<p>
Not a very useful one. Look at the subject areas it claims to rank. Only 3 areas - English, modern languages, and philosophy - are actually in the humanities. Among the missing subject areas are:</p>
<ul>
<li>[Insert] studies</li>
<li>Art history</li>
<li>Classics</li>
<li>Gender studies</li>
<li>Music (theory/history)</li>
<li>Religion </li>
<li>Theatre</li>
</ul>
<p>The best ranking (if one insists on having one) of humanities programs remains the old 1995 NRC ranking, though I would personally tweak it a little, particularly for undergraduates – for example, the same options are not always available to a CUNY undergrad as someone at the CUNY Graduate Center, and some of NYU’s most prestigious humanities programs are open to graduate students only (IFA, ISAW, etc.).</p>
<ol>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>UCI</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>UT Austin</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>CUNY</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Indiana</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>Illinois</li>
</ol>