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This is a ranking of the top 20 baccalaureate schools of PhDs in biological and biomedical sciences.

This information is from the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates 1995-2006 and from IPEDS. I divided the number of PhDs from a particular baccalaureate school by the number of bachelors degrees awarded by that school in the same fields (biological sci). I think this is a more valid way to "normalize" PhD production.

The number of bachelors degrees is the total over three years 2002-2004 in biological and biomedical sciences. These were the earliest available from the IPEDS website. I thought a three-year total would be more reliable than a one-year snapshot.

Other methods divide by total undergraduate enrollment. When you divide by total undergraduate enrollment schools are penalized if they have large numbers of undergrads in other fields.

I limited the schools to roughly the top 100 US News universities and top 100 LACs plus the SUNY schools, some additional tech schools, and a few schools that are not top 100 in US News but which produce large numbers of PhDs.

school, PhDs produced in biological sci 1995-2006, bachelors degrees granted 2002-2004 in same fields, ratio


1 California Institute Of Technology 136 76 1.789
2 Harvey Mudd College 55 32 1.719
3 Bennington College 8 5 1.600
4 Wesleyan University 126 93 1.355
5 Oberlin College 183 139 1.317
6 Massachusetts Inst. Of Technology 418 329 1.271
7 Princeton University 327 267 1.225
8 Swarthmore College 164 135 1.215
9 Wellesley College 130 113 1.150
10 Amherst College 84 74 1.135
11 Harvard University 566 513 1.103
12 Stanford University 423 399 1.060
13 Reed College 125 124 1.008
14 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 121 121 1.000
15 Yale University 362 381 0.950
16 Duke University 335 365 0.918
17 Kalamazoo College 86 95 0.905
18 Rice University 184 204 0.902
19 University Of Chicago 304 340 0.894
20 Johns Hopkins University 257 296 0.868