<p>Because biochem often means research, here are the top undergrad producers (by percentage) of future PhDs for bio and chem (no, there’s no biochem category, pick out the schools that do both):</p>
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Percent of PhDs per grad
Academic field: Bio and Health Sciences</p>
<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees:
ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database</p>
<p>Number of Undergraduates:
ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database</p>
<p>Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period </p>
<p>1 California Institute of Technology 5.4%
2 Reed College 4.8%
3 Swarthmore College 4.4%
4 University of Chicago 3.3%
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3.1%
6 University of California-San Francisco 3.1%
7 Harvard University 3.0%
8 Kalamazoo College 3.0%
9 Harvey Mudd College 2.9%
10 Earlham College 2.8%
11 Johns Hopkins University 2.7%
12 Princeton University 2.6%
13 Haverford College 2.6%
14 Mount Holyoke College 2.6%
15 Yale University 2.5%
16 Rice University 2.5%
17 Lawrence University 2.5%
18 Carleton College 2.5%
19 Stanford University 2.5%
20 Oberlin College 2.4%
21 Cornell University, All Campuses 2.4%
22 Grinnell College 2.3%
23 Hendrix College 2.3%
24 Bryn Mawr College 2.1%
25 Bowdoin College 2.1%
26 Wellesley College 2.1%
27 Amherst College 2.1%
Per Capita Undergrad Production of PhDs and Doctoral Degrees </p>
<p>Academic field: Chemistry </p>
<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees: 1994 to 2003 from NSF database </p>
<p>Enrollment from 2004 USNews </p>
<p>Formula: PhDs divided by undergrad enrollment times 1000 </p>
<p>1 Harvey Mudd College 100
2 California Institute of Technology 42
3 Wabash College 38
4 Reed College 30
5 Carleton College 30
6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 27
7 Bowdoin College 26
8 Grinnell College 24
9 Haverford College 24
10 Franklin and Marshall College 22
11 College of Wooster 22
12 Bryn Mawr College 19
13 Allegheny College 18
14 College of William and Mary 18
15 Texas Lutheran University 18
16 Furman University 17
17 University of Minnesota - Morris 17
18 Knox College 17
19 Occidental College 17
20 University of Chicago 16
21 Bates College 15
22 Rice University 15
23 Juniata College 15
24 Kalamazoo College 15
25 Williams College 15
26 Swarthmore College 15
27 Oberlin College 15
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