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Universities That Granted the Most Research Doctorates, Over All and by Field, FY 2016

By Chronicle Staff

July 29, 2018

Nine of the 10 universities that granted the most doctoral degrees in 2016 were public institutions. The only private institution in the top 10 was Stanford University. The most doctorates in a particular field were granted by the Georgia Institute of Technology, which awarded 324 research doctorates in engineering. The field in which the most doctorates were awarded was life sciences, followed by engineering and psychology.

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All

Rank	Institution	Doctorate recipients
1.	U. of Texas at Austin	849
2.	U. of Wisconsin at Madison	823
3.	U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor	819
4.	U. of California at Berkeley	796
5.	U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities	787
6.	Stanford U.	763
7.	U. of Florida	730
8.	Purdue U. at West Lafayette	727
9.	Ohio State U.	716
10.	U. of California at Los Angeles	689
11.	Texas A&M U. at College Station and Health Science Center	684
12.	Pennsylvania State U. at University Park and Hershey Medical Center	680
13.	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	678
14.	Harvard U.	677
15.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	646
16.	Walden U.	635
17.	U. of Washington	615
18.	U. of Maryland at College Park	546
19.	Georgia Institute of Technology	531
20.	U. of California at San Diego	521
21.	U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	510
22.	Michigan State U.	503
23.	U. of California at Davis	501
24.	Columbia U.	500
25.	Cornell U.	492
26.	U. of Southern California	491
27.	New York U.	483
28.	North Carolina State U.	482
29.	Johns Hopkins U.	476
30.	Virginia Tech	472
31.	U. of Pennsylvania	464
32.	U. of Georgia	455
33.	Northwestern U.	454
34.	U. of Pittsburgh main campus	447
35.	U. of Arizona	436
36.	City U. of New York Graduate Center	431
37.	Rutgers U. at New Brunswick	416
38.	Arizona State U.	411
39.	Duke U.	408
40.	Yale U.	407
41.	Indiana U. at Bloomington	405
42.	U. of Colorado at Boulder	400
43.	U. of Chicago	395
44.	U. of California at Irvine	393
45.	Boston U.	385
46.	Princeton U.	373
47.	U. of Iowa	369
48.	Florida State U.	362
49.	U. at Buffalo	335
49.	U. of Tennessee at Knoxville	335
	All 436 institutions	54,904

Education

Rank	Institution	Doctorate recipients
1.	Teachers College, Columbia U.	119
2.	U. of Georgia	101
3.	Walden U.	95
4.	Michigan State U.	84
5.	U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities	80
	All institutions	5,153

Engineering

Rank	Institution	Doctorate recipients
1.	Georgia Institute of Technology	324
2.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	279
3.	Purdue U. at West Lafayette	270
4.	Stanford U.	255
5.	U. of Texas at Austin	227
	All institutions	9,469

Humanities and arts

Rank	Institution	Doctorate recipients
1.	New York U.	140
2.	City U. of New York Graduate Center	115
3.	Columbia U.	113
4.	Harvard U.	111
5.	U. of Texas at Austin	110
	All institutions	5,484

Life sciences

Rank	Institution	Doctorate recipients
1.	U. of Wisconsin at Madison	246
2.	U. of Florida	241
3.	Johns Hopkins U.	227
4.	Harvard U.	218
5.	U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities	198
5.	U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	198
	All institutions	12,568

Mathematics and computer sciences

Rank	Institution	Doctorate recipients
1.	Carnegie Mellon U.	81
2.	North Carolina State U.	77
3.	Purdue U. at West Lafayette	69
3.	U. of California at Berkeley	69
3.	U. of Wisconsin at Madison	69
	All institutions	3,957

Physical sciences and earth sciences

Rank	Institution	Doctorate recipients
1.	U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor	131
2.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	127
3.	U. of Texas at Austin	114
4.	U. of California at Berkeley	111
5.	Stanford U.	102
	All institutions	6,252

Psychology and social sciences

Rank	Institution	Doctorate recipients
1.	Walden U.	229
2.	City U. of New York Graduate Center	152
3.	U. of Minnesota-Twin Cities	141
4.	U. of California at Berkeley	139
5.	Harvard U.	133
	All institutions	9,078

Note: Data cover the academic year from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2016. Of the 54,904 research doctorates awarded in the 2016 fiscal year, 98.1 percent were Ph.D.s, and 1.1 percent were Ed.D.s. Recipients of professional doctoral degrees like M.D., D.D.S., and J.D. were excluded. For rankings by field, the category “Other” was excluded. Tied institutions are listed alphabetically. More data can be found here. Questions or comments on the Chronicle List should be sent to Ruth Hammond.

Source: “Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2017,” by National Science Foundation and five other federal agencies