Are the Philosophy and Pol Sci majors "quality" at NYU?

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<p>Lexis,</p>

<p>I was a phil. major, and I would say the philosophy department at NYU is very top notch. The philosophy department gets ranked very highly (at or near the top) in almost every survey. </p>

<p>This ranking has NYU tied with Princeton for #1 in philosophy (the ranking was done primarily on faculty quality). </p>

<p><a href="http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/2004/overall.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/2004/overall.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>NYU's philosophy dept. has been notorious for poaching top professors from Ivy league schools and was the subject of a whole book on bidding wars for well known profs. amongst America's elite colleges (the book is "Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education," its by a Berkeley prof. named David Kirp).</p>

<p>Here is a link to the department itself:
<a href="http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>