Rankings of Ph.D. Programs in Religious Studies and Theology
National Research Council
1995
Ranking by
Scholarly Quality
Scholarly Quality
(0-5 score)
Effectiveness in Teaching PhD Candidates (0-5 and rank)
  1. University of Chicago
  2. Harvard University
  3. Princeton University
  4. Duke University
  5. *Emory University
  6. University of Virginia
  7. Vanderbilt University
  8. *Princeton Theological Seminary
  9. University of California Santa Barbara
  10. University of Pennsylvania
  11. *Jewish Theological Seminary
  12. *University of Notre Dame
  13. *Hebrew Union College
  14. Columbia University
  15. Brown University
  16. University of Illinois (C-U)
  17. *Union Theological Seminary
  18. Stanford University
  19. Johns Hopkins University
  20. Claremont Graduate School
  21. Drew University
  22. University of Rochester
  23. Boston University
  24. Northwestern University
  25. *Catholic University of America
  26. Temple University
  27. Syracuse University
  28. University of Iowa

     * Theology/Divinity schools

4.76
4.73
4.33
4.25
4.05
3.96
3.85
3.84
3.82
3.74
3.74
3.73
3.71
3.57
3.55
3.51
3.08
3.05
3.03
3.02
3.02
2.95
2.93
2.91
2.90
2.84
2.83
2.83

4.01 (2)
4.10 (1)
3.89 (4)
3.90 (3)
3.59 (6)
3.46 (9)
3.50 (8)
3.61 (5)
3.33 (11)
3.22 (14)
3.26 (12)
3.24 (13)
3.53 (7)
3.40 (10)
3.26 (12)
3.33 (11)
3.10 (16)
3.20 (15)
2.97 (18)
2.78 (20)
2.76 (21)
3.04 (17)
2.90 (19)
2.73 (23)
2.74 (22)
2.55 (26)
2.65 (24)
2.58 (25)