Top Feeders to Ph.D. Programs (Ph.D. Productivity)
For those pursuing careers in academia and/or research, a terminal degree in your field of choice will typically be required in order to maximize your professional prospects.
Most frequently, this will entail earning a Ph.D. in either the hard sciences, social sciences, or humanities. In order to gain acceptance into a Ph.D. program, and—more importantly—successfully complete the degree, you will need refined skills in the areas of oral and written communication, self-directed research, and analysis and problem-solving. Certain undergraduate colleges are known for churning out graduates with this unique blend of talents who go on to earn doctoral degrees and become leaders in the world of higher education.
In order to identify “top Ph.D. feeder” colleges, we relied on data from the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), an annual census conducted of all individuals earning a research doctorate from an accredited U.S. institution. Using SED, we identified the undergraduate backgrounds of all research doctorate recipients over the past five years, examining which institutions produced the most Ph.D.s in total and across fourteen academic disciplines, specifically anthropology, biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, education, economics, engineering, foreign languages, history, mathematics & statistics, physics & astronomy, political science & government, psychology, and sociology. For each discipline, we construct two lists. The first list reveals the raw number of students per institution who go on to earn a Ph.D. The second list looks at the top Ph.D. producers when adjusting for one measure of an institution’s size, namely the number of undergraduate degrees an institution produces per year. This allows us to highlight schools that may be smaller in size, but that still produce a consistent flow of doctoral recipients.
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Total Ph.D.
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
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1 | University of California, Berkeley | 2638 | 1 | California Institute of Technology | 496 |
2 | University of Michigan | 1903 | 2 | Harvey Mudd College | 270 |
3 | Cornell University | 1675 | 3 | Swarthmore College | 425 |
4 | University of Florida | 1640 | 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1140 |
5 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 1610 | 5 | Carleton College | 450 |
6 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1555 | 6 | Reed College | 317 |
7 | University of California, Los Angeles | 1544 | 7 | Grinnell College | 311 |
8 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 1530 | 8 | Williams College | 376 |
9 | The University of Texas at Austin | 1461 | 9 | Haverford College | 231 |
10 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 1397 | 10 | Pomona College | 270 |
11 | University of California, San Diego | 1281 | 11 | St. John's College (MD) | 75 |
12 | Harvard University | 1215 | 12 | University of Chicago | 1035 |
13 | University of California, Davis | 1193 | 13 | Vassar College | 378 |
14 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 1186 | 14 | Bryn Mawr College | 207 |
15 | University of Washington | 1181 | 15 | Princeton University | 812 |
16 | Michigan State University | 1161 | 16 | Oberlin College | 408 |
17 | Ohio State University | 1155 | 17 | Yale University | 862 |
18 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 1143 | 18 | Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering | 56 |
19 | University of Maryland, College Park | 1141 | 19 | Wesleyan University | 432 |
20 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1140 | 20 | Amherst College | 262 |
21 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 1123 | 21 | Wellesley College | 345 |
22 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 1053 | 22 | Stanford University | 952 |
23 | University of Chicago | 1035 | 23 | Whitman College | 195 |
24 | Purdue University | 1019 | 24 | Macalester College | 286 |
25 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 987 | 25 | Kenyon College | 225 |
26 | Stanford University | 952 | 26 | New College of Florida | 105 |
27 | University of Arizona | 942 | 27 | Mount Holyoke College | 286 |
28 | University of Pennsylvania | 911 | 28 | Smith College | 320 |
29 | Brown University | 867 | 29 | Dartmouth College | 558 |
30 | Boston University | 866 | 30 | Brown University | 867 |
31 | Yale University | 862 | 31 | Harvard University | 1215 |
32 | Columbia University | 854 | 32 | Rice University | 480 |
33 | Florida State University | 853 | 33 | Bowdoin College | 209 |
34 | University of Colorado Boulder | 850 | 34 | Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | 96 |
35 | New York University | 835 | 35 | Duke University | 740 |
36 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 828 | 36 | Cornell University | 1675 |
37 | Princeton University | 812 | 37 | St. John's College (NM) | 35 |
38 | Arizona State University | 806 | 38 | Johns Hopkins University | 655 |
39 | University of Georgia | 802 | 39 | Wheaton College | 258 |
40 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 794 | 40 | Hendrix College | 129 |
41 | North Carolina State University | 789 | 41 | Middlebury College | 274 |
42 | University of California, Irvine | 754 | 42 | St Olaf College | 318 |
43 | University of Pittsburgh | 750 | 43 | Columbia University | 854 |
44 | Northwestern University | 747 | 44 | Barnard College | 266 |
45 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 744 | 45 | Colby College | 206 |
46 | Duke University | 740 | 46 | Earlham College | 108 |
47 | Washington University in St. Louis | 732 | 47 | Davidson College | 186 |
48 | Indiana University Bloomington | 729 | 48 | University of Rochester | 652 |
49 | University of Notre Dame | 713 | 49 | Colorado College | 209 |
50 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 680 | 50 | Scripps College | 104 |
Anthropology
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
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1 | University of California, Berkeley | 43 | 1 | Reed College | 15 |
2 | University of Michigan | 37 | 2 | Barnard College | 15 |
3 | University of Chicago | 37 | 3 | University of Chicago | 37 |
4 | New York University | 27 | 4 | Grinnell College | 9 |
5 | Stanford University | 25 | 5 | Oberlin College | 13 |
6 | Columbia University | 23 | 6 | Wesleyan University | 14 |
7 | Harvard University | 22 | 7 | Sarah Lawrence College | 6 |
8 | The University of Texas at Austin | 21 | 8 | Cornell College | 4 |
9 | University of California, Los Angeles | 20 | 9 | New College of Florida | 3 |
9 | Michigan State University | 20 | 10 | Bryn Mawr College | 5 |
11 | Boston University | 19 | 11 | Stanford University | 25 |
12 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 18 | 12 | Swarthmore College | 5 |
12 | University of Notre Dame | 18 | 13 | Beloit College | 4 |
14 | University of Pennsylvania | 17 | 14 | Haverford College | 4 |
14 | Brown University | 17 | 15 | Carleton College | 6 |
16 | Cornell University | 16 | 16 | Scripps College | 3 |
16 | University of Arizona | 16 | 17 | Columbia University | 23 |
16 | Washington University in St. Louis | 16 | 18 | Pitzer College | 3 |
16 | Yale University | 16 | 19 | Smith College | 7 |
16 | University of Florida | 16 | 20 | DePauw University | 6 |
21 | Reed College | 15 | 21 | Wellesley College | 7 |
21 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 15 | 22 | Macalester College | 6 |
21 | Barnard College | 15 | 23 | Bowdoin College | 5 |
21 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 15 | 24 | Lawrence University | 4 |
25 | Wesleyan University | 14 | 25 | Mount Holyoke College | 6 |
25 | University of Iowa | 14 | 26 | Whitman College | 4 |
27 | Oberlin College | 13 | 27 | Yale University | 16 |
27 | Duke University | 13 | 28 | Colby College | 5 |
27 | Emory University | 13 | 29 | Dartmouth College | 11 |
27 | Ohio State University | 13 | 30 | Brown University | 17 |
31 | University of Washington | 12 | 31 | Colorado College | 5 |
31 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 12 | 32 | Kenyon College | 4 |
33 | Indiana University Bloomington | 11 | 33 | Knox College | 3 |
33 | George Washington University | 11 | 34 | Harvey Mudd College | 2 |
33 | Dartmouth College | 11 | 35 | Harvard University | 22 |
33 | Arizona State University | 11 | 36 | Davidson College | 4 |
33 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 11 | 37 | Bard College | 4 |
38 | University of California, San Diego | 10 | 38 | St. John's College | 1 |
38 | Northwestern University | 10 | 39 | University of Notre Dame | 18 |
38 | University of Arkansas | 10 | 40 | Washington University in St. Louis | 16 |
38 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 10 | 41 | Middlebury College | 5 |
38 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 10 | 42 | Duke University | 13 |
38 | Binghamton University | 10 | 43 | Earlham College | 2 |
44 | University of Central Florida | 9 | 44 | Emory University | 13 |
44 | University of California, Riverside | 9 | 45 | Illinois Wesleyan University | 3 |
44 | Grinnell College | 9 | 46 | Allegheny College | 3 |
44 | University of Kansas | 9 | 47 | St Olaf College | 5 |
44 | Miami University | 9 | 48 | Vassar College | 4 |
49 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 8 | 49 | Amherst College | 3 |
49 | University of Georgia | 8 | 50 | Occidental College | 3 |
Biological Sciences
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
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1 | University of California, Berkeley | 607 | 1 | California Institute of Technology | 70 |
2 | Cornell University | 448 | 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 239 |
3 | University of California, Davis | 439 | 3 | Reed College | 68 |
4 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 415 | 4 | Swarthmore College | 71 |
5 | University of California, San Diego | 389 | 5 | Pomona College | 68 |
6 | University of California, Los Angeles | 361 | 6 | Haverford College | 55 |
7 | University of Michigan | 334 | 7 | Grinnell College | 72 |
8 | University of Washington | 297 | 8 | Carleton College | 85 |
9 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 275 | 9 | Harvey Mudd College | 32 |
10 | University of Florida | 265 | 10 | Mount Holyoke College | 73 |
11 | Michigan State University | 255 | 11 | Oberlin College | 90 |
12 | Harvard University | 254 | 12 | Earlham College | 33 |
13 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 246 | 13 | Johns Hopkins University | 188 |
14 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 241 | 14 | New College of Florida | 25 |
15 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 239 | 15 | St Olaf College | 94 |
16 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 238 | 16 | Whitman College | 45 |
17 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 234 | 17 | Amherst College | 56 |
18 | The University of Texas at Austin | 229 | 18 | Cornell University | 448 |
19 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 212 | 19 | Colby College | 58 |
20 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 210 | 20 | Juniata College | 41 |
21 | University of Maryland, College Park | 208 | 21 | University of Chicago | 190 |
22 | University of Pennsylvania | 203 | 22 | Williams College | 60 |
23 | University of Georgia | 199 | 23 | Scripps College | 30 |
24 | University of Colorado Boulder | 199 | 24 | Princeton University | 154 |
25 | Ohio State University | 195 | 25 | Stanford University | 195 |
25 | Stanford University | 195 | 26 | Bowdoin College | 50 |
27 | University of Chicago | 190 | 27 | Brown University | 189 |
28 | University of Arizona | 189 | 28 | Yale University | 159 |
28 | Brown University | 189 | 29 | Allegheny College | 47 |
28 | Johns Hopkins University | 188 | 30 | Duke University | 173 |
31 | Boston University | 184 | 31 | Harvard University | 254 |
32 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 179 | 32 | University of Rochester | 164 |
33 | Duke University | 173 | 33 | Brandeis University | 91 |
34 | University of California, Irvine | 166 | 34 | Hendrix College | 30 |
35 | Washington University in St. Louis | 164 | 35 | Kalamazoo College | 36 |
35 | University of Rochester | 164 | 36 | Ohio Wesleyan University | 38 |
37 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 162 | 37 | Vassar College | 59 |
38 | Purdue University | 161 | 38 | Davidson College | 44 |
38 | University of Pittsburgh | 161 | 39 | Ursinus College | 34 |
40 | Yale University | 159 | 40 | St. Mary's College of Maryland | 36 |
41 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 157 | 41 | Middlebury College | 58 |
42 | Indiana University Bloomington | 156 | 42 | Bryn Mawr College | 30 |
43 | Princeton University | 154 | 43 | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry | 40 |
44 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 147 | 44 | Rice University | 87 |
45 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 146 | 45 | Case Western Reserve University | 113 |
46 | Arizona State University | 142 | 46 | Kenyon College | 37 |
47 | North Carolina State University | 141 | 47 | Wellesley College | 54 |
48 | Colorado State University | 138 | 48 | Washington University in St. Louis | 164 |
48 | Columbia University | 138 | 49 | Wesleyan University | 63 |
50 | University of Connecticut | 135 | 50 | Colorado College | 43 |
Chemistry
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
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1 | University of California, Berkeley | 117 | 1 | California Institute of Technology | 41 |
2 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 71 | 2 | Harvey Mudd College | 33 |
3 | University of California, San Diego | 70 | 3 | Carleton College | 41 |
4 | University of California, Davis | 67 | 4 | Grinnell College | 25 |
5 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 59 | 5 | Washington & Jefferson College | 18 |
6 | University of Florida | 57 | 6 | The College of Wooster | 26 |
7 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 55 | 7 | Kalamazoo College | 19 |
8 | Purdue University | 52 | 8 | Whitman College | 19 |
9 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 52 | 9 | Haverford College | 15 |
10 | Cornell University | 51 | 10 | Juniata College | 16 |
11 | University of Chicago | 49 | 11 | Allegheny College | 19 |
12 | University of California, Irvine | 48 | 12 | Reed College | 15 |
12 | University of California, Los Angeles | 48 | 13 | New College of Florida | 8 |
12 | University of Michigan | 48 | 14 | Franklin and Marshall College | 22 |
15 | The University of Texas at Austin | 47 | 15 | Hope College | 29 |
15 | College of William and Mary | 47 | 16 | Swarthmore College | 14 |
15 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 47 | 17 | Illinois Wesleyan University | 15 |
15 | University of Pittsburgh | 47 | 18 | College of the Holy Cross | 26 |
19 | University of Washington | 42 | 19 | Bryn Mawr College | 12 |
19 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 42 | 20 | Macalester College | 19 |
21 | Carleton College | 41 | 21 | Williams College | 18 |
21 | California Institute of Technology | 41 | 22 | Hamilton College | 17 |
23 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 40 | 23 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 39 |
23 | Western Washington University | 40 | 24 | University of Minnesota-Morris | 13 |
23 | University at Buffalo | 40 | 25 | Furman University | 22 |
23 | Western Washington University | 40 | 26 | Wellesley College | 20 |
23 | Florida State University | 40 | 27 | Saint Johns University | 13 |
28 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 39 | 28 | Willamette University | 14 |
29 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 38 | 29 | University of Chicago | 49 |
30 | Boston University | 37 | 30 | College of William and Mary | 47 |
30 | University of Arizona | 37 | 31 | St Olaf College | 21 |
32 | The College of New Jersey | 36 | 32 | Knox College | 9 |
32 | Michigan State University | 36 | 33 | Hendrix College | 8 |
32 | Harvard University | 36 | 34 | Davidson College | 12 |
35 | Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo | 35 | 35 | St. Mary's College of Maryland | 10 |
36 | University of Rochester | 34 | 36 | Bard College | 12 |
36 | Truman State University | 34 | 37 | Gustavus Adolphus College | 14 |
36 | Ohio State University | 34 | 38 | Truman State University | 34 |
39 | Harvey Mudd College | 33 | 39 | Trinity University | 15 |
40 | New York University | 32 | 40 | Saint Mary's College | 9 |
40 | Northwestern University | 32 | 41 | Stonehill College | 15 |
42 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 31 | 42 | University of Richmond | 19 |
42 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 31 | 43 | Gettysburg College | 14 |
42 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 31 | 44 | Pomona College | 9 |
45 | North Carolina State University | 30 | 45 | Wabash College | 5 |
45 | Carnegie Mellon University | 30 | 46 | Centre College | 8 |
47 | Arizona State University | 29 | 47 | Westmont College | 7 |
47 | University of Maryland, College Park | 29 | 48 | Austin College | 7 |
47 | Hope College | 29 | 49 | Wheaton College | 13 |
50 | University of Connecticut | 28 | 50 | Wofford College | 9 |
Computer Science
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
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1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 75 | 1 | California Institute of Technology | 33 |
2 | University of California, Berkeley | 68 | 2 | Harvey Mudd College | 20 |
3 | Carnegie Mellon University | 62 | 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 75 |
4 | Stanford University | 46 | 4 | Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering | 4 |
5 | University of Michigan | 43 | 5 | Carnegie Mellon University | 62 |
5 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 43 | 6 | Swarthmore College | 14 |
7 | Cornell University | 39 | 7 | Williams College | 15 |
7 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 39 | 8 | Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | 6 |
9 | The University of Texas at Austin | 38 | 9 | Carleton College | 14 |
9 | Harvard University | 38 | 10 | Stanford University | 46 |
11 | University of Maryland, College Park | 35 | 11 | Pomona College | 9 |
12 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 34 | 12 | Princeton University | 26 |
12 | University of Washington | 34 | 13 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 28 |
14 | California Institute of Technology | 33 | 14 | Duke University | 27 |
15 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 32 | 15 | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 8 |
16 | University of California, San Diego | 30 | 16 | Harvard University | 38 |
17 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 29 | 17 | Saint Johns University | 6 |
18 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 28 | 18 | United States Military Academy | 16 |
19 | Duke University | 27 | 19 | Brown University | 24 |
20 | Princeton University | 26 | 20 | Reed College | 5 |
21 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 25 | 21 | University of Tulsa | 11 |
22 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 24 | 22 | Wesleyan University | 10 |
22 | Purdue University | 24 | 23 | Yale University | 18 |
22 | University of Central Florida | 24 | 24 | Dartmouth College | 13 |
22 | Brown University | 24 | 25 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 13 |
22 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 24 | 26 | Wellesley College | 7 |
27 | University of California, Los Angeles | 23 | 27 | Rice University | 11 |
28 | University of Arizona | 21 | 28 | Amherst College | 5 |
28 | University of California, Irvine | 21 | 29 | Case Western Reserve University | 14 |
30 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 20 | 30 | Johns Hopkins University | 16 |
30 | Harvey Mudd College | 20 | 31 | Cornell University | 39 |
30 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 20 | 32 | University of Chicago | 17 |
33 | University of Florida | 19 | 33 | Oberlin College | 7 |
33 | University of California, Davis | 19 | 34 | Tufts University | 14 |
35 | Ohio State University | 18 | 35 | Vassar College | 6 |
35 | Northwestern University | 18 | 36 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 39 |
35 | University of Utah | 18 | 37 | DePauw University | 5 |
35 | Yale University | 18 | 38 | Clarkson University | 7 |
39 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | 17 | 39 | University of California, Berkeley | 68 |
39 | Columbia University | 17 | 40 | Bard College | 4 |
39 | University of Chicago | 17 | 41 | University of Richmond | 7 |
39 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 17 | 42 | Ursinus College | 3 |
43 | Indiana University Bloomington | 16 | 43 | Northwestern University | 18 |
43 | University of Delaware | 16 | 44 | United States Air Force Academy | 9 |
43 | University of Pittsburgh | 16 | 45 | Columbia University | 17 |
43 | Johns Hopkins University | 16 | 46 | Lawrence University | 3 |
43 | United States Military Academy | 16 | 47 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 6 |
48 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 15 | 48 | Cornell College | 2 |
48 | University of Missouri-Columbia | 15 | 49 | Florida Institute of Technology | 7 |
48 | University of California, Riverside | 15 | 50 | Earlham College | 2 |
48 | University of Notre Dame | 15 | |||
48 | Williams College | 15 | |||
48 | Binghamton University | 15 |
Economics
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
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1 | University of California, Berkeley | 75 | 1 | Pomona College | 19 |
2 | University of Chicago | 70 | 2 | Swarthmore College | 18 |
3 | Harvard University | 54 | 3 | University of Chicago | 70 |
4 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 52 | 4 | Williams College | 20 |
5 | Stanford University | 45 | 5 | Soka University of America | 4 |
6 | University of Michigan | 34 | 6 | Carleton College | 16 |
7 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 34 | 7 | Claremont McKenna College | 10 |
8 | Yale University | 33 | 8 | Colby College | 15 |
9 | Princeton University | 29 | 9 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 34 |
10 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 27 | 10 | California Institute of Technology | 7 |
11 | University of Pennsylvania | 25 | 11 | Stanford University | 45 |
12 | University of California, Los Angeles | 24 | 12 | Wellesley College | 15 |
13 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 24 | 13 | Yale University | 33 |
14 | Cornell University | 24 | 14 | Macalester College | 12 |
15 | Columbia University | 23 | 15 | Harvard University | 54 |
16 | Georgetown University | 22 | 16 | Whitman College | 8 |
17 | New York University | 21 | 17 | Reed College | 8 |
18 | Brown University | 21 | 18 | Princeton University | 29 |
19 | University of Colorado Boulder | 20 | 19 | Grinnell College | 9 |
19 | Williams College | 20 | 20 | New College of Florida | 4 |
19 | Duke University | 20 | 21 | Lake Forest College | 7 |
19 | Michigan State University | 20 | 22 | Davidson College | 8 |
19 | University of California, San Diego | 20 | 23 | Oberlin College | 11 |
24 | University of Washington | 19 | 24 | Brandeis University | 14 |
24 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 19 | 25 | Haverford College | 5 |
24 | University of Maryland, College Park | 19 | 26 | Amherst College | 7 |
24 | Pomona College | 19 | 27 | Mount Holyoke College | 8 |
28 | Washington University in St. Louis | 18 | 28 | Wabash College | 3 |
28 | Swarthmore College | 18 | 29 | Dartmouth College | 15 |
28 | The University of Texas at Austin | 18 | 30 | Hendrix College | 4 |
31 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 16 | 31 | Middlebury College | 8 |
31 | Carleton College | 16 | 32 | Agnes Scott College | 3 |
33 | Ohio State University | 15 | 33 | Duke University | 20 |
33 | George Washington University | 15 | 34 | Rhodes College | 6 |
33 | Wellesley College | 15 | 35 | Brown University | 21 |
33 | George Mason University | 15 | 36 | Illinois Wesleyan University | 5 |
33 | Dartmouth College | 15 | 37 | Georgetown University | 22 |
33 | Indiana University Bloomington | 15 | 38 | Columbia University | 23 |
33 | University of Kansas | 15 | 39 | Southwestern University | 4 |
33 | Colby College | 15 | 40 | Washington and Lee University | 5 |
41 | Vanderbilt University | 14 | 41 | Bates College | 5 |
41 | Arizona State University | 14 | 42 | Vassar College | 6 |
41 | Brandeis University | 14 | 43 | University of California, Berkeley | 75 |
44 | University of Georgia | 13 | 44 | Colgate University | 7 |
44 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 13 | 45 | Beloit College | 3 |
44 | Boston University | 13 | 46 | Westmont College | 3 |
44 | Miami University | 13 | 47 | Washington University in St. Louis | 18 |
44 | University of Notre Dame | 13 | 48 | Rice University | 9 |
44 | Boston College | 13 | 49 | Knox College | 3 |
44 | University of Florida | 13 | 50 | Bryn Mawr College | 3 |
Education
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
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1 | University of Florida | 185 | 1 | Spelman College | 43 |
2 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 176 | 2 | St. John's College | 7 |
3 | The University of Texas at Austin | 157 | 3 | Earlham College | 15 |
4 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 156 | 4 | Macalester College | 29 |
5 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 147 | 5 | Smith College | 31 |
6 | University of Michigan | 145 | 6 | Transylvania University | 12 |
6 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 145 | 7 | Wellesley College | 30 |
8 | Ohio State University | 141 | 8 | Bryn Mawr College | 16 |
9 | University of California, Los Angeles | 139 | 9 | Swarthmore College | 18 |
10 | Michigan State University | 138 | 10 | Agnes Scott College | 11 |
11 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 133 | 11 | Claremont McKenna College | 14 |
12 | University of Georgia | 128 | 12 | Mount Holyoke College | 23 |
13 | Florida State University | 126 | 13 | Haverford College | 13 |
14 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 120 | 14 | Carleton College | 20 |
15 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 111 | 15 | Scripps College | 10 |
16 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 110 | 16 | Oberlin College | 26 |
17 | University of California, Berkeley | 107 | 17 | Wabash College | 8 |
18 | Auburn University | 103 | 18 | Berea College | 15 |
19 | Indiana University Bloomington | 100 | 19 | Pomona College | 14 |
19 | Mississippi State University | 100 | 20 | Williams College | 18 |
21 | University of Arizona | 99 | 21 | Colorado College | 18 |
22 | University of South Florida | 92 | 22 | Pitzer College | 9 |
23 | University of Maryland, College Park | 89 | 23 | Southwestern University | 12 |
24 | Miami University | 87 | 24 | Wesleyan University | 25 |
25 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 84 | 25 | Vanderbilt University | 56 |
26 | University of Missouri-Columbia | 83 | 26 | Morehouse College | 18 |
27 | Ohio University | 81 | 27 | Whitman College | 12 |
28 | Arizona State University | 80 | 28 | Connecticut College | 15 |
28 | Purdue University | 80 | 29 | Kenyon College | 14 |
30 | Bowling Green State University | 78 | 30 | Furman University | 22 |
30 | University of Alabama | 78 | 31 | Cornell College | 8 |
30 | University of South Carolina | 78 | 32 | Vassar College | 19 |
33 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 77 | 33 | Ohio Wesleyan University | 12 |
33 | University of Iowa | 77 | 34 | Centre College | 11 |
35 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 75 | 35 | Davidson College | 14 |
35 | Louisiana State University | 75 | 36 | College of William and Mary | 48 |
37 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 74 | 37 | McDaniel College | 12 |
38 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 73 | 38 | Barnard College | 19 |
38 | University of Washington | 73 | 39 | St Olaf College | 22 |
40 | University of Kansas | 69 | 40 | Northwestern University | 62 |
40 | University of Oklahoma | 69 | 41 | Illinois Wesleyan University | 12 |
40 | University of Memphis | 69 | 42 | Howard University | 44 |
43 | University of California, Davis | 68 | 43 | Grinnell College | 12 |
43 | Oklahoma State University | 68 | 44 | Brown University | 49 |
43 | University of North Texas | 68 | 45 | Bard College | 13 |
46 | James Madison University | 67 | 46 | Truman State University | 38 |
47 | New York University | 66 | 47 | Trinity University | 17 |
47 | Central Michigan University | 66 | 48 | Dickinson College | 16 |
49 | North Carolina State University | 64 | 49 | Hope College | 21 |
50 | Iowa State University | 63 | 50 | Wheaton College | 16 |
Engineering
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
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1 | University of California, Berkeley | 1 | California Institute of Technology | 151 |
2 | University of Michigan | 2 | Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering | 48 |
3 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 3 | Harvey Mudd College | 79 |
4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 376 |
5 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 5 | Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | 58 |
6 | University of Florida | 6 | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 86 |
7 | Purdue University | 7 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 233 |
8 | Cornell University | 8 | Johns Hopkins University | 209 |
9 | The University of Texas at Austin | 9 | Rice University | 120 |
10 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 10 | Clarkson University | 92 |
11 | University of Maryland, College Park | 11 | Case Western Reserve University | 156 |
12 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 12 | Carnegie Mellon University | 159 |
13 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 13 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 382 |
14 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 14 | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | 33 |
15 | North Carolina State University | 15 | Lehigh University | 110 |
16 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 16 | Cornell University | 328 |
17 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 17 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 100 |
18 | Ohio State University | 18 | Colorado School of Mines | 105 |
19 | Johns Hopkins University | 19 | Lafayette College | 56 |
20 | Iowa State University | 20 | Michigan Technological University | 119 |
21 | University of California, Los Angeles | 21 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 58 |
22 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 22 | Duke University | 126 |
23 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 23 | Princeton University | 100 |
24 | University of Washington | 24 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 125 |
25 | University of California, San Diego | 25 | Swarthmore College | 27 |
26 | Carnegie Mellon University | 26 | University of Rochester | 99 |
27 | Case Western Reserve University | 27 | Stanford University | 107 |
28 | Clemson University | 28 | Vanderbilt University | 103 |
29 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 29 | Kettering University | 28 |
30 | California Institute of Technology | 30 | Tufts University | 83 |
31 | Arizona State University | 31 | Bucknell University | 51 |
32 | University of Pittsburgh | 32 | United States Air Force Academy | 59 |
33 | University of California, Davis | 33 | United States Military Academy | 62 |
34 | Oregon State University | 34 | University of California, Berkeley | 413 |
35 | University of Colorado Boulder | 35 | Columbia University | 106 |
36 | University of Arizona | 36 | University of Notre Dame | 110 |
37 | Duke University | 37 | Milwaukee School of Engineering | 33 |
38 | Missouri University of Science and Technology | 38 | University of Michigan | 384 |
39 | Michigan State University | 39 | Northwestern University | 109 |
40 | Boston University | 40 | Washington University in St. Louis | 94 |
41 | Rice University | 41 | Florida Institute of Technology | 44 |
42 | Michigan Technological University | 42 | Dartmouth College | 51 |
43 | Drexel University | 43 | Brown University | 79 |
44 | University of Delaware | 44 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 365 |
45 | University of California, Irvine | 45 | Purdue University | 357 |
46 | University of Utah | 46 | Carleton College | 22 |
47 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 47 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 175 |
48 | Lehigh University | 48 | University of Florida | 360 |
49 | University of Notre Dame | 49 | University of Tulsa | 33 |
50 | Northwestern University | 50 | University of Pennsylvania | 108 |
Foreign Language
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | University of California, Berkeley | 37 | 1 | St. John's College | 3 |
2 | University of Chicago | 34 | 2 | Bryn Mawr College | 7 |
3 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 26 | 3 | University of Chicago | 34 |
4 | University of California, Los Angeles | 25 | 4 | Grinnell College | 7 |
5 | University of Michigan | 23 | 5 | Reed College | 6 |
6 | University of Colorado Boulder | 18 | 6 | Oberlin College | 11 |
6 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 18 | 7 | Middlebury College | 10 |
6 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 18 | 8 | Dartmouth College | 17 |
9 | Dartmouth College | 17 | 9 | New College of Florida | 3 |
9 | New York University | 17 | 10 | Macalester College | 8 |
11 | Harvard University | 16 | 11 | Carleton College | 7 |
12 | Columbia University | 15 | 12 | Davidson College | 6 |
12 | Brown University | 15 | 13 | Amherst College | 6 |
14 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 14 | 14 | Smith College | 8 |
14 | Yale University | 14 | 15 | Bard College | 6 |
14 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 14 | 16 | St. John's College | 1 |
14 | College of William and Mary | 14 | 17 | Haverford College | 4 |
18 | Indiana University Bloomington | 13 | 18 | Scripps College | 3 |
18 | Washington University in St. Louis | 13 | 19 | Vassar College | 7 |
18 | University of California, Riverside | 13 | 20 | Sarah Lawrence College | 4 |
21 | Boston University | 12 | 21 | Centre College | 4 |
21 | University of Notre Dame | 12 | 22 | Barnard College | 7 |
21 | University of Arizona | 12 | 23 | Bates College | 5 |
21 | Ohio State University | 12 | 24 | Bennington College | 2 |
21 | University of Georgia | 12 | 25 | Whitman College | 4 |
21 | University of Florida | 12 | 26 | Swarthmore College | 4 |
27 | Oberlin College | 11 | 27 | Hendrix College | 3 |
27 | The University of Texas at Austin | 11 | 28 | Williams College | 5 |
27 | University of California, Irvine | 11 | 29 | Colorado College | 5 |
27 | University of New Mexico | 11 | 30 | Yale University | 14 |
27 | Princeton University | 11 | 31 | Austin College | 3 |
27 | University of Kansas | 11 | 32 | Wesleyan University | 7 |
33 | University of Washington | 10 | 33 | Kenyon College | 4 |
33 | Miami University | 10 | 34 | Mount Holyoke College | 5 |
33 | Middlebury College | 10 | 35 | College of William and Mary | 14 |
33 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 10 | 36 | Furman University | 6 |
33 | Johns Hopkins University | 10 | 37 | Brown University | 15 |
33 | University of Iowa | 10 | 38 | Occidental College | 4 |
39 | Georgetown University | 9 | 39 | Lawrence University | 3 |
39 | CUNY Hunter College | 9 | 40 | Kalamazoo College | 3 |
39 | Arizona State University | 9 | 41 | University of Dallas | 3 |
39 | University of Pennsylvania | 9 | 42 | Princeton University | 11 |
39 | Florida International University | 9 | 43 | Saint Mary's College | 3 |
39 | University of Oregon | 9 | 44 | Colby College | 4 |
45 | Smith College | 8 | 45 | Wellesley College | 5 |
45 | Cornell University | 8 | 46 | University of Minnesota-Morris | 3 |
45 | George Washington University | 8 | 47 | Pomona College | 3 |
45 | Binghamton University | 8 | 48 | Earlham College | 2 |
45 | Macalester College | 8 | 49 | Columbia University | 15 |
45 | College of Charleston | 8 | 50 | Whittier College | 3 |
History
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | University of California, Berkeley | 74 | 1 | Vassar College | 31 |
2 | Yale University | 68 | 2 | Williams College | 25 |
3 | Harvard University | 61 | 3 | Swarthmore College | 18 |
4 | University of Chicago | 55 | 4 | Yale University | 68 |
5 | University of California, Los Angeles | 55 | 5 | Reed College | 16 |
6 | Columbia University | 44 | 6 | Amherst College | 18 |
7 | Brown University | 42 | 7 | Wesleyan University | 29 |
8 | College of William and Mary | 39 | 8 | St. John's College (NM) | 3 |
9 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 38 | 9 | Barnard College | 23 |
10 | University of Michigan | 38 | 10 | Grinnell College | 15 |
11 | New York University | 37 | 11 | Carleton College | 18 |
12 | Princeton University | 37 | 12 | University of Chicago | 55 |
13 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 32 | 13 | `` | 14 |
14 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 31 | 14 | Wheaton College | 18 |
14 | Vassar College | 31 | 15 | Pomona College | 11 |
16 | Wesleyan University | 29 | 16 | Princeton University | 37 |
17 | University of Pennsylvania | 28 | 17 | Macalester College | 14 |
17 | Dartmouth College | 28 | 18 | Dartmouth College | 28 |
17 | Florida State University | 28 | 19 | St. John's College (MD) | 3 |
20 | Cornell University | 27 | 20 | Harvard University | 61 |
21 | Georgetown University | 26 | 21 | College of William and Mary | 39 |
21 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 26 | 22 | Smith College | 15 |
23 | Washington University in St. Louis | 25 | 23 | Brown University | 42 |
23 | The University of Texas at Austin | 25 | 24 | Middlebury College | 15 |
23 | Northwestern University | 25 | 25 | Beloit College | 7 |
23 | University of California, San Diego | 25 | 26 | Columbia University | 44 |
23 | Williams College | 25 | 27 | Bard College | 10 |
28 | University of Colorado Boulder | 24 | 28 | Bryn Mawr College | 7 |
29 | Barnard College | 23 | 29 | Oberlin College | 14 |
30 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 22 | 30 | Willamette University | 9 |
30 | University of California, Davis | 22 | 31 | New College of Florida | 4 |
30 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 22 | 32 | Bowdoin College | 9 |
30 | Stanford University | 22 | 33 | Centre College | 7 |
30 | University of Notre Dame | 22 | 34 | Colorado College | 10 |
35 | Michigan State University | 21 | 35 | Haverford College | 6 |
35 | University of Arizona | 21 | 36 | Mount Holyoke College | 10 |
35 | University of Florida | 21 | 37 | Sarah Lawrence College | 6 |
38 | University of Washington | 20 | 38 | Brandeis University | 15 |
38 | San Francisco State University | 20 | 39 | Colby College | 8 |
38 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 20 | 40 | Wellesley College | 10 |
38 | Indiana University Bloomington | 20 | 41 | Washington and Lee University | 7 |
42 | Duke University | 19 | 42 | Earlham College | 4 |
42 | Boston University | 19 | 43 | Davidson College | 7 |
42 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 19 | 44 | Claremont McKenna College | 5 |
45 | Amherst College | 18 | 45 | Georgetown University | 26 |
45 | Wheaton College | 18 | 46 | Lafayette College | 9 |
45 | University of California, Irvine | 18 | 47 | Lewis & Clark College | 7 |
45 | Arizona State University | 18 | 48 | Hendrix College | 4 |
45 | Swarthmore College | 18 | 49 | United States Military Academy | 15 |
45 | Ohio State University | 18 | 50 | Connecticut College | 6 |
Mathematics & Statistics
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | University of California, Berkeley | 105 | 1 | California Institute of Technology | 56 |
2 | Princeton University | 82 | 2 | Harvey Mudd College | 40 |
3 | University of Chicago | 76 | 3 | Princeton University | 82 |
4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 69 | 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 69 |
5 | Harvard University | 57 | 5 | Swarthmore College | 22 |
6 | California Institute of Technology | 56 | 6 | Pomona College | 19 |
7 | University of California, Los Angeles | 50 | 7 | Reed College | 17 |
8 | University of Michigan | 49 | 8 | University of Chicago | 76 |
9 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 48 | 9 | Williams College | 21 |
10 | University of California, San Diego | 42 | 10 | St. John's College | 3 |
11 | Stanford University | 41 | 11 | Haverford College | 12 |
11 | Columbia University | 41 | 12 | Carleton College | 19 |
11 | The University of Texas at Austin | 41 | 13 | New College of Florida | 7 |
14 | Harvey Mudd College | 40 | 14 | Grinnell College | 14 |
15 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 35 | 15 | Scripps College | 8 |
16 | Cornell University | 34 | 16 | Transylvania University | 7 |
17 | Arizona State University | 33 | 17 | Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | 6 |
18 | Stony Brook University | 32 | 18 | St Olaf College | 20 |
18 | University of Washington | 32 | 19 | Rice University | 24 |
20 | Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo | 31 | 20 | Stanford University | 41 |
20 | Carnegie Mellon University | 31 | 21 | Harvard University | 57 |
22 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 30 | 22 | Wabash College | 5 |
22 | Brown University | 30 | 23 | Bowdoin College | 10 |
24 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 29 | 24 | Wheaton College | 13 |
24 | New York University | 29 | 25 | Columbia University | 41 |
26 | University of Arizona | 28 | 26 | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 10 |
26 | University of Maryland, College Park | 28 | 27 | Carnegie Mellon University | 31 |
26 | Ohio State University | 28 | 28 | Willamette University | 8 |
26 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 28 | 29 | Bryn Mawr College | 6 |
26 | North Carolina State University | 28 | 30 | Bates College | 8 |
31 | University of California, Davis | 26 | 31 | Wellesley College | 11 |
32 | University of Rochester | 25 | 32 | Dartmouth College | 19 |
33 | University of Florida | 24 | 33 | Brown University | 30 |
33 | Yale University | 24 | 34 | University of Dallas | 6 |
33 | Rice University | 24 | 35 | Whitman College | 6 |
33 | Northwestern University | 24 | 36 | Kenyon College | 7 |
37 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 23 | 37 | Yale University | 24 |
37 | University of Pennsylvania | 23 | 38 | Hamilton College | 8 |
37 | Duke University | 23 | 39 | University of Rochester | 25 |
37 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 23 | 40 | Amherst College | 7 |
37 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 23 | 41 | Bard College | 7 |
42 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 22 | 42 | Oberlin College | 10 |
42 | Washington University in St. Louis | 22 | 43 | Clarkson University | 11 |
42 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 22 | 44 | Ursinus College | 5 |
42 | Swarthmore College | 22 | 45 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 23 |
42 | University of Central Florida | 22 | 46 | Duke University | 23 |
42 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 22 | 47 | Lafayette College | 9 |
42 | University of Houston | 22 | 48 | University of California, Berkeley | 105 |
49 | University of Colorado Boulder | 21 | 49 | University of Minnesota-Morris | 5 |
49 | Williams College | 21 | 50 | St. Mary's College of Maryland | 5 |
Physics
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | University of California, Berkeley | 186 | 1 | California Institute of Technology | 91 |
2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 148 | 2 | Harvey Mudd College | 41 |
3 | Cornell University | 125 | 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 148 |
4 | California Institute of Technology | 91 | 4 | Reed College | 36 |
5 | University of Michigan | 89 | 5 | Haverford College | 26 |
6 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 88 | 6 | Swarthmore College | 29 |
7 | University of Chicago | 78 | 7 | Carleton College | 27 |
8 | University of California, Los Angeles | 73 | 8 | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | 18 |
9 | University of Rochester | 69 | 9 | Grinnell College | 21 |
10 | University of Arizona | 65 | 10 | University of Chicago | 78 |
10 | Harvard University | 65 | 11 | Princeton University | 61 |
12 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 64 | 12 | University of Rochester | 69 |
13 | University of Washington | 63 | 13 | St. John's College | 5 |
14 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 63 | 14 | Pomona College | 14 |
15 | Princeton University | 61 | 15 | Kenyon College | 15 |
16 | University of Florida | 60 | 16 | Cornell University | 125 |
17 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 58 | 17 | Williams College | 17 |
18 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 57 | 18 | Rice University | 32 |
18 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 57 | 19 | Yale University | 46 |
20 | University of Maryland, College Park | 55 | 20 | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | 16 |
21 | The University of Texas at Austin | 54 | 21 | Colorado School of Mines | 38 |
21 | University of Colorado Boulder | 54 | 22 | Florida Institute of Technology | 28 |
23 | Columbia University | 53 | 23 | Carnegie Mellon University | 50 |
24 | Ohio State University | 52 | 24 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 50 |
24 | Michigan State University | 52 | 25 | Lawrence University | 11 |
26 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 50 | 26 | Case Western Reserve University | 38 |
26 | Carnegie Mellon University | 50 | 27 | Franklin and Marshall College | 16 |
28 | Boston University | 49 | 28 | Harvard University | 65 |
29 | University of California, Davis | 48 | 29 | Columbia University | 53 |
29 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 48 | 30 | Stanford University | 45 |
31 | Yale University | 46 | 31 | University of California, Berkeley | 186 |
32 | Stanford University | 45 | 32 | Bowdoin College | 11 |
32 | University of California, San Diego | 45 | 33 | Amherst College | 11 |
34 | Purdue University | 45 | 34 | Wesleyan University | 17 |
35 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 43 | 35 | Juniata College | 8 |
36 | Harvey Mudd College | 41 | 36 | Colby College | 11 |
37 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 38 | 37 | Illinois Institute of Technology | 16 |
37 | Colorado School of Mines | 38 | 38 | Bryn Mawr College | 7 |
37 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 38 | 39 | Brown University | 36 |
38 | Case Western Reserve University | 38 | 40 | Allegheny College | 9 |
41 | Brown University | 36 | 41 | Hendrix College | 6 |
41 | Reed College | 36 | 42 | Dartmouth College | 22 |
41 | North Carolina State University | 36 | 43 | Whitman College | 7 |
44 | University of Notre Dame | 33 | 44 | Wabash College | 4 |
44 | University of Pennsylvania | 33 | 45 | Gettysburg College | 11 |
44 | University of California, Irvine | 33 | 46 | Ohio Wesleyan University | 7 |
44 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 33 | 47 | Oberlin College | 12 |
48 | Rice University | 32 | 48 | Middlebury College | 11 |
49 | Rochester Institute of Technology | 31 | 49 | Kalamazoo College | 6 |
49 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 31 | 50 | University of Dallas | 6 |
Political Science & Government
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Harvard University | 44 | 1 | St. John's College (MD) | 7 |
2 | University of Chicago | 41 | 2 | St. John's College (NM) | 4 |
3 | University of California, Berkeley | 39 | 3 | Swarthmore College | 16 |
4 | University of California, Los Angeles | 34 | 4 | Grinnell College | 13 |
5 | University of Michigan | 34 | 5 | Soka University of America | 3 |
6 | Stanford University | 31 | 6 | Williams College | 13 |
7 | Yale University | 28 | 7 | University of Chicago | 41 |
8 | The University of Texas at Austin | 27 | 8 | Kenyon College | 10 |
8 | New York University | 27 | 9 | Wesleyan University | 16 |
10 | Georgetown University | 25 | 10 | Smith College | 13 |
10 | Cornell University | 25 | 11 | Macalester College | 11 |
10 | University of Washington | 25 | 12 | Washington and Lee University | 9 |
13 | Brown University | 24 | 13 | Reed College | 7 |
13 | University of California, San Diego | 24 | 14 | Yale University | 28 |
13 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 24 | 15 | Haverford College | 6 |
16 | University of Pennsylvania | 21 | 16 | Pomona College | 7 |
17 | University of Maryland, College Park | 20 | 17 | Harvard University | 44 |
17 | Columbia University | 20 | 18 | Stanford University | 31 |
17 | University of Notre Dame | 20 | 19 | Dartmouth College | 19 |
17 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 20 | 20 | University of Dallas | 6 |
17 | Duke University | 20 | 21 | Carleton College | 8 |
17 | University of Florida | 20 | 22 | Claremont McKenna College | 5 |
23 | Dartmouth College | 19 | 23 | Brown University | 24 |
23 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 19 | 24 | Georgetown University | 25 |
23 | Northwestern University | 19 | 25 | Princeton University | 18 |
26 | College of William and Mary | 18 | 26 | Bowdoin College | 6 |
26 | George Washington University | 18 | 27 | Vassar College | 8 |
26 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 18 | 28 | Davidson College | 6 |
26 | Princeton University | 18 | 29 | United States Air Force Academy | 14 |
30 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 17 | 30 | Wellesley College | 8 |
30 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 17 | 31 | Transylvania University | 3 |
32 | Wesleyan University | 16 | 32 | Duke University | 20 |
32 | Swarthmore College | 16 | 33 | Wheaton College | 7 |
32 | Emory University | 16 | 34 | Furman University | 8 |
35 | Baylor University | 15 | 35 | Oberlin College | 8 |
35 | Arizona State University | 15 | 36 | College of William and Mary | 18 |
35 | Ohio State University | 15 | 37 | Pitzer College | 3 |
35 | Michigan State University | 15 | 38 | Brandeis University | 10 |
39 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 14 | 39 | Union College | 6 |
39 | University of Colorado Boulder | 14 | 40 | Amherst College | 5 |
39 | Boston College | 14 | 41 | Bard College | 5 |
39 | Florida State University | 14 | 42 | United States Military Academy | 12 |
39 | United States Air Force Academy | 14 | 43 | Occidental College | 5 |
39 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 14 | 44 | Colby College | 5 |
45 | Louisiana State University | 13 | 45 | Rhodes College | 5 |
45 | Grinnell College | 13 | 46 | New College of Florida | 2 |
45 | Indiana University Bloomington | 13 | 47 | Columbia University | 20 |
45 | Smith College | 13 | 48 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 11 |
45 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 13 | 49 | Beloit College | 3 |
45 | Williams College | 13 | 50 | University of Notre Dame | 20 |
Psychology
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | University of Michigan | 177 | 1 | Vassar College | 55 |
2 | University of California, Berkeley | 166 | 2 | Barnard College | 51 |
3 | University of Florida | 164 | 3 | Spelman College | 42 |
4 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 158 | 4 | Wellesley College | 49 |
5 | New York University | 156 | 5 | Williams College | 40 |
6 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 154 | 6 | Wesleyan University | 56 |
7 | University of California, San Diego | 152 | 7 | Smith College | 46 |
8 | University of California, Los Angeles | 141 | 8 | Haverford College | 23 |
9 | The University of Texas at Austin | 127 | 9 | Reed College | 25 |
10 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 121 | 10 | Swarthmore College | 25 |
11 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 119 | 11 | Hendrix College | 19 |
12 | Cornell University | 115 | 12 | Carleton College | 33 |
12 | University of California, Irvine | 115 | 13 | Pomona College | 24 |
14 | University of Maryland, College Park | 113 | 14 | Grinnell College | 26 |
15 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 111 | 15 | Tufts University | 79 |
16 | Michigan State University | 105 | 16 | Southwestern University | 20 |
17 | University of California, Davis | 102 | 17 | Brandeis University | 48 |
18 | Florida State University | 100 | 18 | Dartmouth College | 58 |
19 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 99 | 19 | Whitman College | 19 |
20 | Ohio State University | 97 | 20 | Kenyon College | 22 |
21 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 93 | 21 | New College of Florida | 10 |
22 | Boston University | 92 | 22 | Connecticut College | 22 |
23 | University of Pennsylvania | 87 | 23 | Bryn Mawr College | 16 |
24 | University of Arizona | 85 | 24 | Trinity University | 29 |
25 | Harvard University | 85 | 25 | Scripps College | 12 |
26 | Northwestern University | 83 | 26 | University of Rochester | 74 |
27 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 81 | 27 | Yale University | 66 |
27 | Arizona State University | 81 | 28 | Emory University | 78 |
29 | University of Central Florida | 80 | 29 | Amherst College | 20 |
29 | University of Pittsburgh | 80 | 30 | Brown University | 75 |
31 | Tufts University | 79 | 31 | Claremont McKenna College | 14 |
32 | Emory University | 78 | 32 | St. John's College | 5 |
33 | University of Georgia | 77 | 33 | Knox College | 14 |
34 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 76 | 34 | Furman University | 29 |
34 | University of Washington | 76 | 35 | Wheaton College | 25 |
36 | Brown University | 75 | 36 | Duke University | 69 |
36 | University of Colorado Boulder | 75 | 37 | Kalamazoo College | 15 |
36 | Washington University in St. Louis | 75 | 38 | Macalester College | 22 |
39 | University of Rochester | 74 | 39 | Rhodes College | 20 |
40 | Indiana University Bloomington | 72 | 40 | Bates College | 18 |
41 | San Diego State University | 71 | 41 | Middlebury College | 25 |
41 | Rutgers University-New Brunswick | 71 | 42 | Washington University in St. Louis | 75 |
43 | Duke University | 69 | 43 | St. Mary's College of Maryland | 15 |
44 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 68 | 44 | Northwestern University | 83 |
45 | University of Miami | 66 | 45 | St Olaf College | 29 |
45 | Yale University | 66 | 46 | Mount Holyoke College | 21 |
45 | University of Notre Dame | 66 | 47 | Austin College | 12 |
48 | Miami University | 65 | 48 | Davidson College | 17 |
49 | University of Kansas | 63 | 49 | Skidmore College | 24 |
50 | University of South Florida | 62 | 50 | Bucknell University | 33 |
Sociology
Rank (Total) | Institution (Total) | #PhD (Total) | Rank (Adjusted) | Institution (Adjusted) | #PhD (Adjusted) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | University of California, Berkeley | 49 | 1 | Beloit College | 9 |
2 | University of Michigan | 33 | 2 | Swarthmore College | 10 |
3 | University of Chicago | 31 | 3 | New College of Florida | 5 |
4 | University of California, Los Angeles | 27 | 4 | Wesleyan University | 18 |
4 | The University of Texas at Austin | 27 | 5 | Grinnell College | 10 |
6 | Cornell University | 24 | 6 | Smith College | 14 |
7 | Columbia University | 23 | 7 | Wellesley College | 12 |
7 | Harvard University | 23 | 8 | University of Chicago | 31 |
7 | Michigan State University | 23 | 9 | Bryn Mawr College | 6 |
10 | Northwestern University | 22 | 10 | Vassar College | 10 |
10 | Stanford University | 22 | 11 | Whitman College | 6 |
10 | New York University | 22 | 12 | Reed College | 6 |
10 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 22 | 13 | Oberlin College | 11 |
14 | Brown University | 21 | 14 | Carleton College | 8 |
15 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | 20 | 15 | Amherst College | 7 |
16 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 19 | 16 | Kenyon College | 6 |
17 | University of Georgia | 18 | 17 | Rice University | 13 |
17 | Wesleyan University | 18 | 18 | Spelman College | 7 |
19 | University of California, Irvine | 17 | 19 | Stanford University | 22 |
19 | Indiana University Bloomington | 17 | 20 | Knox College | 4 |
19 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 17 | 21 | Drew University | 5 |
22 | University of Central Florida | 16 | 22 | Brown University | 21 |
22 | Emory University | 16 | 23 | Wheaton College | 7 |
22 | University of Washington | 16 | 24 | Colorado College | 6 |
22 | University of California, San Diego | 16 | 25 | Columbia University | 23 |
26 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 15 | 26 | Southwestern University | 4 |
26 | Boston University | 15 | 27 | DePauw University | 6 |
26 | University of California, Davis | 15 | 28 | Saint Mary's College | 4 |
26 | Ohio University | 15 | 29 | Clark University | 6 |
26 | Florida State University | 15 | 30 | Northwestern University | 22 |
31 | University of Utah | 14 | 31 | Pomona College | 4 |
31 | Smith College | 14 | 32 | Denison University | 6 |
31 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 14 | 33 | Princeton University | 13 |
31 | University of Pennsylvania | 14 | 34 | Soka University of America | 1 |
31 | University of Notre Dame | 14 | 35 | Harvard University | 23 |
31 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities | 14 | 36 | Tufts University | 13 |
31 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 14 | 37 | Haverford College | 3 |
31 | Texas A & M University-College Station | 14 | 38 | Emory University | 16 |
39 | Tufts University | 13 | 39 | Yale University | 13 |
39 | University of Kansas | 13 | 40 | Davidson College | 4 |
39 | Yale University | 13 | 41 | Furman University | 6 |
39 | Duke University | 13 | 42 | Sarah Lawrence College | 3 |
39 | Princeton University | 13 | 43 | Occidental College | 4 |
39 | Brigham Young University-Provo | 13 | 44 | Agnes Scott College | 2 |
39 | Rice University | 13 | 45 | Hamilton College | 4 |
46 | Wellesley College | 12 | 46 | Rhodes College | 4 |
46 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | 12 | 47 | John Carroll University | 6 |
46 | University of Southern California | 12 | 48 | Duke University | 13 |
46 | Boston College | 12 | 49 | Earlham College | 2 |
46 | University of Florida | 12 | 50 | Scripps College | 2 |
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