Sitting around wasting time adding up numbers. Here's a ranking that comes from adding all the means of the area scores for the top 20 overall departments.
1. NYU 109
2.Michigan 104
3. Harvard 92
4. Princeton 90
5. stanford 87
6. Pitt 86
7. Notre Dame 82
8. Columbia 80.5
9. Yale 71
10 Rutgers 70.5
11Berkeley 70
12 MIT 67.5
13 UNC 66
14 USC 59
15 CUNY 58.5
16 Brown 57
17 Arizona 55.5
18 UCLA 53.5
19 Cornell 50
20 Chicago 45
So, first, I have no idea what to make of any of this. Just playing around.
Second, I do think that there is some serious over-counting of areas in this method of amalgamating. 15 total points in math, as many as ethics. Shortly - because I'm obsessed - I will do this again collapsing a few of the specialty areas that strike me as not adding really new strengths.
Third, I have probably made some calculation errors. Feel free to check if you are out to waste time like me.
Fourth, schools start getting very close to one another once you are out of the top 8. (Note the big drop from 8-9.) I couldn't resist calculating georgetown, and though ranked overall 36th, we come in at 40.5.
Fifth - of course all this relies on the rankings provided by the PGR reviewers. It is just another way of amalgamating those rankings. But I think the fact that there are such differences even within these rankings is interesting.
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