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and Ph.D.s and Time to Completion (in years) Time Time Time Time Baylor 16 2 10 5 5 5 5 11 6 Boston Colleges Boston 18 23 3 8 6 5 7 6 7 5 6 6 7 Bowling Green State -Main 27 1 12 4 7 1 7-8 4 7-8 4 7-8 1 7-8 Brown 12 20 2 3 5 1 6 1 6 3 7 3 7 Carnegie Mellon 9 9 2 3 6 3 5.33 0 n/a 0 n/a 3 5.5 Catholic of America 0 3.3 23 3 6.6 8 8.5 6 9.5 3 8.5 Claremont Graduate Columbia in the City of New York 0 14 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 15 20 1 5 7 2 5 3 6 2 7 4 7 Cornell 13 10 12 4 2.8 (from 3 2.8 5 3.4 4 2.6 4 3.7 day of A- exam) CUNY Graduate School and Center DePaul 21 12 24 5 8.5 2 8.5 3 7 3 9 6 8 Duke Duquesne 15 15 15 6 7 5 8 4 6 3 8 4 7 Emory 30 6 16 8 6 8 6 7 6.5 5 7 5 7 Florida State 35 2 8 3 6 4 6 7 6 2 6 Fordham 29 9 27 7 8 9 8.5 5 7.5 6 7.5 7 6.5 Georgetown 37 0 11 4 7.25 4 6.75 2 7 4 6.5 2 7 Harvard 23.75 45 0 6 8.16 5 8.6 5 7.6 7 8.42 Indiana - Bloomington 26 5 12 6 7.5 5 7.25 1 5.25 2 13 6 10
and Ph.D.s and Time to Completion (in years) Time Time Time Time Johns Hopkins Loyola Chicago 12 11 7 4 7 3 10 17 2 4 8 6.6 6 6.8 9 6.8 10 6.3 6 6.5 Marquette 14 2 8 7 6.5 7 13 1 13 1 13 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michigan State New School for Social Research 17 8 0 12 5.5 7 7 6 5.5 5 5.5 6 6 18 4 15 4 7.5 3 6.3 0 NA 5 5.6 3 5.3 23 11 8 10 8 3 10 12 7 New York 15 34 3 7 6-7 5 6 2 7 8 7 4 7 Northwestern 17 5 3 3 5 4 7.63 2 6.3 Ohio State - 32 4 20 5 8.2 2 5 7 7.57 2 7 1 7 Pennsylvania State -Main 27 6 21 8 8.1 4 7.25 8 6.3 Princeton 16 50 0 4 6.25 5 6.2 3 5.7 11 6.5 6 6.3 Purdue - 26 4 17 9 7.5 5 5.8 9 6.4 3 6.3 6 5.9 Rice 18 16 4 4 6 0 5 8 1 10 Rutgers - New Brunswick Saint Louis - Southern Illinois Carbondale 18.5 20 12 5 5 7 5 6 5 4 5 9 5 24 0 12 8 6 2 5 3 5 to 6 10 7 2 6 Stanford 0 36 4 7 6 5 6 6 6 4 5.5 5 6 Stony Brook 27 9 22 6 7.3 13 7 7 7.5 10 7 7 8
and Ph.D.s and Time to Completion (in years) Time Time Time Time SUNY at Binghamton 20 1.5 5 4 6 6 5 3 6 1 4 2 Syracuse 24 2 9 7 11.1 2 7 4 10.5 2 6 5 6.8 Temple 12 3 10 5 6 4 6 2 6 Texas A & M 13.5 4.5 7 3 6 2 6 6 3 6 Tulane of Louisiana 12 2 9 2 8 1 5 1 11 2 7 at Albany- SUNY 13 0 6 0 1 6 2 6.5 1 8 at Buffalo 23 3 9 7 10 7 6 7 11 7 of Arizona 16 6 16 7 7 6 7 1 7 8 7 of Arkansas of California- Berkeley of California- Davis 40 quarterlong 11 quarterlong 7 1 6 4 7.5 5 8.6 1 6 1? of California- Irvine (Logic and Philosophy of Science) 30 20 5 3 5.6 3 7.3 3 7.6 2 5 1 5 of California- Irvine (Philosophy) 24 6 3 3 7 3 7 1 6 2 7 of California- Los Angeles of California- Riverside 21 1 2 7 6 4 7 6 5.5 5 6 3 6 of California- San Diego 4 7 2 7 5 7 7 4 2 7 of California- Santa Barbara 39.5 8 8 4 7.25 4 7.75 3 6.75 2 7.5 of California- Santa Cruz 32 4 2 3 7 3 6 2 6 N/A N/A
and Ph.D.s and Time to Completion (in years) Time Time Time Time of Chicago 40 quarterlong 34 12 6 9.5 7 varies 6 varies 6 varies n/a varies of Cincinnati- 16 3 1 1 6 3 6 2 6 NA 3 8 of Colorado Boulder 17 6 11 5 9 4 9 6 12 5 15 of Connecticut of Dallas 7 1 6 6 8 N/A N/A of Florida 9 4 5.75 2 7.5 5 5 2 4.5 of Georgia 14 2 8 3 8 1 6 1 8 3 7 of Hawaii at Manoa 7 2 4 8 6 1 8 5 8 3 7 of Illinois at Chicago of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 25 4 8 4 7 5 7 3 7 3 7 1 7 28 7 5 4 8.5 4 8.5 2 8 1 7.5 3 8 of Iowa 15 2 7 4 5.4 5 5.4 5 7.8 4 6.6 4 6.4 of Kansas 22 0 3 2 7.5 4 8 2 8 2 8 5 9 of Kentucky of Maryland- College Park of Massachusetts Amherst 24 6 3 3 7.6 1 7 6 7.8 7 6.4 29 4 17 3 6.5 4 6 7 5.5 4 7 1 8 of Memphis 24 14 5 5 5 6 2 6 2 6 4 6 of Miami 20 0 20 4 6 2 6 2 5 1 12 1 8 of Michigan- Ann Arbor 18 18 11 3 7.5 7 5.85 8 6.75 9 6.77 4 6.75 of Minnesota-Twin Cities 19 4.5 10 4 8 1 8 5 8 5 8
and Ph.D.s and Time to Completion (in years) Time Time Time Time of Missouri- Columbia 20 2.5 2 9.5 3 6.3 2 6.5 7 8.8 of Nebraska- Lincoln 1 3 2 6.5 1 8 3 11 0 1 8 of New Mexico- 9.5 13 1 12 2 10 1 6 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of North Texas of Notre Dame of Oklahoma Norman 29 17 18 12 7.6 8 8.3 9 6.7 7 7.8 2 7.9 18 3 12 4 8 3 6.7 3 6 0 2 6.5 of Oregon 24 2 4 7 6 4 6.5 3 6.7 1 5 4 6.5 of Pennsylvania of Pittsburgh (History and Philosophy of Science) of Pittsburgh (Philosophy) 12 15 0 5 6.33 6 6.7 7 7.5 5 7.2 7 7.5 16 14 6 2 7 2 6 1 7 3 7.5 0 19 22 1 8 9 13 10 1 8 2 10.5 9 9 of Rochester 9 3 3 4 9 2 11 5 9 5 7 2 10 of South Carolina-Columbia of South Florida- of Southern California of St Thomas (Houston) 24 4 30 8 4 6.19 4 7.23 7 6.39 0
and Ph.D.s and Time to Completion (in years) Time Time Time Time of Tennessee-Knoxvillle of Texas at Austin of the Incarnate Word of Utah of Virginia- of Washington-Seattle of Wisconsin-Madison 20 1 7 4 6.25 3 6.7 2 8 1 7 NA 44 3 4 6 6 13 6 7 6 2 6 6 15 7 3 6 5 8 7 3 7 2 7 4 7 23 4 12 4 7 0 0 3 7 5 8 2 7 24 6 6 14 8 6 8 6 13 4 10 5 8 Vanderbilt 25 1 15 5 7 6 8 3 9 6 8 Villanova 6 18 24 3 8 2 8 5 8 6 8 3 8 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Washington in St. Louis 16 7 2 5 7 5 7 6 7 4 7 3 7 Wayne State 8 1 12 8.5 0 8.5 1 8.5 8.5 Yale Fall 13 10 2 4 6 4 6 4 6 4 6 3 6 Spring 15