Biology Major

mini
Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:03:15 +0000

For what it’s worth, in terms of future Ph.D. productivity in biology, the top 9 undergraduate programs in the country are: Reed, Caltech, Swarthmore, UChicago, Kalamazoo, MIT, Earlham, Harvey Mudd, and Grinnell. However, once you factor out selectivity at admission (and hence measured the “program”, as opposed to the students who got into it), you’d end up with the first list I posted.

If you did the same with medical schools (not that it is particularly difficult to get into med. school these days), you’d have pretty much the same list, but you’d add Hampshire, and the women’s colleges - Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke, Smith, and Bryn Mawr.