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Ph.D. Productivity
Baccalaureate Origins of Doctorate Degrees
Outranking many prominent schools, Kalamazoo College ranks 13th among the nation's four-year liberal arts colleges for the percentage of graduates who go on to earn doctorate degrees. Kalamazoo College is the only Michigan college or university among the top 25 institutions nationally.
These findings come from the latest report issued by Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Consortium. Kalamazoo's 14th place ranking is based on the proportion of students going on to earn doctorate degrees from 1997 to 2006. Among colleges and universities, Kalamazoo ranks 21st in PhD production.
Kalamazoo College is ranked among the top 50 for all institutions in thirteen specific fields:
| Foreign Language | 6th |
| Biology | 7th |
| Chemistry | 9th |
| English & Literature | 16th |
| Physical Sciences | 17th |
| Economics | 18th |
| Psychology | 20th |
| Humanities | 25th |
| Mathematics & Computer Science | 26th |
| Physics | 27th |
| History | 31st |
| Sociology | 32nd |
| Social Sciences | 46th |
From the 2010 Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Study based on data from the National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates.
Weighted Rank
Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities,
All Disciplines, 1997-2006
| California Institute of Technology | 1 |
| Harvey Mudd College | 2 |
| Reed College | 3 |
| Swarthmore College | 4 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 5 |
| Carleton College | 6 |
| Grinnell College | 7 |
| Bryn Mawr College | 8 |
| University of Chicago | 9 |
| Oberlin College | 10 |
| Harvard University | 11 |
| Princeton University | 12 |
| Yale University | 13 |
| Haverford College | 14 |
| Pomona College | 15 |
| St. John's College (MD) | 16 |
| Rice University | 17 |
| Williams College | 18 |
| Amherst College | 19 |
| Wesleyan University | 20 |
| Kalamazoo College | 21 |
| Stanford University | 22 |
| Brown University | 23 |
| Wellesley College | 24 |
| Macalester College | 25 |
| Earlham College | 26 |
| Hampshire College | 27 |
| Simons Rock College of Bard | 28 |
| Lawrence University | 29 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 30 |
| Vassar College | 31 |
| Beloit College | 32 |
| New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology | 33 |
| Cornell University | 34 |
| Trinity University (TX) | 35 |
| Bowdoin College | 36 |
| Duke University | 37 |
| Columbia University | 38 |
| Smith College | 39 |
| Case Western Reserve University | 40 |
| Hendrix College | 41 |
| Mount Holyoke College | 42 |
| St. John's College (NM) | 43 |
| College of William and Mary | 44 |
| Dartmouth College | 45 |
