Baccalaureate Origins of Doctorate Degrees
Outranking many prominent schools, Kalamazoo College ranks 17th among the nations four-year liberal arts colleges for
the percentage of graduates who earn doctoral degrees in all fields. Kalamazoo College is the only Michigan College or University among the top 20 institutions nationally.
The findings come from the latest report issues by Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS), a nationally recognized research authority. Kalamazoo's 17th place ranking is based on the proportion of students going on to earn PhDs from 1995 to 2004. Among all colleges and universities, regardless of size or type, Kalamazoo ranks 24th in PhD production.
Kalamazoo College is ranked among the top 40 for all institutions in twelve specific fields:
| Foreign Languages |
3rd |
| Life Sciences |
6th |
| Chemistry |
34th |
| Physical Sciences |
30th |
| Economics |
30th |
| Humanities |
25th |
| History |
35th |
| English |
26th |
| Linguistics |
35th |
| Mathematics and Computer Science |
31st |
| Mathematics and Statistics |
34th |
| Anthropology |
34th |
|
Weighted Rank
Liberal Arts Colleges and Ivy League Schools,
All Disciplines, 1995-2004
Harvey Mudd College |
1 |
Swarthmore College |
2 |
Reed College |
3 |
Carleton College |
4 |
Oberlin College |
5 |
Bryn Mawr College |
6 |
Grinnell College |
7 |
Yale University |
8 |
Princeton University |
9 |
Haverford College |
10 |
Pomona College |
11 |
Amherst College |
12 |
Harvard University |
13 |
St. John's College (MD) |
14 |
Williams College |
15 |
Wesleyan University |
16 |
Kalamazoo College |
17 |
Wellesley University |
18 |
Brown University |
19 |
Earlham College |
20 |
Macaster College |
21 |
Lawrence University |
22 |
Beloit College |
23 |
St. John's College (NM) |
24 |
Vassar College |
25 |
| Hendrix College |
26 |
| Mount Holyoke College |
27 |
| Bowdoin College |
28 |
| Smith College |
29 |
| Trinity University |
30 |
source:Higher Education Data Sharing (HEDS) Consortium, 2008 |