<p>"It is clearly possible to earn a PhD after attending any good undergrad school. "</p>
<p>It is clearly possible to earn a Phd after attending any of the schools on this list, which is where most PhDs actually come from (undergrad schools of PhD and Doctoral Degree earners 1994 to 2003, I believe) :</p>
<p>1 University of California-Berkeley 4,470
2 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 3,134
3 Cornell University 3,033
4 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2,931
5 University of Wisconsin-Madison 2,667
6 University of Texas at Austin 2,613
7 Harvard University 2,545
8 Pennsylvania State U, Main Campus 2,519
9 University of California-Los Angeles 2,454
10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2,078
11 Brigham Young University, Main Campus 2,049
12 University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 1,970
13 Michigan State University 1,917
14 Stanford University 1,894
15 Yale University 1,877
16 Ohio State University, Main Campus 1,876
17 University of Florida 1,863
18 University of California-Davis 1,829
19 Texas A&M University Main Campus 1,770
20 University of Pennsylvania 1,688
21 Purdue University, Main Campus 1,654
22 University of California-San Diego 1,624
23 Rutgers the State Univ of NJ New Brunswick 1,607
24 University of Maryland at College Park 1,592
25 Princeton University 1,585
26 University of Washington - Seattle 1,580
27 Indiana University at Bloomington 1,575
28 University of Virginia, Main Campus 1,567
29 Brown University 1,554
30 University of Colorado at Boulder 1,510
31 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1,453
32 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ 1,386
33 University of Arizona 1,356
34 Duke University 1,313
35 Northwestern Univ 1,273
36 University of Massachusetts at Amherst 1,265
37 University of Chicago 1,263
38 University of California-Santa Barbara 1,251
39 University of California-Santa Cruz 1,209
40 SUNY at Buffalo 1,169
41 Iowa State University 1,164
42 Boston University 1,144
43 University of Iowa 1,138
44 Florida State University 1,110
45 Oberlin College 1,107
46 Columbia University in the City of New York 1,101
47 University of Missouri, Columbia 1,086
48 University of California-Irvine 1,077
49 University of PR Rio Piedras Campus 1,034
50 University of Georgia 1,011
51 College of William and Mary 1,005
52 Arizona State University Main 985
53 University of Rochester 983
54 University of Notre Dame 983
55 University of Nebraska at Lincoln 978
56 University of Kansas, Main Campus 952
57 University of Tennessee at Knoxville 951
58 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 929
59 University of Delaware 921
60 Miami University, All Campuses 904
61 Washington University 897
62 University of Pittsburgh Main Campus 881
63 Colorado State University 847
64 Louisiana State Univ & Agric & Mechanical 844
65 Rice University 842
66 New York University 842
67 University of Utah 834
68 Dartmouth College 817
69 San Diego State University 814
70 Johns Hopkins University 805
71 University of South Florida 794
72 SUNY at Binghamton 793
73 Auburn University, Main Campus 786
74 Wesleyan University 780
75 SUNY at Albany 775
76 Swarthmore College 770
77 Carleton College 766
78 University of Connecticut 764
79 Georgia Institute of Technology, Main Campus 757
80 Baylor University 756
81 Southern Illinois University-Carbondale 752
82 SUNY at Stony Brook, All Campuses 751
83 California Institute of Technology 738
84 Carnegie Mellon University 736
85 University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus 718
86 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 712
87 Tufts University 702
88 Georgetown University 699
89 Oklahoma State University, All Campuses 692
90 University of Southern California 692
91 University of Kentucky 690
92 University of Cincinnati, All Campuses 687
93 University of Oregon 683
94 University of South Carolina at Columbia 680
95 Texas Tech University 678
96 University of New Mexico, All Campuses 674
97 Ohio University, All Campuses 667
98 Temple University 664
99 University of Houston 647
100 Williams College 644</p>