<p>The study is titled “PERCENTAGE RANKING OF PH.D.S, BY ACADEMIC FIELD, CONFERRED UPON GRADUATES OF LISTED INSTITUTIONS”. I’m taking this to mean percent of undergraduates in a specific field who go on to get their PhDs. However, I think the OP is asking how difficult it would be to get into a good graduate school coming from Chicago. I’ll use my major to show how the two are entirely different.</p>
<p>Many math majors get recruited from schools like HYP directly out of undergrad to work at decent-paying jobs in a variety of areas. Math majors from, say, Harvey Mudd, don’t necessarily have the same advantage due to lack of HYP-like prestige. But in almost any case, a high-GPA B.A. in math from Harvard will be looked better upon in graduate admissions than a high-GPA B.A. in math from Harvey Mudd. (No offense to HM, as I have more than a few friends there who tell me that the math program is excellent.) This illustrates how a more respected school in a particular field can have a not-so-great ranking in said study. This may be irrelevant for Chicago’s case, though, as I think Chicago would rank high on both lists.</p>
<p>Not really relevant, but interesting: <a href=“WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights”>WSJ in Higher Education | Trusted News & Real-World Insights;