<p>The chart below listing undergraduate origins of PhDs in Sciences and Engineering is from the Swarthmore web site for the decade 1995-2004. Obviously, the data skews in favor of schools offering engineering degrees (MIT, Caltech, Mudd, Swarthmore, HYP, Rice). But it gives a pretty good snapshot of LACs (and some uni’s) with strong undergrad departments in the sciences in general. Missing from the list but still to be considered, especially in the Boston/NE zone, are (at least) Bowdoin and Wellesley. </p>
<p>Within this general listing there are still some notables, Carleton and Mudd (physical sciences), Swarthmore and Reed (biology), etc.</p>
<p>Institution All Disciplines Sciences & Engineering</p>
<ol>
<li> Caltech </li>
<li> Harvey Mudd </li>
<li> Swarthmore </li>
<li> Reed </li>
<li> MIT </li>
<li> Carleton </li>
<li> Oberlin </li>
<li> Bryn Mawr </li>
<li> U Chicago </li>
<li>Grinnell </li>
<li>Yale </li>
<li>Princeton </li>
<li>Haverford </li>
<li>Pomona </li>
<li>Rice </li>
<li>Amherst </li>
<li>St. John’s (Md) </li>
<li>Harvard </li>
<li>Williams </li>
<li>Wesleyan</li>
</ol>