Tag: graduate programs
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Graduate Admissions in the AI Era
Are applicants to your graduate program using AI to create their admissions materials? Do you know? How? And what, if anything, should your department…
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Unions, 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.
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Placement, Program Ratings, Student Comments, and Keywords: an APDA Update (guest post)
What’s the latest data about philosophy graduate programs?
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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.
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New: Online Master’s Program in Applied Ontology
The University at Buffalo is launching a fully online program in applied ontology.
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Harvard Cuts PhD Admissions
Harvard University is drastically cutting the number of PhD students it is admitting over the next two years.
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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…
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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…
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Why Do Philosophy PhD Programs Even Exist? (guest post)
What is the point of a philosophy PhD program?
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New Edition of “Gourmet” Philosophy PhD Program Rankings
The 2024 edition of the Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR) has been published.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Are We Less Rankings-Obsessed Than We Used To Be?
“Is there a way to reduce the obsession over rankings in our discipline?”
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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?
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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…