<p>Here is a ranking using the method suggested by dfb in post #53.</p>
<p>I first divided science/engineering PhDs by the number of science/engineering bachelors grads in 2002. Then I multiplied by 1600/SAT midpoint.</p>
<p>The data for Trinity does not look right. It is a serious outlier.</p>
<p>Caltech and MIT still look good.</p>
<p>I am still not satisfied with this ranking but will post it for discussion. I think it would be an improvement if I could restrict the PhD count to science only and the bachelors graduates to science only (or to some other field that universities and LACs have in common). That would create an apples-apples comparison between LACs and universities. Better yet would be to have the SATs for just those students but that infor is not available.</p>
<p>Still, it is a better research design than the NSF’s.</p>
<p>Trinity University 3.79
University of Massachusetts at Amherst 2.24
SUNY at Buffalo 1.64
California Institute of Technology 1.55
University of Arizona 1.54
Harvey Mudd College 1.40
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 1.23
Swarthmore College 1.20
Reed College 1.12
Carleton College 1.11
Grinnell College 1.01
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 0.95
Haverford College 0.95
Oberlin College 0.91
Harvard University 0.88
Bryn Mawr College 0.87
Princeton University 0.86
Rice University 0.82
Pomona College 0.81
University of Chicago 0.81
Williams College 0.78
Earlham College 0.76
Yale University 0.75
Wesleyan University 0.71
Brown University 0.69
Amherst College 0.69
Stanford University 0.68
Kalamazoo College 0.67
Macalester College 0.66
Wellesley College 0.65
Franklin and Marshall College 0.64
Duke University 0.64
North Carolina State University at Raleigh 0.61
Cornell University, all campuses 0.61
Beloit College 0.59
Occidental College 0.59
Lawrence University 0.58
Vassar College 0.57
Hendrix College 0.57
Dartmouth College 0.55
Case Western Reserve University 0.53
College of William and Mary 0.53
Bowdoin College 0.52
Brandeis University 0.52
University of Rochester 0.51
Bates College 0.50
University of California-Berkeley 0.47
Johns Hopkins University 0.46
Carnegie Mellon University 0.45
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 0.39
Whitman College 0.39
Columbia University in the City of New York 0.38
University of Virginia, main campus 0.37
University of Pennsylvania 0.37
University of California-Santa Cruz 0.37
Northwestern University 0.36
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 0.36
University of Notre Dame 0.33
University of California-San Diego 0.32
University of California-Davis 0.30
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 0.29
University of Wisconsin-Madison 0.28
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 0.28
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 0.26
University of California-Los Angeles 0.25
University of Colorado at Boulder 0.24
Georgia Institute of Technology, main campus 0.23
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 0.23
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey New Brunswick 0.23
Brigham Young University, main campus 0.23
Boston University 0.23
Purdue University, main campus 0.23
Pennsylvania State University, main campus 0.22
University of Texas at Austin 0.22
University of California-Irvine 0.21
University of California-Santa Barbara 0.21
University of Maryland at College Park 0.20
University of Florida 0.19
Michigan State University 0.19
Iowa State University 0.18
University of Washington-Seattle 0.18
Texas A&M University, main campus 0.18
Indiana University at Bloomington 0.17
Ohio State University, main campus 0.17
St John’s College (Annapolis, MD) 0.14</p>