LAC department size versus selectivity: PhD productivity

Catfish
Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:31:46 +0000

collegehelp, I see what you mean. I would expect there to be an auto-correlation between raw total of chem majors and total PhD’s. I also would think that the proportion would also correlate, since a higher proportion means that there are more total majors. From these factors alone, however, I would expect the proportion to be less correlated than the raw total. Since the proportion correlates better than the raw total, I think your theory about better department -> more majors is pretty accurate, but we need more data. Is the pattern similar for large universities?