<p>Thanks for the link - very helpful.</p>
<p>Here are the # of NSF winners from the past 10 years (all of the info they had):</p>
<p>Year Caltech Mudd
2006 12 10
2005 11 6
2004 11 12
2003 15 7
2002 12 7
2001 8 3
2000 9 4
1999 9 10
1998 14 7
1997 24 4
1996 10 3
Total: 135 73
Renormalized to population: 105 73</p>
<p>You might want to check my numbers (Caltech especially, because I only exported the first two to excel). </p>
<p>Anyway, this is about as I expected. It’s not like Mudd really trails by that far, but I still think that’s a large enough difference to claim significance. If you want larger numbers, you could go through the honorable mention lists as they have about 2 times the people.</p>
<p>As for,
Of</a> course you failed to mention that, that 30-year period is from 1951-1981. If you can show me something like this for the next 30 year period (but with actual counts of PhDs), I would be more convinced. Until then, I’m more inclined to believe the numbers I quoted which originated in an NSF study of PhD graduates from 1994-2003.</p>
<p>edit: someone should really check my numbers - I rechecked the 2005 numbers, and Mudd got 3 that year instead of 6. Caltech still got 11.</p>