Explain these ridiculously high grad school rates?

Colleges & Universities Williams College
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<p>Here is the weighted Doctoral origins study that includes both LACs and Universities on the same ranked list. It provides data for each of the last three decades, for every field of study monitored by the NSF. Caution, it’s an 84 page, 340k PDF file:</p>

<p><a href=“http://web.centre.edu/ir/student/OverallBaccOrigins.pdf[/url]”>http://web.centre.edu/ir/student/OverallBaccOrigins.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>For the decade of the 1990s, the top twenty-five in overall doctorate production, per 100 undergrads were:</p>

<p>CalTech
Harvey Mudd
Swarthmore
Reed
MIT
Carleton
Bryn Mawr
U Chicago
Oberlin
Yale</p>

<p>Princeton
Grinnell
Haverford
Curtis Inst. of Music
St. John’s
Pomona
Kalamazoo
Rice
Peabody/Johns Hopkins
Julliard</p>

<p>Amherst
Williams
New England Conservatory
Stanford
Harvard</p>

<p>Note that this does NOT include medical or law degrees.</p>