Caltech vs Harvey Mudd - % Alumni who earn PhDs

Colleges & Universities California Institute of Technology
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<p>Caltech page: “It serves as good preparation for graduate school and helps to explain why Caltech has the highest percentage of alumni who go on to receive a PhD of all the major universities.”
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Mudd page: “A third of the student body are National Merit Scholars, and about 40 percent of graduates go on to earn a Ph.D.—the highest rate of any college or university in the nation.”
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Which is correct?</p>

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<p>Harvey Mudd’s claim is probably not 100% right. See the link below. But it’s probably close to a tie.</p>

<p><a href=“http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:VllvgDYF1UEJ:hseagle.sas.edu.sg/hscounseling/College/phds.htm+“percentage”+“PhD”+“harvey+mudd”&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4[/url]”>http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:VllvgDYF1UEJ:hseagle.sas.edu.sg/hscounseling/College/phds.htm+“percentage”+“PhD”+“harvey+mudd”&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>(By the way, the claim on the Caltech page is strictly correct, since HMC is not a “major university”.)</p>

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<p>I think Caltech’s PhD rate is about 36% and Harvey Mudd’s is about 25%. Both have the highest two rates in the country though with Swarthmore and Reed just behind.</p>

<p>That 40% number must be wrong though.</p>

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<p>I believe Mudd is slightly behind Caltech. Only slighty. :)</p>

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<p>i read 37.7% vs 37.5% mudd/caltech (or something very similar in that order) somewhere. the phd productivity stats that are most commonly alluded to are those between 1993 and 2003. i know for sure that mudd had a huge phd boost in 2005… on the order of 10% comparatively to previous years.</p>

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<p>I say: who really cares? If you want to get a PhD, you’ll get one whether you go to Caltech or Mudd for undergrad.</p>