Trip report: Bates, Bowdoin & Colby

Papa_Chicken
Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:30:32 +0000

good point marite…I did err however in my description (should have said “not ranked” rather than “not rated”)…Bowdoin was not ranked in the pool of 62 that did rank. So, relative to those other institutions which on average produce fewer PhDs overall, Bowdoin produces fewer undergraduates that go onto a language PhD. Interestingly, Williams was ranked 12th, wheras I had always heard that their language departments were not that strong…guess that is relative to their other departments. Of course, PhD production, especially for languages, may have little to do with quality of undergraduate program.