Universities Where UCR Professors Got Their PhDs

One of the most important things to know about pursuing a career in academia is that in most cases it matters where you get your PhD. Virtually every department of every university tends to higher graduates from the more elite, famous, and highly ranked universities (although this varies from department to department, as you can see even from this list). Another thing to keep in mind is that individual programs at universities are ranked. So for instance, a university might be highly ranked overall but might not have a highly ranked Art History program.

The following is a list of some departments at UCR. Underneath the name of each department is a list of the universities where the professors got their PhD. This will give you a more concrete idea of what types of universities you should look into if becoming a professor at a research university is your goal.

Note: Only current professors listed in each department's website are listed.

Anthropology

Arizona State University
Boston University
New School for Social Research
Oxford (United Kingdom)
Stanford
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
UC Irvine
UC Irvine
UC Riverside
UC Riverside
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Yale

Art History Department

Columbia
Columbia
Princeton
Princeton
Stanford
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
UCLA
University of Bonn (Germany)
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
University of Trier (Germany)
Yale

English Department

Brown University
Columbia
Columbia
Duke University
Duke University
Indiana University
John Hopkins Univesity
New York University
Pennsylvania State University
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UCLA
UCLA
UCLA
UC Santa Barbara
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
University of Illinois
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
University of Washington

History Department

Bryn Mawr College
Cornell
Columbia
Harvard
Harvard
Johns Hopkins University
New York University
Oklahoma State University
Princeton
UCLA
UCLA
UCLA
UCLA
UCLA
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
University of London (United Kingdom)
University of London (United Kingdom)
University of Michigan
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Washington University
Yale
Yale

Mathematics Department

Bombay University (India)
Louisiana State University
Oxford (United Kingdom)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pennsylvania State University
Princeton
Purdue
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Italy)
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Chicago
University of Maryland
University of Minnesota
University of Notre Dame
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (France)
University of Texas at Austin
University of Washington
Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany)
Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Philosophy Department

Boston University
City University of New York
Columbia
Cornell
Cornell
Georgetown
Harvard
Harvard
Harvard
Indiana University
Princeton
Princeton
Princeton
Stanford
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCLA
University of Chicago
University of Chicago

Religious Studies Department

Birmingham University
Duke University
Harvard
Princeton
Stanford
Temple University
University of Arizona
University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Michigan

Sociology Department

Arizona State University
Cornell
Duke University
Harvard
Harvard
Indiana University
Stanford
Stanford
UC Irvine
UC Irvine
UC Irvine
UCLA
UCLA
University of Hawai'i
University of Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin
Yale