Considering
St. Thomas Aquinas came in 9th in
this poll of "Who are the most important philosophers of all time?", I was curious which of the universities in the
Philosophical Gourmet Report's 2009 "ranking of the top facilities in the English-speaking world" is most Thomist. Here is how they performed, based on the number of Google results for "Aquinas" (cf.
this, too) at each university's entire website:
Sorted by Google Hits (1st # shown)
- University of Toronto 24400 6777.8
- Yale University 6790 1741.0
- University of Pennsylvania 5150 1775.9
- University of Notre Dame 3650 1013.9
- University of Colorado, Boulder 3590 1196.7
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2810 685.4
- Cambridge University 2780 817.6
- University of Chicago 2000 606.1
- Stanford University 1920 505.3
- University of Texas, Austin 1710 502.9
- Oxford University 1040 221.3
- City University of New York Graduate Center 981 272.5
- Princeton University 942 219.1
- Harvard University 860 215.0
- Cornell University 801 228.9
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick 782 170.0
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 734 183.5
- University of Wisconsin, Madison 677 211.6
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst 629 209.7
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 589 155.0
- Columbia University 583 157.6
- University of California, Los Angeles 493 129.7
- Duke University 493 164.3
- New York University 440 89.8
- University of Pittsburgh 423 100.7
- University of Western Ontario 385 142.6
- Indiana University, Bloomington 383 119.7
- University of Maryland, College Park 380 131.0
- London School of Economics 380 135.7
- University of California, Berkeley 339 89.2
- University of California, Riverside 326 112.4
- Australian National University 296 80.0
- University of Southern California 295 84.3
- University of California, San Diego 246 74.5
- University College London 229 71.6
- University of Miami 190 67.9
- King's College, London 183 59.0
- Syracuse University 181 64.6
- University of Arizona 179 48.4
- Washington University, St. Louis 173 59.7
- Ohio State University 170 56.7
- Brown University 155 44.3
- University of Warwick 148 54.8
- University of California, Irvine 143 44.7
- University of Nottingham 121 44.8
- University of Sheffield 66 22.8
- University of Sydney 52 17.3
- Birkbeck College, University of London 33 11.0
- University of Reading 5 1.9
Sorted by Ratio (2nd # shown) of Hits to Mean Ranking
- University of Toronto 24400 6777.8
- University of Pennsylvania 5150 1775.9
- Yale University 6790 1741.0
- University of Colorado, Boulder 3590 1196.7
- University of Notre Dame 3650 1013.9
- Cambridge University 2780 817.6
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2810 685.4
- University of Chicago 2000 606.1
- Stanford University 1920 505.3
- University of Texas, Austin 1710 502.9
- City University of New York Graduate Center 981 272.5
- Cornell University 801 228.9
- Oxford University 1040 221.3
- Princeton University 942 219.1
- Harvard University 860 215.0
- University of Wisconsin, Madison 677 211.6
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst 629 209.7
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 734 183.5
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick 782 170.0
- Duke University 493 164.3
- Columbia University 583 157.6
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 589 155.0
- University of Western Ontario 385 142.6
- London School of Economics 380 135.7
- University of Maryland, College Park 380 131.0
- University of California, Los Angeles 493 129.7
- Indiana University, Bloomington 383 119.7
- University of California, Riverside 326 112.4
- University of Pittsburgh 423 100.7
- New York University 440 89.8
- University of California, Berkeley 339 89.2
- University of Southern California 295 84.3
- Australian National University 296 80.0
- University of California, San Diego 246 74.5
- University College London 229 71.6
- University of Miami 190 67.9
- Syracuse University 181 64.6
- Washington University, St. Louis 173 59.7
- King's College, London 183 59.0
- Ohio State University 170 56.7
- University of Warwick 148 54.8
- University of Arizona 179 48.4
- University of Nottingham 121 44.8
- University of California, Irvine 143 44.7
- Brown University 155 44.3
- University of Sheffield 66 22.8
- University of Sydney 52 17.3
- Birkbeck College, University of London 33 11.0
- University of Reading 5 1.9
The second sorted list gives one a good idea what are the best secular Thomist universities.
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