Academic

US News History Department Rankings

By Alfred Brophy

Amidst all the talk of US News' law school rankings, we might forget that US News ranks other programs--including, this year, history departments.  Here's a link to them.  The history rankings rely exclusively on peer assessment scores.  

There's a four way tie for first--Berkeley, Princeton, Sanford, and Yale, each at 4.8); Harvard and University of Chicago are close behind at 4.7.  Chapel Hill and Cornell are tied for twelfth at 4.4.  Also, there are specialty rankings for areas like African American History and Colonial American History--though not Southern history.  

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).