Independent Review Ranks Annenberg Tops among Communication Ph.D. Programs
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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PHILADELPHIA – The
Annenberg School for Communication was rated the number one Ph.D. program in the country in terms of academic productivity, besting programs at prestigious universities throughout the United States.
The Third Annual Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, as measured by the an independent agency – Academic Analytics – ranked the school number one overall and number one in three out of five key categories. The rankings are being reported in the November 16 edition of
The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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The Chronicle,. The for-profit Academic Analytics, owned in part by the State University of New York at Stony Brook, recently compiled its ranking of graduate programs at research universities based on what purports to be the first objective measurement of per-capita scholarly accomplishment.
The ranking cited Annenberg as the number one school in terms of Communication and Communication Studies, and ranked it number one in three out of five key measurements – Books per Faculty, Percentage of Faculty with a Journal Publication, and Percentage of Faculty with a Journal Publication cited by another work. Annenberg also ranked near the top in terms of Percentage of Faculty with a Published Book, and Journal Publications per Faculty.
The index examines faculty members who are listed on a Ph.D. program’s web site. Faculty members are judged on as many as five factors, depending on the most important variables in the given discipline: books published; journal publications; citations of journal articles; federal-grant dollars awarded; and honors and awards.
Annenberg finished first overall, with a faculty scholarly productivity index of 2.77 – far ahead of other schools in the top 10, which included Purdue University, the University of Texas at Austin, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, New York University, the University of California at San Diego, and the University of Iowa.