The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures ranked tenth in the nation.

The recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education (1/12/07) reports on a ranking of 7,294 individual doctoral programs in 104 disciplines at 354 institutions. The rankings were based on a "Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index," developed by Academic Analytics, a company owned partially by the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

The rankings were based on the following statistics: number of faculty, percentage of faculty with a book publication, books per faculty, percentage of faculty with a journal publication, journal publications per faculty, percentage of faculty with journal publication cited by another work, and citations per faculty.

The list is available here