Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Context and Motivation; 5 3 Study Design; 6 4 The Methodologies Used to Derive Two Illustrative Rankings; 7 5 Faculty Values as Reflected in the Two Illustrative Rankings; 8 6 Some Uses of the Data; 9 7 The Data and Principal Findings; 10 8 Looking Ahead; 11 Appendixes; 12 Appendix A: Committee Biographies; 13 Appendix B: Taxonomy of Fields; 14 Appendix C: Participating Institutions; 15 Appendix D: Questionnaires; 16 Appendix E: List of Variables; 17 Appendix F: R and S Coefficients by Fields; 18 Appendix G: Correlation of the Median R and S Rankings by Broad Field; 19 Appendix H: Detail for the Rating Study; 20 Appendix I: Count of Ranked and Unranked Programs by Field; 21 Appendix J: A Technical Discussion of the Process of Rating and Ranking Programs in a Field