Transfer to Bowdoin from another LAC

vonlost
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:29:26 +0000

’“8% PhD rate at a massive university means 800 PhDs vs. 15% PhD rate at a smaller school yields 200 PhDs.”’

A higher percentage at a small school might be of interest to those who value a group of like-minded peers.

‘And then there are the “Doctors of Slurpology”.’

Bowdoin does well in the science and technology categories:

Percentage of total grads getting PhDs in Engineering, Hard Science, and Math

PhDs and Doctoral Degrees: ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database
Number of Undergraduates: ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database
Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period

1 34% California Institute of Technology
2       24% Harvey Mudd College
3 16% Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 10% Reed College
5       9%  Rice University
6 8% Swarthmore College
7 8% Princeton University
8 7% Carleton College
9 7% New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
10 7% University of Chicago
11 7% Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
12      7%  Case Western Reserve University
13 6% Harvard University
14 6% Carnegie Mellon University
15 6% Johns Hopkins University
16 6% Haverford College
17 6% Grinnell College
18 6% Cornell University, All Campuses
19 5% Kalamazoo College
20      5%  Stanford University
21      5%  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
22      5%  Yale University
23 5% Cooper Union
24      5%  Oberlin College
25      5%  Lawrence University
26 5% Bryn Mawr College
27 5% Williams College
28 5% Pomona College
29 4% Colorado School of Mines
30 4% **Bowdoin College**
31      4%  Earlham College
32 4% Brown University
33      4%  University of Rochester
34 4% University of California-Berkeley
35 4% Wabash College
36      4%  Duke University
37      4%  Worcester Polytechnic Institute
38      4%  Amherst College
39      4%  Stevens Institute of Technology
40      4%  St Olaf College
41      4%  Hendrix College
42 4% Beloit College
43 4% University of Missouri, Rolla
44 4% University of California-San Francisco
45 4% Occidental College
46 4% Alfred University, Main Campus
47 4% Allegheny College
48      4%  Whitman College
49 4% College of Wooster
50 4% SUNY College of Environmental Sci & Forestry
51 4% Mount Holyoke College
52 4% Bates College
53      4%  College of William and Mary
54 4% Knox College
55 3% Franklin and Marshall College
56 3% Georgia Institute of Technology, Main Campus
57 3% Washington University
58 3% Long Island University Southampton Campus
59 3% Macalester College
60 3% University of California-San Diego
61 3% Dartmouth College
62 3% Wellesley College
63 3% Trinity University
64      3%  Juniata College
65 3% Ripon College
66 3% University of California-Davis
67      3%  Florida Institute of Technology
68 3% Polytechnic University
69 3% Michigan Technological University
70      3%  Columbia University in the City of New York
71 3% Lehigh University
72 3% University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
73 3% Centre College
74 3% Hampshire College
75 3% University of Pennsylvania
76      3%  Wesleyan University
77      3%  University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
78 3% Colorado College
79      3%  Bucknell University
80 3% Davidson College
81 3% Northwestern Univ
82 3% Texas Lutheran University
83      3%  St John's College (both campus)
84 3% Furman University
85 3% Hope College
86      2%  Clarkson University
87      2%  University of Virginia, Main Campus
88 2% Illinois Institute of Technology
89 2% Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
90      2%  Union College (Schenectady, NY)
91      2%  University of California-Santa Cruz
92 2% Lafayette College
93      2%  Brandeis University
94 2% University of Dallas
95 2% Rhodes College
96 2% University of Notre Dame
97 2% Middlebury College
98      2%  University of Wisconsin-Madison
99 2% Colgate University
100     2%  Hiram College