Moving up: GSU, Northeastern, Penn State, Rutgers, UCI.
Dropping: UMSL, Albany, American, FSU, UF, Sam Houston.
No real movement: Maryland, Cincy.
Top 12
1. UCI
2. Penn State
3. Maryland
4. Northeastern
5. Albany
6. Temple
7. Cincy
8. GSU
9. Northeastern
10. Rutgers
11. UPenn
11. UMSL
12. FSU
I’d flip the first two based on objective criteria. Penn State has multiple Cavan winners and ASC Fellows, they routinely publish in top Soc and Crim outlets, and their grad students do really well (national awards and placements). Irvine is very good, too, but they are a few years away from catching Penn State on objective metrics. Beyond this, Albany is too high still, there’s only one northeastern, and FSU hasn’t fallen THAT much.
Top 10
1. Penn State
2. UCI
3. Maryland
4. Northeastern
5. Temple
6. Cinci
7. FSU
8. GSU
9. Rutgers
10. Albany
temple is too high. ASU and MSU should both be higher than temple. neither is even on this list.
I�d flip the first two based on objective criteria. Penn State has multiple Cavan winners and ASC Fellows, they routinely publish in top Soc and Crim outlets, and their grad students do really well (national awards and placements). Irvine is very good, too, but they are a few years away from catching Penn State on objective metrics. Beyond this, Albany is too high still, there�s only one northeastern, and FSU hasn�t fallen THAT much.
Top 10
1. Penn State
2. UCI
3. Maryland
4. Northeastern
5. Temple
6. Cinci
7. FSU
8. GSU
9. Rutgers
10. Albany
I think ASU and FSU should be higher than Northeastern and I think Albany and Cinci are below Temple at this point but the top 3 looks solid.
Reasonable points, unintended omissions.
Updated:
Top 10
1. Penn State
2. UCI
3. Maryland
4. Northeastern
5. ASU
6. Cinci
7. FSU
8. GSU
9. Rutgers
10. MSU
10. Albany
10. Temple
Seems like there is some convergence on who is IN the top 10, just not where they are ranked. For what its worth...
1. Penn State
2. UCI
3. Arizona State
4. Northeastern
5. Maryland
6. Cinci
7. Albany
8. GSU
9. Rutgers
10. Temple or George Mason
There is no way that FSU, University of Florida, Michigan State, Sam Houston, University of Central Florida, American U or U. of South Florida are in the top 10.
All have either a bunch of scandals, a bunch of weak recent hires, or a bunch of key firings/quittings/retirements.
Seems like there is some convergence on who is IN the top 10, just not where they are ranked. For what its worth...
1. Penn State
2. UCI
3. Arizona State
4. Northeastern
5. Maryland
6. Cinci
7. Albany
8. GSU
9. Rutgers
10. Temple or George Mason
There is no way that FSU, University of Florida, Michigan State, Sam Houston, University of Central Florida, American U or U. of South Florida are in the top 10.
All have either a bunch of scandals, a bunch of weak recent hires, or a bunch of key firings/quittings/retirements.
So then how is Albany in top ten? And Northeastern?
This is a valid point, at least as far as Albany goes. Their demotion to a department comes after a few years of wacky behavior on the part of certain faculty (especially the Wordens and SB). They've been hit-or-miss with junior hires, especially JPick. I wonder if they would have been better off merging with Sociology (where you have heavy hitters like Steve Messner).
Seems like there is some convergence on who is IN the top 10, just not where they are ranked. For what its worth...
1. Penn State
2. UCI
3. Arizona State
4. Northeastern
5. Maryland
6. Cinci
7. Albany
8. GSU
9. Rutgers
10. Temple or George Mason
There is no way that FSU, University of Florida, Michigan State, Sam Houston, University of Central Florida, American U or U. of South Florida are in the top 10.
All have either a bunch of scandals, a bunch of weak recent hires, or a bunch of key firings/quittings/retirements.
So then how is Albany in top ten? And Northeastern?
^ Not that I think Albany is a strong crim dept, but how is JP a weak junior hire. I'd argue he's the strongest junior on faculty Dude publishes like 10 articles a year, always in top journals. Generous mentor, publishes with students frequently. Takes his job seriously. There have been some vague allusions to him being "difficult" on this site but nothing concrete.
JP, for FFS, do you not have anything better to do?! It is well known that you spend hours a week on this board self-promoting and smearing. Get some help. Maybe your wife would treat you better if you were not such an angry troll.
^ Not that I think Albany is a strong crim dept, but how is JP a weak junior hire. I'd argue he's the strongest junior on faculty Dude publishes like 10 articles a year, always in top journals. Generous mentor, publishes with students frequently. Takes his job seriously. There have been some vague allusions to him being "difficult" on this site but nothing concrete.
My department would never hire JP or any of his PhD students. My former department has adopted a similar position. They apply we hit delete. Same at many other schools. His PhD students are tainted. Many criminologists agree that JP crossed boundaries and morphed into a Sean Hannity like an/gry tr/ll. He also lied about who was authoring his documents and who he was coordinating with throughout. He complained about dishonesty but he himself was dishonest. The OJ analogy is good. These are just facts.
The guy trolls this board all day.
You just come off as a d/o/u/c/h/e. You seem to take this situation awfully personal to blacklist graduate students that probably had to nothing to do with it, and especially since ES was so clearly exposed as a fraud.