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<p>Why don’t you look at the percentage for each major. RocketDA is correct in that Mudd and Caltech are virtually equal in the percentage of students that go on to get a PhD by major. Overall Caltech might be higher because, as Seiken points out, Mudd is ~45% engineering. The data is thus skewed in a way because engineering drives the average down.</p>
<p>I personally don’t like to use the % PhD statistic to describe what’s good about Mudd (and Caltech) because it is skewed in general. Mudd and Caltech are both science schools and science majors are more likely to get PhDs, so the stat is misleading.</p>