Transfer to Bowdoin from another LAC

vonlost
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:14:36 +0000

Here is the top 100 per capita PhD list (courtesy of interesteddad):

Percentage of graduates getting a PhD
Academic field: ALL

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.
Note: Includes all NSF doctoral degrees inc. PhD, Divinity, etc., but not M.D. or Law.

1 35.8% California Institute of Technology
2       24.7%   Harvey Mudd College
3 21.1% Swarthmore College
4 19.9% Reed College
5 18.3% Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 16.8% Carleton College
7 15.8% Bryn Mawr College
8       15.7%   Oberlin College
9 15.3% University of Chicago
10      14.5%   Yale University
11 14.3% Princeton University
12 14.3% Harvard University
13 14.1% Grinnell College
14 13.8% Haverford College
15 13.8% Pomona College
16      13.1%   Rice University
17 12.7% Williams College
18      12.4%   Amherst College
19      11.4%   Stanford University
20 11.3% Kalamazoo College
21      11.0%   Wesleyan University
22      10.6%   St John's College (both campus)
23 10.6% Brown University
24 10.4% Wellesley College
25      10.0%   Earlham College
26 9.6% Beloit College
27      9.5%    Lawrence University
28 9.3% Macalester College
29 9.0% Cornell University, All Campuses
30      9.0%    Bowdoin College
31 8.9% Mount Holyoke College
32 8.9% Smith College
33 8.8% Vassar College
34      8.7%    Case Western Reserve University
35 8.7% Johns Hopkins University
36      8.7%    St Olaf College
37      8.7%    Hendrix College
38 8.6% Hampshire College
39 8.5% Trinity University
40 8.5% Knox College
41      8.5%    Duke University
42 8.4% Occidental College
43      8.3%    University of Rochester
44 8.3% College of Wooster
45      8.3%    Barnard College
46 8.2% Bennington College
47      8.1%    Columbia University in the City of New York
48      8.0%    Whitman College
49 7.9% University of California-Berkeley
50      7.9%    College of William and Mary
51 7.8% Carnegie Mellon University
52 7.8% New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
53      7.7%    Brandeis University
54 7.6% Dartmouth College
55 7.5% Wabash College
56 7.5% Bates College
57 7.5% Davidson College
58 7.2% Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
59 7.2% Franklin and Marshall College
60      7.1%    Fisk University
61 7.1% Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL)
62 6.8% University of California-San Francisco
63 6.8% Allegheny College
64 6.6% Furman University
65 6.5% University of Pennsylvania
66 6.5% Washington University
67 6.5% Bard College
68 6.4% Northwestern Univ
69 6.4% Rhodes College
70      6.3%    Agnes Scott College
71      6.3%    Spelman College
72 6.2% Antioch University, All Campuses
73 6.2% Kenyon College
74 6.2% University of Dallas
75 6.1% Ripon College
76 6.1% Colorado College
77 6.1% Bethel College (North Newton, KS)
78 6.0% Hamilton College
79 6.0% Goshen College
80 6.0% Middlebury College
81      6.0%    Erskine College
82      5.9%    University of the South
83      5.8%    University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
84      5.8%    Drew University
85 5.8% Wake Forest University
86 5.8% Tougaloo College
87      5.8%    Goucher College
88      5.7%    Chatham College
89 5.7% Cooper Union
90 5.7% Alfred University, Main Campus
91 5.7% Tufts University
92      5.6%    University of California-Santa Cruz
93 5.6% Colgate University
94 5.5% Colby College
95      5.4%    Bucknell University
96      5.4%    Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
97 5.4% Concordia Teachers College
98      5.4%    University of Virginia, Main Campus
99 5.3% Sarah Lawrence College
100     5.3%    Southwestern University