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As an example, I took the top 20 EE departments on the US News list and tallied where their faculty got their PhDs. In almost all cases, the majority (and in some cases 70%+) of their PhDs were from the top 4 programs: MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, and Caltech.
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<p>Caltech is a top 4 EE PhD program? When did that happen? According to both USNews and the NRC, the top 4 are MIT, Stanford, Illinois, and Berkeley. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v42/n4/gradrank.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v42/n4/gradrank.html</a>
<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/premium/specialties/engsp06.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/eng/premium/specialties/engsp06.php</a></p>