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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1. St. John's College (Annapolis, MD)
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2. Reed College (Portland, OR)
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3. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
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4. Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
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5. Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
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6. Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
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7. St. John's College (Santa Fe, NM)
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8. Yale University (New Haven, CT)
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9. Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, CA)
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10. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
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11. Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY)
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12. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
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13. Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
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14. The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
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15. Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
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16. Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
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17. Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
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18. Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
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19. Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
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20. Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
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21. Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
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22. University of Dallas (Irving, TX)
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23. Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
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24. Smith College (Northampton, MA)
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25. Brown University (Providence, RI)
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Source: Sources: Baccalaureate Origins of Earned Doctoral Degrees (2003-2012) compiled by the Office of Institutional Research, Pomona College in July 2015 (https://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/bacorigins_2003-2012.pdf). Data available from National Science Foundation through WebCASPAR (https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/webcaspar/). Two surveys were used to compile these statistics: the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates (http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctorates/) and the IPEDS Completions Survey coordinated by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/). The data were retrieved by the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium.
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