<p>I’m sure it is obvious to most, but the Title of this and similary threads really should be: “Ranking of University Ph.D.-devoted Faculties”. While the strength of a Faculty is critical to Ph.D. research, it is much less so to undergraduate students. </p>
<p>Further to that, there is a logical irrelvance to whole-University rankings at the Ph.D. level. Who would pick a Ph.D. program in Lingustics based on the strength of the Faculty in Physics? They wouldn’t even pick based on the strength of Faculty in Linguistics… they’d pick based on THEIR advisor, not an aggregate of all the advisors.</p>
<p>So what we’ve got here is a Ph.D. Faculty ranking that is not terribly relevant to undergraduates, and completely irrelevant to Ph.D. candidates.</p>