Foreign Universities Turn out Talented Students!

Source: "U.S. GRADUATE TRAINING: Top Ph.D. Feeder Schools Are Now Chinese" by Jeffrey Mervis
Science 11 July 2008: Vol. 321. no. 5886, p. 185.

The five universities whose graduates won the most Ph.D's in the United States in 2006 were in decreasing order of number of doctorates:

• Tsinghua University (China)
• Peking University (China)
• University of California, Berkeley
• Seoul National University (South Korea)
• Cornell University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Of course, in interpreting this information one must look at the size of the university (some smaller schools may have a higher percentage of graduates go on to PhD's) and the selectivity of the universities in enrolling undergraduates.