A while back I did “a small study”:http://tar.weatherson.org/archives/000576.html on placement rates of top PhD departments. At the time I left out NYU because they didn’t have a record. Now “they do have a record”:http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/placement/index.html, and it is pretty good – 100% of graduates in good jobs, around half of them in jobs that are clearly great jobs. It’s a very small sample, but something for PhD candidates to consider when deciding between universities. (Thanks to Ned Block for the link.)