<p>According to National Science Foundation data, LACs with the highest PhD production rates from 2006- 2010 included Reed, Pomona, Carleton, Swarthmore, Williams, St. Olaf, and Oberlin. Alumni of each of those LACs (and no others) earned at least 10 PhDs in math/stat during that 5-year period. According to my own calculations, here’s how those 7 LACs stacked up to leading research universities for per capita math PhD production:</p>
<p>California Institute of Technology (39 math/stat PhDs per 1000 currently enrolled undergrads)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
**Reed College<a href=“13%20math/stat%20PhDs%20per%201000%20currently%20enrolled%20undergrads”>/b</a>
University of Chicago
Pomona College
Carleton College
Harvard University
Swarthmore College
Princeton University
Williams College
Yale University
Stanford University
St Olaf College
**Oberlin College<a href=“4%20math/stat%20PhDs%20per%201000%20currently%20enrolled%20undergrads”>/b</a>
Columbia (3 math/stat PhDs per 1000 currently enrolled undergrads)</p>
<p>What I’m measuring:
The number of PhDs earned by alumni of these schools in 2006-2010 according to NSF data, divided by the number of currently enrolled undergrads according to Wikipedia.
Source: <a href=“NCSES”>NCSES;