graduate programs
TagUnions, Strikes, and the Financial Satisfaction of Philosophy PhD Students
In its 2023 and 2025 surveys, Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (APDA) asked current PhD students to rate their satisfaction with their financial situation. (more…)
Placement, Program Ratings, Student Comments, and Keywords: an APDA Update (guest post)
What’s the latest data about philosophy graduate programs? (more…)
Georgetown Philosophy Suspends PhD Admissions for Fall 2026
The Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University will not be accepting any PhD students for the 2026-2027 academic year. (more…)
Current & Recent Philosophy Grad Students: APDA Is Reaching Out
If you’re a current philosophy PhD student or received your PhD within the past decade, Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) wants to make sure you’re counted in its 2025 survey, which is running until the end of the year. (more…)
New: Online Master’s Program in Applied Ontology
The University at Buffalo is launching a fully online program in applied ontology. (more…)
Philosophy Grad Program Application Info Spreadsheet – 2025-26 Edition
An open-access spreadsheet about philosophy graduate program admissions has been updated for the upcoming admissions season. (more…)
Harvard Cuts PhD Admissions
Harvard University is drastically cutting the number of PhD students it is admitting over the next two years. (more…)
Research-University-Biased Perceptions of Professional Philosophy
What do you do as a philosophy professor? What does it take to get a job as a philosophy professor? To get tenure? What is teaching like? What is a philosophy department like as a work environment? How much does college or university administration affect your work? What are plusses and minuses of the job? (more…)
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). (more…)
Why Do Philosophy PhD Programs Even Exist? (guest post)
What is the point of a philosophy PhD program? (more…)
New Edition of “Gourmet” Philosophy PhD Program Rankings
The 2024 edition of the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR) has been published. (more…)
First-Year “Proseminars” in Philosophy Grad Programs
Many philosophy graduate programs have a course all of their first-year students are supposed to take together. They go by different names at different institutions (proseminars, first-year seminars), have different content from school to school, of course, and even different aims. (more…)
Philosophy Grad Program Application Info Spreadsheet – 2024-25 Edition
An open-access spreadsheet about philosophy graduate program admissions which includes information about application deadlines, fees, requirements, funding packages, and so on, as well as links to the programs, has been updated for the upcoming admissions season. (more…)
Grad Program Data: Climate, Mental Health, Employment, Demographics
What do current and former graduate students think of the culture in their graduate programs? Are they satisfied with its climate? With how diverse it is? With the employment they’ve secured post graduation? With their financial situation while a graduate student? (more…)
New: an MA Program in Philosophy & Computing
The University of Bayreuth is launching a new interdisciplinary Master’s degree (MA/MSc) in Philosophy & Computer Science. (more…)
Are We Less Rankings-Obsessed Than We Used To Be?
“Is there a way to reduce the obsession over rankings in our discipline?” (more…)
Increased Philosophy Grad Program Applications?
There have been informal reports from people at various universities indicating that there are substantially more applicants to their philosophy graduate programs than in recent years. (more…)
Open Doors Philosophy Academy
The Open Doors Philosophy Academy is a philosophy summer program for undergraduates that is “designed to give individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in academic philosophy a taste of graduate student life as well as various forms of support useful in applying to and flourishing in Ph.D. programs in Philosophy.” (more…)
Reducing Time to Degree in Philosophy Doctoral Programs (guest post)
The median time-to-degree for a PhD in philosophy in the United States is nearly 7 years. Is that too long? (more…)
Deciding Between Grad Programs: What Questions to Ask? Of Whom?
Applicants to graduate programs in philosophy are now hearing from admissions committees and will have decisions to make about which to attend, or whether to go at all. (more…)
The Demand for Philosophers
Last week I was part of a panel invited to discuss “The State of Philosophy: Challenges, Threats, and Strategies” at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA). (more…)
Philosophy Grad Program Application Info Spreadsheet – 2023-24 Edition
An open-access spreadsheet about philosophy graduate program admissions which includes information about application deadlines, fees, requirements, funding packages, and so on, as well as links to the programs, has been updated for the upcoming admissions season. (more…)
New Guide to Terminal MA Programs in Philosophy
What kind of advice can you offer students trying to figure out which terminal MA program in philosophy to apply to or attend? (more…)
New Data on the Employment of Philosophy PhDs (guest post)
As noted in yesterday’s post, Academic Philosophy & Data Analysis (APDA) has completed its data gathering for nearly 150 philosophy PhD programs, with a new data dashboard capturing nearly 6,000 philosophy PhD graduates between 2013 and 2023. (more…)
New Interface for Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (guest post)
Academic Philosophy & Data Analysis (APDA), an ongoing project to collect, analyze, and distribute data about job placement, student experience, and other aspects of PhD programs in philosophy, is launching a new “data dashboard” through which people can explore the information it has collected. (more…)
“Should I Go To Graduate School in Philosophy?”
Professors (and graduate students) occasionally get asked, “should I go to graduate school in philosophy?”
The Ends and Means of a Graduate Student Conference
A graduate student in philosophy has the responsibility of organizing a graduate student conference hosted by their department, and has some questions, starting with:
1. “Why put on a graduate student conference? What should the purpose of a graduate conference be?“ (more…)
Doctoral Program Attrition (guest post)
“s it turns out, the rate of attrition from philosophy doctoral programs often exceeds 30 percent.” (more…)