Academic Rankings

Yesterday, my husband came across this rankings system for academic graduate programs. I'm wondering if any of you are familiar with it? I wasn't aware of it before now, but it appears to be a new rankings system. Here are the top ten graduate programs in Religious Studies in alphabetical order according to Academic Analytics. The highlighting is mine.

Religious Studies & Theology

  • Duke University
  • Emory University
  • Harvard University
  • Marquette University
  • New York University
  • Rice University
  • Union Theological Seminary - New York
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Westminster Theological Seminary
  • Yale University

  • Update 5-25-07: Patrick McCullough sent this information and links to other articles about this ranking system.

    "But here I see that it measures these schools on the Academic output of its faculty (they call it the "Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index"). Here's a Chronicle article about their method and how they came to be."