DePaul was named #1
today for faculty research productivity in the nation. There are two
categories. The first is for universities with 15 or more doctoral
programs – Harvard won this category. The second category is for
institutions with 14 or less doctoral programs. DePaul is #1 in this
category.
The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, partly financed by the State University of New York at Stony Brook and produced by Academic Analytics, a for-profit company, rates faculty members’ scholarly output at nearly 7,300 doctoral programs around the country. It examines the number of book and journal articles published by each program’s faculty, as well as journal citations, awards, honors, and grants received. The company has given The Chronicle exclusive access to some of its data, including rankings of the top 10 programs in 104 disciplines.
The most recent index, based on data from 2005, contains plenty of surprises. Some relatively unknown programs rank higher than Ivy League and other institutions with sterling reputations. Take English. The index ranks the University of Georgia at No. 2, while Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, and Yale Universities, and the Universities of Pennsylvania and of Virginia don’t even crack the top 10.
Also Number 1 in Diversity according to Princeton Review.
