Economics schools

vonlost
Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:17:16 +0000

Here’s yet another way of looking at the problem of programs (or the program of problems):

The undergrad producers of the highest percentages of future econ PhDs (first posted by interesteddad):

Number of PhDs per 1000 grads

Academic field: Economics

PhDs and Doctoral Degrees:
ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database

Number of Graduates:
ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database

Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000
graduates over the ten year period

1 Swarthmore College 16
2       Grinnell College    7
3       Williams College    7
4       Carleton College    7
5       Harvard University  6
6       Agnes Scott College 6
7       Massachusetts Institute of Technology   5
8       University of Chicago   5
9       Yale University 5
10      California Institute of Technology  5
11      Princeton University    5
12      Macalester College  5
13      Stanford University 4
14      Pomona College  4
15      Oberlin College 4
16      Wellesley College   4
17      Trinity University  4
18      Bowdoin College 3
19      Earlham College 3
20      Berea College   3
21      Amherst College 3
22      Wabash College  3
23      Bard College    3
24      Rocky Mountain College  3
25      Coe College 3
26      Wesleyan University 3
27      College of William and Mary 3
28      Colby College   3
29      Columbia University in the City of New York 3
30      Hillsdale College   3
31      Franklin and Marshall College   3