Which is better for history?

White_Rabbit
Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:53:05 +0000

“of the top ten schools that produce grads that go on to history PhDs”

Per Capita! I think it depends on what level of schools you are looking at. I can only say that of all the Professors I’ve taken classes from or read the CV of at my school, only one attended a LAC (He transfered there from UChicago). Most attended Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, or Oxford for undergraduate. Of course that is just an example from a specific school. But what I am trying to say is that it would be wrong to think that LAC’s have something about them that produces Ph.Ds. I think that students who go to LAC’s might be more interested in learning for learnings sake on average, but there are a large number of equally interested students at top universities. I know at my school, of the 4 history courses I’ve taken so far as an undergraduate, none had more then 30 students. One had 7, one has 6, one has 15, and one had 28.