Where Humanities Ph.D.s Received Their Undergraduate Degrees

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1. St. John's College (Annapolis, MD)
2. Reed College (Portland, OR)

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3. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
4. Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
5. Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
6. Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
7. St. John's College (Santa Fe, NM)
8. Yale University (New Haven, CT)
9. Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, CA)
10. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

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11. Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY)
12. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
13. Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
14. The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

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15. Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
16. Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
17. Haverford College (Haverford, PA)

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18. Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
19. Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
20. Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
21. Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
22. University of Dallas (Irving, TX)

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23. Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
24. Smith College (Northampton, MA)
25. Brown University (Providence, RI)

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Source: Baccalaureate Origins of Earned Doctoral Degrees, Pomona College Office of Institutional Research, 2015

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Listed here are colleges ranked in order of the highest number of doctoral degrees per hundred B.A./B.S. degrees, signifying the success of the school in sending its graduates on to achieve doctorates in humanities. FYI, this list is from The College Finder, 2017 edition now available!

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