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<p>Wesleyan is a Baccalaureate Level I (Bac-A&S) institution, the same category occupied by Middlebury, Williams, Colby and most LACs, as defined by the Carnegie Foundation, but for reasons of history and good fortune, it is the only one with doctoral programs in the hard sciences and math. What sets it apart from a research university are the small number of actual graduate students. At a graduation rate of something like sixteen or seventeen Ph.Ds a year, undergraduates are absolutely needed.</p>