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Study Shows that 10% of Earlham Earlham is among 25 "Select Colleges" playing "a critical part in feeding undergraduates into the pipeline of future history PhDs," according to a study based on 40 years of data from the National Center for Education Statistics (Robert B. Townsend, "Privileging History: Trends in the Undergraduate Origins of History PhDs," Perspectives (September 2005), p. 14). The Select 25 group comprised schools "which conferred the highest proportion of baccalaureate degrees among new history PhDs relative to the actual number of history bachelor's degrees they had conferred" (16). Much larger institutions such as the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins, Stanford and Yale universities were among the Select 25 as were such other peer schools as Carleton, Grinnell, Kalamazoo, Lawrence, Macalester, Oberlin and Reed colleges. Earlham ranked 16th of the 25 schools based on the proportion of its history graduates who earned Ph.D.s. Earlham's 16th place rank was the result of graduating 162 history majors, 17 of whom, or 10%, earned Ph.D.s. The study concludes by pointing out that history Ph.D.-earning graduates of the Select 25 institutions have an advantage in finding full-time employment at academic institutions. |
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Earlham
College · 801 National Road West · Richmond,
Indiana 47374-4095 |