Does the relative size of a department indicate quality?

[interesteddad]

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Within this small sample of LAC English departments, the raw number of PhDs produced and the PhD-to-enrollment ratio mean about the same thing because the enrollments at these few LACs are pretty similar.

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<p>I think you have to be very careful using raw totals because the differences in undergrad enrollment between LACs can be huge. For example, Smith and Wesleyan each have double the number of undergrads compared to Haverford. Double is a pretty signficant difference!</p>