<p>This following list is taken from Reed’s alumni data base. Berkeley is most common university of Ph.D. award, as might be expected.</p>
<p>[REED</a> COLLEGE LIFE AFTER REED](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/ir/success.html]REED”>Life After Reed - Institutional Research - Reed College)</p>
<p>Reed is the leading undergraduate institution, behind science-only Caltech and Harvey Mudd, in Ph.D. productivity .</p>
<p>[The</a> Colleges Where PhD’s Get Their Start | The College Solution](<a href=“http://www.thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/]The”>The Colleges Where PhD's Get Their Start)</p>
<p>At Reed, all students must take qualifying examinations in their major at the end of the junior year and write at full-year thesis in the senior year.</p>
<p>All classes except for intro science ones are small. For example, the required freshman Humanities course covering Greek and Roman civilization meets three times weekly with a professor in groups of 15 or so students, on top a three hours per week of lectures. All humanities and social science classes are taught in a conference or discussion style format with students and a professor. Professors are readily accessible.</p>
<p>If you do well at Reed, you will get you into a better grad school than you would at Michigan, and with funding. Private universities like Chicago, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Hopkins, etc. are partial to accepting students from private undergraduate institutions like Reed. As with all humanities fields, getting funding for a Ph.D. to the finish is critical. Attending a well-endowed private university for a philosophy Ph.D. is often a plus.</p>
<p>It would be foolish for OP to turn down Reed for a very large state university like Michigan, which use large lecture classes and grad students as TA’s and class instructors (for budgetary reasons), especially in the unusual case of the same cost for OP.</p>