Nine University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral programs have been ranked high in a faculty productivity index featured in the Jan. 12 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education, including the geography department, which ranked second in the nation.
Other CU-Boulder programs ranked in the top 10 included physical oceanography (4), communication (6), cognitive science (7), atmospheric sciences (8), chemical engineering (8), biomedical engineering (9), civil and environmental engineering (9) and aeronautical and aerospace engineering (10).
The ranking, known as the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, rated the scholarly output of faculty members at more than 7,000 doctoral programs across the country.Ìý
Funded in part by the State University of New York at Stony Brook and produced by Academic Analytics of Chester, Penn., the index was compiled by examining the number of book and journal articles published by each program's faculty as well as journal citations, awards, honors and grants received. The index was based on data from 2005.
“We were extremely pleased to see this new ranking, which shows that we have many talented faculty members in the geography department,” said CU-Boulder geography department chair, Professor Susan Beatty. “We are very dedicated to teaching and we believe outstanding research by our faculty benefits our students immensely.”