Colleges that produce the highest # of PhDs
Sep 27, 2021These colleges produce the highest percentage of eventual doctorate recipients in the humanities, natural sciences, and social and behavior sciences. Institutions are listed in rank order and based on statistics provided by the National Science Foundation’s Weighted Baccalaureate Origins Study. The stack ranking is based on the # of PhDs produced.
- Reed College
- Swarthmore College
- Carleton College
- Pomona College
- Haverford College
- California Institute of Technology
- Grinnell College
- Williams College
- Amherst College
- Oberlin College
- Kalamazoo College
- Wellesley College
- Vassar College
- Macalester College
- Allegheny College
- Bowdoin College
- Kenyon College
- Wesleyan University
- Whitman College
- Mounty Holyoke College
- Barnard College
- Hendrix College
- Davidson College
- Princeton University
- St. Olaf College