Top 10 Colleges Graduating Students Who Later Earn PhDs
Undergrad Origins Of PhDs
Despite Reed College’s possible letter-writing inadequacy, they kick ass at molding their undergrads for PhD-hood. Their website has a very shiny table that shows the top 10 schools in the nation where PhD recipients earned their baccalaureate degree.
The table tracks a decent interval, from 1975 to 2004. It’s interesting to note the fairly solid state of the list: only 11 schools make it to the Top 10 in the 29-year span. It’s not the list I thought it would be—there are schools I hadn’t expected as well as several schools I assumed would have been on the list and aren’t.
Here’s the list, including number 11, in alphabetical order so I don’t piss anyone off:
Bryn Mawr
California Institute of Technology
Carleton
Grinnell
Harvey Mudd
MIT
Oberlin
Pomona
Reed
Swarthmore
University of Chicago
Grinnell College has part of the list as well, broken down by discipline. It’s interesting, but kind of a tease as they only show a tiny section of the list for each discipline where Grinnell appears. They only show the other schools at all for “context.” It is on their website, they can choose which parts to show us.
Earlham College has a good chunk of the data on their site that you can check out.
I don’t know whom you have to pay to be allowed to see the entire list. I looked, and the closest I came to finding the list in its entirety was someone else wondering how in the hell to get a copy of it. Feel free to let me know if anyone can shed some light.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
I am curious if any has any comment on the site http://www.top20network.com. They are a network of individuals and businesses, but limited to the top 20 colleges. Any thoughts on this? Isn’t that kind of elitist. I am not from a top 20 college, but I wish I was so that I could check it out. Thanks.
Wow. I just looked at it (from the Tiny Mortal vantage point) and just their little invite page scared the crap out of me. It gave me disturbing flashbacks of Atlas Shrugged. Maybe it IS Atlas Shrugged and only the 1000 people who join get the plane ride to the super secret cabin community in the middle of nowhere. Sounds like a Fortune 500 cult to me. It’s probably better that you’re not allowed.