More Caltech bragging rights: patents and PhDs

Guess which university completely dominates all others in patents issued, when normalized to the size of institution? My graduating class was 186 -- compare to MIT (about 1000) and Stanford (about 1600).

2005 USPTO university patent rankings:

1) 10 campuses of the University of California System, 390 patents
2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 136 patents
3) California Institute of Technology, 101 patents
4) Stanford University and the University of Texas, each with 90 patents each.

For Nobel prize domination, see here.

For ranking by percentage of undergraduates going on to complete a PhD, see here and here. (I think I saw this on Dave Bacon's blog a while ago.) Caltech leads with about 50% of all undergrads going on to earn a doctorate. Reed College, MIT, Harvey Mudd, Swarthmore, etc. all do pretty well. Interestingly, Yale does well in the humanities, but Harvard is not to be found on any of the lists. That makes their kids the smartest of all, as they probably go directly to Goldman Sachs or hedge funds with no wasted time :-)

To be honest, graduate school seemed a lot easier than undergrad for me. A typical load at Caltech might be 5 technical courses and 1 humanities-social science course - for example, 3 physics classes, a math class, a CS class, and, for relaxation, something like history or economics ;-) In grad school 3 physics classes at the same time was a typical load.