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PhD PRODUCTIVITY

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UNDERGRADUATE ORIGINS OF PH.D.s

PERCENTAGE RANKING OF PH.D.S, BY ACADEMIC FIELD, CONFERRED UPON GRADUATES OF LISTED INSTITUTIonS

Rank
All Disciplines
Biological Sciences History Humanities
1 Calif. Inst. of Tech. Calif. Inst. of Tech. Yale St. John's College
2 Harvey Mudd Reed Reed Reed
3 Swarthmore Swarthmore Pomona Yale
4 Reed Harvey Mudd Swarthmore Amherst
5 MIT Univ. of Chicago Oberlin Swarthmore
6 Carleton MIT Carleton Bryn Mawr
7 Oberlin Kalamazoo Wesleyan Carleton
8 Bryn Mawr Earlham Bryn Mawr Williams
9 Univ. of Chicago Grinnell Haverford Oberlin
10 Grinnell Princeton Univ. of Chicago Pomona

 

Rank Mathematics & Statistics Political Science Social Sciences Chemistry
1 Calif. Inst. of Tech. Swarthmore Swarthmore Harvey Mudd
2 Harvey Mudd Haverford Bryn Mawr Calif. Inst. of Tech.
3 Reed Reed Reed Wabash
4 MIT Princeton Grinnell Reed
5 Univ. of Chicago Pomona Univ. of Chicago Carleton
6 Harvard Oberlin Oberlin Grinnell
7 Pomona Harvard Harvard Wooster
8 Princeton Univ. of Chicago Wesleyan NM Institute Mining & Tech.
9 Rice Wesleyan Carleton Franklin & Marshall
10 St. John's College Bryn Mawr Pomona Bowdoin

 

Rank Physics Physical Sciences Anthropology Foreign Languages
1 Calif. Inst. of Tech. Calif. Inst. of Tech. Bryn Mawr Grinnell
2 Harvey Mudd Harvey Mudd Beloit Bryn Mawr
3 MIT MIT Grinnell Kalamazoo
4 Reed Reed College of the Atlantic Amherst
5 Univ. of Chicago NM Institute Mining & Tech. Reed Reed
6 Rice Carleton Pomona Carleton
7 Princeton Wabash Univ. of Chicago St. John's College
8 NM Institute Mining & Tech. Rice Haverford Bennington
9 Carleton Univ. of Chicago Goddard Yale
10 Case Western Reserve Grinnell Harvard Wabash

 

Rank Linguistics English & Literature Area & Ethnic Studies

Astronomy

1 St. John's College Amherst Wells Calif. Inst. of Tech.
2 SF Conservatory of Music St. John's College Wesleyan Harvey Mudd
3 California State Univ. System Yale Bryn Mawr NM Institute Mining & Tech.
4 Swarthmore Swarthmore Hampshire MIT
5 Reed Bennington Yale Rice
6 Wilson Bryn Mawr Amherst Carleton
7 Grinnell Reed Marlboro Princeton
8 Goddard Simon's Rock of Bard Reed Haverford
9 Pomona Williams Carleton Reed
10 Univ. of Hawaii at Hilo Carleton Oberlin Harvard


Source: Weighted Baccalaureate Origins Study, Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, October 2006. This shows baccalaureate origins of people granted Ph.D.s from 1995 to 2004. The listing shows the top 10 institutions in the nation ranked by percentage of graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. in selected disciplines.