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Hampshire's interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to education produces remarkable results:
Half of Hampshire alums go on to achieve advanced degrees and 1 in 7 holds a Ph.D. or terminal degree in her or his field.
Hampshire College is also among the top 50 schools whose graduates went on to receive a Ph.D. in science or engineering, according to a 2008 report by the National Science Foundation.
The following tables show Hampshire's ranking by the percentage of graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. in selected disciplines compared to that of various other colleges and universities.
| Ranking by the percentage of graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. | ||
| All Disciplines |
Life Sciences |
Women in Life Science |
| Caltech-1st | Caltech-1st | Caltech-2nd |
| University of Chicago-10th | University of Chicago-7th | MIT-4th |
| Yale University-13th | MIT-10th | University of Chicago-7th |
| Wesleyan University-20th | Harvard University-12th | Rice University-8th |
| Stanford University-26th | Princeton University-14th | Princeton University-9th |
| Hampshire College-30th | Rice University-16th | Hampshire College-17th |
| Brown University-31st | Yale University-17th | Harvard University-24th |
| Smith College-39th | Hampshire College-19th | Stanford University-25th |
| Duke University-46th | Stanford University-28th | Mt. Holyoke College-29th |
| Dartmouth College-49th | Brown University-34th | Yale University-38th |
| Humanities |
History | Area and Ethnic Studies* |
| Reed College-1st | Hampshire College-1st | Wells College-1st |
| Amherst College-2nd | Reed College-2nd | Wesleyan University-2nd |
| St. John’s College-3rd | Yale University-3rd | Bryn Mawr College-3rd |
| Yale University-4th | Bryn Mawr-4th | Hampshire College-4th |
| Hampshire College-8th | Wesleyan University-5th | Yale University-5th |
| University of Chicago-16th | University of Chicago-10th | Amherst College-6th |
| Princeton University-17th | Princeton University-12th | Carleton College-9th |
| Harvard University-18th | Harvard University-16th | Oberlin College-10th |
| Columbia University-24th | Columbia University-17th | Harvard University-12th |
| Brown University-25th | Brown University-19th | Brown University-13th |
| Social Sciences |
Sociology |
Anthropology |
| Princeton University-11th | Swarthmore College-2nd | Bryn Mawr College-1st |
| Stanford University-19th | Wesleyan University-5th | Harvard University-10th |
| Brown University-20th | Oberlin College-6th | University of Chicago-14th |
| Smith College-24th | Haverford College-8th | Dartmouth College-15th |
| Dartmouth College-28th | University of Chicago-13th | Princeton University-16th |
| Columbia University-31st | Hampshire College-16th | Brown University-17th |
| Hampshire College-36th | Brown University-20th | Hampshire College-20th |
| Brandeis University-38th | Smith College-25th | Yale University-23rd |
| Georgetown University-46th | Harvard University-32nd | Stanford University-25th |
| UC Berkeley-47th | Princeton University-40th | Columbia University-29th |
According to the national Weighted Baccalaureate Origins Report showing the baccalaureate origins of people granted Ph.D.s from 2000 to 2004. *1995-2000
Institutions where the largest numbers of Hampshire graduates have earned higher degrees (in decreasing order of frequency):
| Columbia University University of Massachusetts/Amherst New York University Harvard University Yale University Boston University University of California/Berkeley |
Cornell University Smith College University of California/Los Angeles University of Pennsylvania Massachusetts Institute of Technology Northeastern University |
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