*Updated 2025
Strongly Recommended departments have indications that graduate students will be encouraged and supported to pursue work in this area, will find a supportive community of scholars and mentors, and will be able to write a state of the art dissertation in continental philosophy.
Recommended departments have indications that graduate students will be encouraged and supported to pursue work in continental philosophy.
For information about the basis of these recommendations, please go to our FAQ and Methodology pages. The recommendations below are not listed alphabetically but roughly in the order of support they received. Please keep in mind that these lists have been produced by surveying experts in this sub-field of philosophy. The Pluralist Guide strongly advises students to use these lists as a prima facie guideline for further research. Faculty retire and change departments, and the particular area that one philosopher is working within may not connect with a given student’s interests. We encourage you to use these lists alongside the APA Grad Guide on the APA website as well as your own research into departments. Department chairs will often provide names of current students who can be consulted for more information, and though the students that chairs direct you toward may be a select set, putting all of these sources of information alongside each other can significantly inform your decision about where to apply.
Boston College
Boston University
Brock University
Concordia University
CUNY Graduate Center
DePaul University
Duquesne University
Emory University
Fordham University
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Loyola University Chicago
McGill University
Memorial University of Newfoundland
New School for Social Research
Northwestern University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University
Puerto Rico University
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Stony Brook University (SUNY)
Texas A&M University
Toronto Metropolitan University
Université de Montréal / University of Montreal
University of Alberta
University of Chicago
University of Guelph
University of Memphis
University of New Mexico
University of Oregon
University of Ottowa
University of Pennsylvania
University of Victoria
Villanova University
Western University
Arizona State University
California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Northridge
Catholic University of America
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dalhousie University
Duke University
Georgetown University
Georgia State University
Harvard University
Marquette University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
McMaster University
Miami University of Ohio
Michigan State University
Notre Dame University
Rice University
Rutgers University
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
Seattle University
SUNY Binghamton
SUNY Buffalo
Temple University
University of Arizona
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Riverside
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Cincinnati
University of Connecticut
University of Dallas
University of Georgia
University of Houston
University of Illinois Chicago
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Kentucky
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
University of Ottawa
University of Pittsburgh
University of South Florida
University of Southern California
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
University of Washington, Seattle
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Washington State University, Pullman
Washington University in St. Louis
Wayne State University
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Western Michigan University
Yale University
York University
American University
Dalhousie University
Loyola Marymount University of Los Angeles
Miami University of Ohio
New School for Social Research
University of New Mexico
University of Memphis
University Of Puerto Rico
University of Ottowa