<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: Sociology </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 18
2 Haverford College 15
3 Oberlin College 11
4 Bryn Mawr College 10
5 Wesleyan University 8
6 Carleton College 8
7 Brown University 8
8 Whitman College 8
9 Harvard University 7
10 Pomona College 7
11 Earlham College 7
12 Clark University 6
13 Franklin and Marshall College 6
14 Wellesley College 6
15 Hampshire College 6
16 University of Chicago 6
17 Grinnell College 6
18 Brandeis University 6
19 Smith College 6
20 Goshen College 5
21 Oakland University 5
22 Millsaps College 5
23 Reed College 5
24 Macalester College 5
25 Stanford University 5
26 Yale University 5
27 Barnard College 5
28 Rice University 5
29 Bennington College 5
30 Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL) 5
31 Bowdoin College 4
32 University of California-Berkeley 4
33 Goucher College 4
34 Beloit College 4
35 Denison University 4
36 Princeton University 4
37 Eckerd College 4
38 Colorado College 4
39 Hamline University 4
40 University of California-Santa Cruz 4
41 Columbia University in the City of New York 4
42 Bates College 3
43 Bard College 3
44 DePauw University 3
45 College of William and Mary 3
46 Rhodes College 3
47 Pitzer College 3
48 Augsburg College 3
49 Kalamazoo College 3
50 Austin College 3
51 Amherst College 3
52 Rollins College 3
53 Vassar College 3
54 Colgate University 3
55 Trinity College (Hartford, CT) 3
56 Colby College 3
57 Trinity University 3
58 Mount Holyoke College 3
59 Mills College 3
60 Randolph-Macon Woman's College 3
61 Wittenberg University 3</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>