And the Number One U.S. Doctoral Program in Art History Is…

Johns Hopkins University.
Or at least so says a report in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which has published the results of a new “Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index” that based its rankings on “faculty members’ scholarly output [number of publications, awards, honors, and grants received] at nearly 7,300 doctoral programs around the country,” according to the Art History Newsletter.
In other words, it’s a publish-or-perish world; the quantity of articles counts; teaching doesn’t.
To access the full article, A New Standard for Measuring Doctoral Programs, you need to be a Chronicle subscriber. But the Art History Newsletter has published the complete list.
Here it is:
1. Johns Hopkins
2. New York University
3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. Yale University
5. University of California, Berkeley
6. University of Chicago
7. UCLA
8. University of Maryland at College Park
9. CUNY Graduate Center
9. Stanford University
Reasonable professors may disagree (and undoubtedly will).