<p>I don’t believe any such list exists. Nothing that is up to date and reliable, that is. Even if there was agreement on some set of objective criteria, the supporting data probably would not be available.</p>
<p>You have a couple of “proxy” rankings that might get you close. One is the US News ranking of graduate biology programs (but this will miss all the LACs). Another is the HEDS/IPEDS ranking of colleges by baccalaureate origins of PhD recipients (where did biology PhDs go to college?) In life sciences, the top 10 per capita spans a nice range from selective (Kalamazoo) to super selective (CalTech and Swarthmore). It also includes LACs (like Kalamazoo and Swarthmore), two technical institutes (MIT, CalTech), and one research university (Chicago) … and spans a range from rural (Grinnell) to suburban (Haverford) and urban (Chicago, MIT). So this list (link below) would be a good place to start.</p>
<p>[COLLEGE</a> PHD PRODUCTIVITY](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/phd.html]COLLEGE”>Doctoral Degree Productivity - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>