PhD production - History

<p>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: History </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 Yale University 34
2 Wesleyan University 26
3 Oberlin College 26
4 Reed College 24
5 Harvard University 24
6 Pomona College 24
7 Carleton College 24
8 Haverford College 23
9 Swarthmore College 23
10 Amherst College 22
11 Williams College 22
12 Princeton University 21
13 Bryn Mawr College 19
14 University of Chicago 18
15 Brown University 17
16 Grinnell College 17
17 Macalester College 16
18 Hampshire College 16
19 Columbia University in the City of New York 15
20 Mount Holyoke College 15
21 Wellesley College 15
22 Smith College 14
23 College of Wooster 11
24 Barnard College 11
25 Lawrence University 11
26 Vassar College 11
27 Stanford University 11
28 Trinity College (Hartford, CT) 10
29 Earlham College 10
30 University of the South 9
31 Brandeis University 9
32 Dartmouth College 9
33 Bowdoin College 9
34 University of California-Berkeley 9
35 Virginia Military Institute 9
36 Georgetown University 9
37 Davidson College 9
38 Colorado College 9
39 Kenyon College 9
40 Washington and Lee University 9
41 Kalamazoo College 9
42 College of William and Mary 9
43 St John's College (Annapolis, MD) 8
44 Lewis and Clark College 8
45 United States Military Academy 8
46 Trinity University 8
47 Bates College 8
48 Rice University 8
49 Hamilton College 8
50 Tufts University 8</p>

<p>Note 1: Some have complained that these lists don't provide useful data. Proposed Solution: ignore the lists. </p>

<p>Note 2: Some have complained that these lists don't include Law, MBA, MD, or Masters degrees. Proposed Solution: find the data and make your own list. </p>

<p>Note 3: Some have complained that I should go school by school and selectively remove engineering from one school or music from another, but leave them for still others. Proposed Solution: Be my guest.</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>