<p>Balderdash.
Pound for pound, more Ph.Ds in science get their baccalaureates from LACs than from almost any research university.</p>
<p>That is an interesting fact johnwesley. Thank you.</p>
<p>For me, I thought it would be always better to go to an LAC for Undergrad, to get a "better" undergrad experience/broaden my horizons, and then go to a large research university for my graduate work.</p>
<p>for compiling the following list. Out of 52 institutions, nearly half (24) are LACs. And, if you subtracted engineering (a Swarthmore specialty), the LACs as a whole would probably rank even higher.</p>
<p>"PhD production - Total Math, Science, Engineering
Here are the top-50 undergrad schools in per capita PhD and Doctoral production from 1994-2003. Rank, followed by name, followed by number of PhDs per 1000 undergrads. This covers all PhDs and doctoral degrees included in the NSF data base.</p>
<p>"Per Capita Undergrad Production of PhDs and Doctoral Degrees</p>
<p>"Academic field: Total Math, Science, Engineering (does not include Psych)</p>
<p>"PhDs and Doctoral Degrees: 1994 to 2003 from NSF database</p>
<p>"Enrollment from 2004 USNews</p>
<p>"Formula: PhDs divided by undergrad enrollment times 1000</p>
<p>1 California Institute of Technology 787
2 Harvey Mudd College 444
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 444
4 Swarthmore College 203
5 Reed College 201
6 Rice University 190
7 Carleton College 175
8 Harvard University 174
9 Princeton University 174
10 Haverford College 144
11 Cornell University, All Campuses 138
12 University of Chicago 134
13 Stanford University 130
14 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 126
15 Yale University 126
16 Case Western Reserve University 123
17 Grinnell College 122
18 Oberlin College 116
19 Williams College 114
20 University of Rochester 111
21 Kalamazoo College 110
22 Brown University 107
23 Cooper Union 106
24 Pomona College 104
25 Carnegie Mellon University 104
26 Amherst College 104
27 University of California-Berkeley 103
28 Duke University 102
29 Bryn Mawr College 100
30 Bowdoin College 100
31 Johns Hopkins University 97
32 St Olaf College 91
33 Earlham College 90
34 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 88
35 Lawrence University 86
36 Wabash College 86
37 Dartmouth College 85
38 Bates College 84
39 Mount Holyoke College 82
40 Wellesley College 82
41 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 80
42 Allegheny College 80
43 Franklin and Marshall College 79
44 College of William and Mary 79
45 Occidental College 78
46 College of Wooster 74
47 Hendrix College 74
48 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 74
49 University of Pennsylvania 74
50 SUNY College of Environmental Sci & Forestry 72
51 Wesleyan University 72
52 Whitman College 72"</p>
<p>Originally posted on the Swarthmore CC board</p>
<p>Some schools if you apply ED and don't get in then they push to RD so you sord of have two goes at it. Binding is also catchy, you have to be committed. If not then you may end up stuck going to a school you don't want to.</p>