Best Philosophy Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Great Lakes Region that made our Best Philosophy Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Philosophy School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of philosophy for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality philosophy program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to philosophy students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other philosophy students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized philosophy related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for philosophy students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Great Lakes Region

As a result of missing data, we could not provide you with the philosophy quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Great Lakes Region that both offer philosophy and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other Philosophy rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Philosophy ranking.

Best Philosophy Colleges by State

Explore the best philosophy colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	273	30
Michigan	257	8
Ohio	253	8
Indiana	202	18
Wisconsin	163	8

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Rankings in Majors Related to Philosophy

Philosophy is one of 4 different types of Philosophy programs to choose from.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.