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Ranking Departments: A Comparison of Alternative Approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2007

Natalie Masuoka ,
Bernard Grofman  and
Scott L. Feld
Natalie Masuoka
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Bernard Grofman
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Scott L. Feld
Affiliation:
Purdue University
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There are many different ways to develop rankings of Ph.D.-granting academic departments. Perhaps the most common method is reputational: we simply ask knowledgeable scholars in the discipline to provide their rankings and aggregate these in some fashion. Other ways involve more “objective indicators.” But, of course, departments have multiple attributes, e.g., we might be interested in how good a department is as a place to get a Ph.D., or we might be interested simply in the research record of its faculty, etc. Thus, we might want to use different indicators to measure different aspects of the department.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 531 - 537
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© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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