<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: Political Science & Public Administration </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 Swarthmore College 23
2 Harvard University 20
3 Haverford College 19
4 Princeton University 18
5 Pomona College 17
6 Oberlin College 17
7 Williams College 17
8 Wesleyan University 16
9 University of Chicago 13
10 Amherst College 13
11 Reed College 13
12 Bryn Mawr College 13
13 Yale University 12
14 Smith College 12
15 Stanford University 12
16 Georgetown University 11
17 Carleton College 11
18 Wellesley College 10
19 Whitman College 10
20 University of the South 10
21 College of Wooster 10
22 Middlebury College 10
23 Franklin and Marshall College 10
24 Claremont McKenna College 10
25 Brown University 10
26 Dartmouth College 9
27 Kenyon College 9
28 Colby College 8
29 Occidental College 8
30 Bowdoin College 8
31 Brandeis University 8
32 Colorado College 8
33 Earlham College 8
34 Colgate University 8
35 United States Air Force Academy 7
36 Duke University 7
37 Lawrence University 7
38 Knox College 7
39 Harvey Mudd College 7
40 Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL) 7
41 Barnard College 7
42 Vassar College 7
43 Davidson College 6
44 United States Military Academy 6
45 Northwestern Univ 6
46 Macalester College 6
47 Columbia University in the City of New York 6
48 Drew University 6
49 University of California-Berkeley 6
50 Grinnell College 6
51 Cornell University, All Campuses 6
52 California Institute of Technology 6</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>