Which Philosophy Grad Programs Are Accepting Fewer or No Applications for Next Year?
A reader says she has heard rumors of some departments of philosophy deciding to not accept any applications to their graduate programs, or to offer admission to a smaller number of applicants, this year (for students who would be starting in Fall 2026).
If your department is doing something along these lines, please let us know in the comments. (If you could share why, that would be helpful, too.)
The Philosophy Grad Program Spreadsheet does not appear to have been fully updated for the coming application season yet, so don’t rely on that for answering this query.
Thank you.
Here at CU Boulder we were told today that PhD admissions will be business as usual.
UChicago posted that they will be reducing the number of applicants that they are accepting for philosophy, as well as cutting completely graduate admissions for other related humanities graduate programs (such as their Social Thought program, some of their language programs, and their English lit program).
The Philosophy Department at Rutgers has posted on their website that they will not be accepting grad students for the upcoming year.
Spreadsheet is being updated 🙂 So far Rutgers is the only one that has been flagged as not admitting, however there are a handful of other schools that are “announcing deadlines” in Sept 2025 and a few grad school websites noted that the school was still determining impacts to admissions. Not quite halfway through the updates for the PhDs.
Stanford told me earlier in the year that they’d be admitting fewer grad students in philosophy
Georgetown announced recently that they will not admit a PhD cohort for Fall 26.