<p>Below is a list of colleges with the highest PhD production rates in psychology, adjusted for program size. Column 2 shows the number of alumni psychology PhDs earned from 2007-11. Column 3 shows the number of BAs awarded in psychology from 2002-06. Column 4 is the number in column 2 divided by the number in column 3. I’ve eliminated colleges with fewer than 10 PhDs for the period. (Source: NSF/webcaspar.nsf.com)</p>
<p>7 of the top 10 are small liberal arts colleges. It may be the case that a higher level of student-faculty engagement, with instruction by professors not graduate students, trumps high research spending or more extensive course offerings. However, self-selection factors may also affect the results. In addition, we don’t know where students are getting their degrees. So this should not be construed as a program quality ranking.</p>
<p>College … Alumni PhDs in Psych 2007-11 … Psych Grads 2002-06 … PhD Production Rate
Hampshire College 10 31 32.3%
Grinnell College 23 73 31.5%
Cornell University, All Campuses 154 491 31.4%
Oberlin College 31 126 24.6%
Swarthmore College 23 107 21.5%
Franklin and Marshall College 23 120 19.2%
Haverford College 19 110 17.3%
Pomona College 24 141 17.0%
Carnegie Mellon University 48 287 16.7%
Brown University 79 476 16.6%
Vassar College 48 290 16.6%
Macalester College 30 183 16.4%
Colby College 20 125 16.0%
Williams College 37 240 15.4%
Wellesley College 46 311 14.8%
Colgate University 29 197 14.7%
Furman University 24 172 14.0%
Connecticut College 27 197 13.7%
Kenyon College 24 176 13.6%
Knox College 15 110 13.6%
Amherst College 22 165 13.3%
Reed College 18 136 13.2%
Hamilton College 19 149 12.8%
Washington and Lee University 12 95 12.6%
University of Pennsylvania 106 841 12.6%
Southwestern University 17 137 12.4%
Princeton University 44 358 12.3%
Carleton College 20 164 12.2%
Yale University 81 665 12.2%
Lawrence University 13 110 11.8%
Tufts University 68 579 11.7%
Barnard College 39 336 11.6%
Rhodes College 14 122 11.5%
Harvard University 82 732 11.2%
Stanford University 58 527 11.0%
Claremont McKenna College 13 120 10.8%
Bowdoin College 12 112 10.7%
Davidson College 22 208 10.6%
Luther College 17 164 10.4%
Wesleyan University 40 387 10.3%
Bucknell University 25 247 10.1%</p>