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 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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University	Number of alumni earning a doctorate in 2006
1. Tsinghau University	571
2. Beijing University	507
3. UC Berkeley	427
4. Seoul National University	393
5. Cornell	308
6. University of Michigan	272
7. University of Texas Austin	267
8. Brigham Young University	259
9. UCLA	248
10. University of Florida	243
10. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	243
12. Harvard	241
12. University of Wisconsin-Madison	241
14. Penn State	236
15. National Taiwan University	226
16. MIT	197
17. Yonsei University (Korea)	193
18. Rutgers	190
19. Ohio State	182
20. University of Virginia	180
21. UC Davis	177
22. Texas A&M	175
23. University of Minnesoa-Twin Cities	169
24. University of Maryland College Park	167
25. Stanford	166
26. Yale	164
27. Fudan University (China)	163
27. University of Science & Technology (China)	163
29. UC San Diego	162
30. Brown	161
31. Princeton	160
32. Michigan State	159
33. Nanking University (China)	155
34. University of Mumbai (India)	153
34. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	153
36. Virginia Tech	151
37. Indiana University - Bloomington	150
38. University of Azizona	148
38. UC Santa Cruz	148
40. Nankai University (China)	147
40. University of Washington - Seattle	147
42. Shanghai Jiaotong University (China)	144
43. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)	134
44. University of Pennsylvania	133
45. UC Santa Barbara	127
46. Duke	122
47. China University of Science & Technology Anhwei	120
48. Korea University	119
48. North Carolina State	119
48. University of Colorado - Boulder	119
48. Zhejiang University (China)	119