More on Where Doctoral Candidates Come From
Posted on July 17th, 2008
I blogged on Tuesday about a new piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the recently released 2006 Survey of Earned Doctorates. It took a couple of days, but I got my own copy of the tables on Baccalaureate-Origin that show where a doctoral candidate earned their undergraduate degree. I can’t figure how the people at the Chronicle arrived at their conclusions. As I read the numbers, Tsinghua U. and Beijing U. are first and second - which is what the Chronicle said. But Berkeley ranked third, Seoul National University ranked 4th, and Cornell ranked fifth. (The Chronicle placed Seoul NU third, Cornell fourth and Berkeley fifth. A spot at the top of this list is a mark of prestige for major accredited universities. It says that their undergraduate programs produce students who can go on. For a list of the top 50 institutions whose undergraduate alumni went on to earn doctorates in 2006, click "read more" under the picture… 
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