<p>Harvey Mudd is second only to Caltech in overall PhD productivity:</p>
<p>[REED</a> COLLEGE PHD PRODUCTIVITY](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/phd.html]REED”>Doctoral Degree Productivity - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>
<p>and is similarly ranked for specific fields, to answer question 1.</p>
<p>The standard answer to question 2 is that Mudd students can be found at all of the top graduate schools. Mudd is a highly competitive school with relatively low grade inflation, so a student still has to get adequate grades. Simply attending an excellent undergraduate school doesn’t guarantee grad school.</p>