English phd program rankings 2009

This was the first year U. News included a psychology program ranking. Penn State ranked fourth in the U. Member States that look to improve life for all people and protect the planet. The University ranked first in the U. Penn State is ranked 54th among the best universities in the world for the quality of education of its students and the research prowess of its faculty.

Penn State is ranked at No. Penn State is ranked No. The M. Through intensive study of American Sign Language, interpretation skills, and professional experience, the M. The program requires the completion of 59 credit hours of course work. The program is available in a three-year format for students who need an additional year of advanced language classes. Part-time study is also available.

Kent State University. Kent State University is a public liberal arts university located in Northeast Ohio. Comprised of eight different campuses, Kent State is able to provide a small, liberal arts education through a large university system.

These translation degree programs focus on translation research skills, specialized translation, computer-assisted terminology and translation, software localization and project management for the language industry, but are also designed to provide a comprehensive foundation for skill development in humanistic translation and translation studies. Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey was founded in in Monterey, California as a multilingual, globally focused graduate school.

Formerly known as the Monterey Institute of International Studies, it has been affiliated with Middlebury College since With enrollment around students all in graduate programs , the Middlebury Institute boasts a close-knit, globally focused community. The Middlebury Institute offers a M.

Finally, the business track will cover key business management areas, such as principles of project management, multilingual marketing, managerial economics, product development, and international business strategy in courses offered by the School of International Policy and Management. Recent technological innovations blur the distinction between the two.

More than 60 percent of students choose to pursue an MATI degree. In simultaneous interpretation, interpreters sit in soundproof booths one booth for each language , where they listen to the speech from the meeting room through headsets. As the speaker talks, each interpreter interprets at the same time into his or her native or A language. In this manner, the same speech can be interpreted into several languages at once with very little time lag.

In each booth, interpreters work as a team, sharing the workload at regular intervals. In consecutive interpretation, the interpreter usually sits with conference delegates while a speech is being made, listens to the speech, and takes notes. When the speaker pauses or finishes, the interpreter renders the speech in the first person in the target language. Speech and interpretation generally occur in segments no longer than minutes. Most graduates of the MACI program work as freelance interpreters, although some do work with larger organizations like the United Nations and the U.

State Department. SUNY Binghamton. The PhD in Translation Studies is the first of its kind in the United States and prepares students both for the professoriate and for scholarly research-including research-informed translation and offers individualized interdisciplinary tracks to accommodate a variety of backgrounds.

Courses focus on the history and traditions of Translation Studies, comparative literature, cultural and postcolonial studies, national literatures and major figures, philosophy, and pedagogy, as well as individualized programs of study. Staff then collected awards data dating back to , or as far back as available, through online databases or hardcopy files sent by awarding organizations. Once data collection was complete, staff matched names of award-winners with faculty lists compiled by Mathematica Policy Research.

This process included matching all faculty in programs in a given taxonomic field against the entire database of award winners according to broad field e.

Thus, the faculty members assigned to the Comparative Literature field were matched by name and university affiliation against all of the award-winners collected in the Arts and Humanities disciplines, in order to catch possible interdisciplinary awards.

In order to ensure that awards were matched to the correct faculty member, staff manually reviewed faculty lists, eliminating records where people may have matched by first and last name, but not according to middle name or institution. Finally, staff counted the number of awards per faculty member in each of the programs. This allocation formula ensures that each program benefits from the achievements of its faculty member, but it gives more weight to those programs with which the faculty member is most directly involved.

Types of awards generally not included are public service, travel or conference grants, and graduate student or post-doctoral awards. Inevitably, there are limits to the awards data. In addition, although staff generally collected data back to , the dates of the awards data vary: some awards have come into existence more recently, while others only had records on more recent awardees.

The construction of taxonomy inevitably confronts limitations and requires execution of somewhat arbitrary decisions. The taxonomy builds upon the previous studies, in order to represent the continuity of doctoral research and training and to provide a basis for potential users of the proposed analysis to identify information important to them. Those users include scholars, students, academic administrators as well as industrial and governmental employers.

Furthermore, taxonomy must correspond as much as possible to the actual programmatic organization of doctoral studies. In addition, however, taxonomy must capture the development of new and diversifying activity.

The Committee struggled with the frequent disparity among institutional nomenclatures, representing essentially the same research and training activities, as well as by the rise of interdisciplinary work. The Committee did its best to construct a taxonomy that reflected the way most graduate programs are organized in most research universities but realizes that there may be areas where the fit may not be perfect. We thought it would be useful to name sub-fields for fields in the taxonomy in order to provide a guide for program placement.

The definition of a program is a unit that satisfies at least three out of the following four criteria: 1 enrolls students, 2 has a designated faculty, 3 develops a curriculum for doctoral study, and 4 recommends students for the award of a doctoral degree. Do not split or combine existing doctoral programs.

To be listed, a program must have produced 5 Ph. Emerging Fields. Some fields are listed in this category because they are sometimes offered through stand-alone programs or are sometimes programs that are included as part of another larger field. Institutions are requested to report programs in emerging fields regardless of whether or not they are included in another program.

If it is a separate program, respondents will be asked to indicate whether it is a stand-alone program or not. Other fields are listed because they have been experiencing significant growth, although they do not yet meet the size criterion for inclusion in the study. Institutions will also be asked to list the number of doctoral faculty members associated with the program and the number of students enrolled in it.

Emerging fields will not be included in the ratings process. Note: Field names are provided so that the study may group doctoral programs that are comparable to one another.

Doctoral programs should be assigned to fields. A field may contain more than one program within the same institution. If a program has research strength outside its field e.

The names of sub-fields are provided for two purposes: 1 To assist institutions in placing their programs in the fields in the taxonomy, and 2 To indicate areas of research of program faculty so that students may have an indicator of what research specialties exist in each program.

Data will not be collected or reported by sub-field except as an indicator of the research specialties of program faculty. We recognize that scholarship and research in interdisciplinary fields have grown significantly since the last study. Some of this work is multidisciplinary; some is cross disciplinary or interdisciplinary.

We could not devise a single standard for all possible combinations. Where possible, we have attempted to include acknowledged interdisciplinary fields such as Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and American Studies. In other instances, we listed areas as emerging fields. Our goal remains to identify and evaluate inter-, multi-, and cross-disciplinary fields.

Once they become established scholarly areas and meet the threshold for inclusion in the study established by this and future committees, they will be added to the list. Department of Education. Based on these data, the Committee reviewed the fields included in the Study to determine whether new fields had grown enough to merit inclusion and whether the criteria themselves were sensible. In earlier studies, the criteria for inclusion had been that a field must have produced at least Ph.

After reviewing these criteria, the Committee agreed that the field inclusion criterion should be kept, although a few fields in the humanities should continue to be included even though they no longer met the threshold requirement.

Recommendation 3. The Committee also reviewed the threshold level for inclusion of an individual program and, given the growth in the average size of programs, generally felt that a modification was warranted. A minimal amount of activity is required to evaluate a program. This parameter is modified from the previous study—3 degrees in 3 years—to account for variations in small fields. The university threshold is retained.

Two fields in the humanities, Classics and German language and literature, had been included in earlier studies but have since fallen below the threshold size for inclusion in terms of Ph. Adequate numbers of faculty remain, however, to assess the scholarly quality of programs. In the interests of continuity with earlier studies and the historical importance of these fields, the Committee felt that they should still be included. Continuity is a particularly important consideration.

In the biological sciences, where the Committee redefined fields, the fields themselves had changed in a way that could not be ignored.