<p>Any major research university will have those classes and some but not all elite LACs will as well. There is probably no method that will measure differences in learning and graduate placement that will satisfy everybody but in my thread that I linked to above I found the majority of Harvard physics phds came from just seven undergrad institutions: Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Caltech, and Chicago so that’s something to consider. It’s definitely possible to get into an elite physics graduate program from other schools it’s just much rarer. I think a major factor in that is the effect of peers. At the above mentioned schools there are a lot of really good physics students while at other schools there are many less and that really changes the dynamic.</p>