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Hey I am going to be a senior in high school next year and I was wondering which undergraduate colleges are good at sending their students to good grad schools. I use the term "good" to mean highly ranked schools in a profession or just any of the Ivy Leagues.

This will not be my main factor when applying to college but I was just wondering.

By Fiza (Fiza) on Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 11:42 pm: Edit

haha id like to know this too

By Ariesathena (Ariesathena) on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 12:17 am: Edit

There is a list of "Professional boot camp" schools, which should suffice for this (I believe Princton Review publishes it). JHU, MIT, and Tufts were the top three on the list. Basically, small LACs will help with law school; a school that weeds out students in large intro classes is great for med school; a school which makes you work harder than you thought you could work will have an excellent repuation with grad schools.

By Ben (Ben) on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 04:16 am: Edit

"PERCENTAGE RANKING OF PH.D.S, BY ACADEMIC FIELD, CONFERRED UPON GRADUATES OF LISTED INSTITUTIONS

Foreign Languages
Bryn Mawr
Reed
Grinnell
Multnomah Bible
Kalamazoo
Amherst
St. John's
Knox
Univ.of the South
Lawrence

Life Sciences
Reed
California Institute of Technology
Swarthmore
Rush
Kalamazoo
Univ. of Chicago
Johns Hopkins
Earlham
SUNY Environ. Sci.
MIT

Political Science
Swarthmore
Tougaloo
Reed
Haverford
Princeton
Univ. of Chicago
St. John's
Mt. Senario
Oberlin
Williams

Chemistry
Harvey Mudd
California Institute of Technology
Reed
Wabash
Carleton
College of Wooster
Grinnell
Kalamazoo
Texas Lutheran
Lyon

History
Grace
Yale
Swarthmore
Reed
Wesleyan
Grinnell
Pomona
Carleton
Univ. of Chicago
Oberlin

Humanities
St. John's
Thomas Aquinas
Bryn Mawr
Reed
Yale
Swarthmore
Amherst
Oberlin
Carleton
Pomona

Mathematics and Statistics
California Institute of Technology
Harvey Mudd
Reed
MIT
Univ. of Chicago
St. Olaf
Pomona
Rice
St. John's
Grinnell

All Disciplines
California Institute of Technology
Harvey Mudd
Swarthmore
Reed
MIT
Carleton
Bryn Mawr
Univ. of Chicago
Oberlin
Yale

Source: Weighted Baccalaureate Origins Study, Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium, 2002. This shows baccalaureate origins of people granted Ph.D.s from 1991 to 2000. The listing shows the top 10 institutions in the nation ranked by percentage of graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. in selected disciplines."
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There are more subjects at:
http://www.earlham.edu/~ir/bac_origins_report/bac_origins.html

Notice the recurrence of Reed in Ph.D productivity, a small liberal arts college. =)

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 12:29 pm: Edit

Ben, thank you so much for this information. What's particularly interesting is what's missing from these lists: many of those "top 25 schools" like Emory, Georgetown, UPenn, Harvard, Duke, Colgate, etc. that so many people get enamored with...