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Message: [QUOTE="husky429, post: 4385089, member: 6696"] My wife is in academia--they definitely think they are a joke. If nothing else, the quality of education isn't reflected in these rankings. Plenty of those great research profs at UConn and other R1 schools are terrible, terrible teachers of human beings. The rankings by department on subject-specific websites are given more weight (and they're still not very good). Rutgers randomly has the 2nd best philosophy grad program in the country. No one outside the field would ever think "oh a PhD from Rutgers is elite," but it's ranked better than anywhere but NYU. I think UConn's is like 30. [/QUOTE]