philosophy was ranked third overall, behind only NYU and Oxford University. Furthermore, it was ranked as one of the top three programs in the English speaking world in the Philosophy of Mind, one of the top two in Epistemology, one of the top four in Metaphysics, and as the overall top program in the English speaking world in the Philosophy of Language.” </p>
<p>at one point it was ranked number one, but that was in 2002 ([Rutgers</a> Focus - Philosophy department rated number one](<a href=“http://ur.rutgers.edu/focus/article/Philosophy%20department%20rated%20number%20one/1019/]Rutgers”>http://ur.rutgers.edu/focus/article/Philosophy%20department%20rated%20number%20one/1019/)) and number two, but that was in 2006 (<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14njphilosophy.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14njphilosophy.html</a>).</p>