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Harvard, Yale, and Princeton all rank in the top 25 for institutions producing the most PhD recipients from undergraduate origins on a size adjusted basis. Harvard and Princeton more than Stanford.

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So what? Of course H/Y/P has a high throughput into PhD programs. They have a bunch of rich kids with no need to get a job and make money anytime soon. That doesn't mean anything at all. And that's nothing against PhDs, either, since I have one myself. I can understand wanting to do it because it's fun. But you can't hold that up as some sort of argument in this particular discussion.

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Harvard has the second highest number of recipients with a Physics Nobel laureate of any college or university world-wide, and the most in Chemistry and Physiology/Medicine. It also has the greatest number of recipients of the Fields Medal for math and 4th for the Turing in CS. Princeton is known for its world class physics and math departments, with the 4th highest number of Field medalist recipients. Yale admittedly isn't in the same tier as H/P/S for STEM excellence, but it's easily in the top 20 universities worldwide. 
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Of course they have a high number of award recipients. They're long-standing institutions. Once again, that doesn't mean anything. And it certainly doesn't mean anything in the context of 'modern' STEM fields, as I had (perhaps incorrectly) interpreted the OP's question to be about. 
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