Most Popular Schools for Philosophy Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on ideas and their logical structure, including arguments and investigations about abstract and real phenomena. Includes instruction in logic, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, symbolism, and history of philosophy, and applications to the theoretical foundations and methods of other disciplines.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	University of California-Los Angeles	105	1%	$34,620
2	University of California-Berkeley	95	1%	$38,066
3	Georgia State University	66	1%	$26,014
4	San Francisco State University	66	1%	$27,480
5	University of California-Santa Barbara	60	1%	$36,659
6	University of Washington-Seattle Campus	59	0%	$27,638
7	The University of Texas at Austin	57	0%	$26,506
8	Boston College	51	1%	$73,092
9	University of California-Santa Cruz	51	1%	$36,217
10	Columbia University in the City of New York	46	0%	$76,856
11	University of Florida	45	0%	$21,211
12	University of Chicago	45	1%	$78,555
13	Arizona State University-Tempe	44	0%	$28,048
14	New York University	43	0%	$73,566
15	Catholic University of America	43	3%	$64,560
16	Fordham University	42	1%	$74,265
17	Texas State University	42	0%	$23,130
18	Boston University	41	0%	$72,618
19	Florida International University	39	0%	$23,506
20	University of Wisconsin-Madison	39	0%	$26,025
21	Princeton University	38	2%	$70,900
22	University of California-Riverside	37	1%	$35,242
23	Biola University	37	3%	$56,956
24	University of Arizona	37	0%	$29,217
25	Florida State University	36	0%	$22,168
26	University of St Thomas	35	1%	$56,664
27	University of California-Irvine	34	0%	$34,261
28	University of Maryland-College Park	34	0%	$27,146
29	Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary-Overbrook	33	35%	$39,170
30	University of Colorado Boulder	33	0%	$31,044
31	The New School	32	1%	$71,361
32	University of New Mexico-Main Campus	32	1%	$22,639
33	Brigham Young University-Provo	32	0%	$18,776
34	Rutgers University-New Brunswick	32	0%	$32,443
35	California State University-Los Angeles	31	0%	$26,139
36	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	31	0%	$30,298
37	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	31	0%	$36,652
38	University of California-Davis	30	0%	$35,177
39	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	30	1%	$28,302
40	Emory University	30	1%	$69,502
41	Harvard University	29	0%	$71,650
42	University of Oregon	29	0%	$27,366
43	California State University-Long Beach	29	0%	$24,738
44	Franciscan University of Steubenville	28	4%	$39,200
45	Temple University	28	0%	$33,004
46	Texas A & M University-College Station	28	0%	$29,506
47	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College	28	0%	$30,360
48	Stanford University	27	1%	$71,587
49	University of South Florida-Main Campus	27	0%	$23,320
50	American Public University System	27	0%	$6,880
51	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	27	1%	$24,035
52	Loyola University Chicago	27	1%	$61,328
53	Holy Apostles College and Seminary	27	26%	$22,220
54	University of Houston	26	0%	$23,225
55	Arizona State University-Skysong	26	0%	$27,521
56	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	25	0%	$23,694
57	San Jose State University	25	0%	$29,193
58	California State University-Sacramento	25	0%	$26,454
59	Yale University	24	1%	$73,900
60	Northern Illinois University	24	0%	$29,117
61	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	24	0%	$27,898
62	Utah Valley University	24	0%	$6,450
63	Brown University	24	1%	$73,802
64	Pepperdine University	24	1%	$73,002
65	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	23	0%	$24,486
66	Ohio State University-Main Campus	23	0%	$27,367
67	Stony Brook University	23	0%	$26,091
68	Portland State University	22	0%	$26,085
69	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	22	0%	$26,834
70	Tulane University of Louisiana	22	1%	$72,296
71	CUNY Brooklyn College	22	1%	$8,604
72	California State University-Northridge	22	0%	$22,969
73	University of Virginia-Main Campus	22	0%	$33,493
74	CUNY Hunter College	21	0%	$22,379
75	Texas Tech University	21	0%	$24,472
76	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	21	0%	$31,510
77	California State University-Fresno	21	0%	$21,418
78	Sierra College	21	1%	$13,864
79	Cornell University	21	0%	$73,904
80	George Washington University	21	0%	$71,930
81	University of Pennsylvania	20	0%	$74,408
82	DePaul University	20	0%	$57,678
83	Georgetown University	20	0%	$73,840
84	Chapman University	20	1%	$73,182
85	California State University-Fullerton	20	0%	$27,738
86	CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice	20	1%	$35,261
87	Tufts University	19	1%	$73,500
88	University of Kentucky	19	0%	$30,101
89	San Diego State University	19	0%	$29,318
90	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	19	0%	$23,811
91	Western Michigan University	19	0%	$26,009
92	University of Georgia	18	0%	$26,688
93	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona	18	0%	$28,891
94	Southern Methodist University	18	0%	$74,737
95	University of Notre Dame	18	1%	$71,801
96	George Mason University	18	0%	$30,284
97	Vanderbilt University	18	1%	$70,146
98	University of Central Florida	18	0%	$22,548
99	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus	18	0%	$29,097
100	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	18	0%	$23,977

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Philosophy program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.