The Spanish Ph.D. program in the School of International Letters & Cultures at Arizona State University has just been ranked number 7 in the U.S. by "The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index," an annual index that includes a method for evaluating doctoral programs at Research Universities in the U.S.
The Spanish Ph.D. program at ASU is becoming one of the leading innovative graduate programs in the U.S. and in the Southwest. Recognizing the many demands put upon the scholar in the modern world and the wide variety of specialized interests, the Spanish Ph.D. program at ASU makes every attempt to work with the students and plan a program of study that will best prepare the doctoral candidates for a productive career in the discipline of Hispanic studies. The Ph.D. degree in Spanish currently offers two concentrations: Literature and Cultural Studies. The members of the Spanish Faculty are broadly international, educated in the U.S., Latin America and Spain. They are all fully involved both in the undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. The strengths of the faculty include several periods and genres of Peninsular Spanish and Latin American literatures and cultures, including Mexican American literature and culture. The large student body of the Spanish Ph.D. program comes from all parts of the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and elsewhere.
According to the The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, the Spanish Ph.D. program at ASU is currently ranked number 7 in the U.S, just after top programs such as those at the University of California Davis, Tulane University, Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This outstanding ranking for the scholarly productivity of the faculty members of the Spanish Ph.D. program at ASU comes just a few months before the official launching of the new School of International Letters & Cultures in the Division of Humanities and in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU. This ranking confirms the hard work on the part of a lot of individuals at ASU, particularly in the case of the faculty members and graduate students in the Spanish Ph.D. program.
The Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index is produced on an annual basis and it is a method for evaluating doctoral programs at Research Universities (across all Carnegie research classifications), based on a set of statistical algorithms. It measures the annual productivity of faculty on several factors including publications (books and journal articles), citations of journal publications, federal research funding, awards and honors. This Index is unique in its focus on concrete data relating to faculty scholarly productivity. It contains no reputational assessments, and is unrivaled in the depth and detail of its content, even compiling data in areas where other assessments have found difficulty.
For more information: you can read about it in "The Chronicle of Higher Education" (Nov. 16, 2007 issue) and also in the direct link to Academics Analytics: http://www.academicanalytics.com/TopHumanities2006-07.html