Harvey Mudd College is a national leader in science and engineering Ph.Ds, according to its website and the National Science Foundation. Here's the quotation in question.
A new report by the National Science Foundation (NSF) lists Harvey Mudd College (HMC) as the leader among private baccalaureate colleges in the U.S. in the percentage of graduates who go on to earn Ph.D. degrees in science and engineering.We knew this was coming after the mighty Thomas Sowell has written about how great HMC is at producing good physics PhD students in his book, Economic Facts and Fallacies. I mentioned Sowell's admiration for HMC here.
I must confess that I have wiki envy. I know, I know, you don't admit such things in public, but there you have it and I've noticed something. While HMC is producing lots of graduate students, I have to wonder if maybe what they ought to be focusing on is some good, old fashioned entrepreneurship like their founder, geologist and miner, Harvey Mudd once did.
Naw, they are too concerned with Bill Nye's doomsday predictions to invent the next Google.
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Somewhere on the web is a post from a physics professor at a Midwestern university discouraging physics grads from going on to get PhDs: they're a glut on the market.
Professor Mead of CalTech analyzed the problem some time ago. You only really need a PhD to teach at the grad school level. So if each physics professor produced one PhD over the course of his career the population would be replaced. Any more and you have overproduction, as we do now.
It would be better if some of the HMC physics students could be diverted engineering of one sort or another and encouraged to be entrepreneurs.
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