<p>OK, I can’t figure out how to use it. Anyone willing to help me get started?</p>
<p>You should post this question in the Grad School Forum. Click on “Discussion Home” in the upper-left of this screen, and then scroll down to find it. The folks there will be able to help you.</p>
<p>What do you mean by “PhD productivity”? The number of PhDs awarded in various disciplines?</p>
<p>You can look up one school at a time on IPEDS College Navigator:
[College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/]College”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics)
Click on “majors”.</p>
<p>Or, you can create data files or display tables for lots of schools at once using the IPEDS Data Center:
[IPEDS</a> Data Center](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/]IPEDS”>Use The Data)</p>
<p>The latter is complicated to use and you may need further explanation.</p>
<p>
I think that was the point of the question.</p>
<p>PHD production as refined by collegehelp? … or PHD production by college for those who graduate with baccalaureates, ie, feeder schools to doctoral programs?</p>
<p>Sounds like the former because of t’OP’s name and his/her looking for specific programs that offer doctoral programs in his/her specific field of interest.</p>
<p>The former is easy…just go to IPEDS and type in the college of interest, click on the hyperlink of college listed, expand the degrees listed or expand all fields,08-09, I think is the latest, and look in the middle or righ hand-columns where the grad degrees are listed.</p>
<p>I don’t know how completely accurate this would be. I’ll cross-check with some UC schools some time with Statfinder.</p>
<p>Here’s an example using [url=<a href=“College Navigator - Search Results”>College Navigator - University of California-Santa Barbara]UCSB[/url</a>], under the “College Navigator” offering.</p>
<p>Just expand all fields and go down where degrees are listed for bac, masters, doctoral, certificates</p>
<p>There have been some posts for colleges and the percentage of grads later obtaining PhD’s in various disciplines. That’s what I’m interested in.</p>
<p>ETA: Yes, PhD feeder schools.</p>
<p>^ I’m not sure if that data is on IPEDS. The NSF has some for STEM fields.</p>
<p>TABLE 3. Top 50 baccalaureate-origin institutions of 1997–2006 S&E doctorate recipients, by institutional control
and 2005 Carnegie classification
Rank Academic institution 2005 Carnegie classification S&E doctorates </p>
<p>na All baccalaureate-origin institutions na 282,091
na Foreign institutions na 87,836
na Unknown institutions na 28,280
1 University of California-Berkeley Research-very high 3,199
2 Cornell University, all campuses Research-very high 2,536
3 University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Research-very high 2,181
4 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research-very high 2,057
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research-very high 1,867
6 Pennsylvania State University, main campus Research-very high 1,817
7 Harvard University Research-very high 1,775
8 University of Wisconsin-Madison Research-very high 1,721
9 University of Texas at Austin Research-very high 1,700
10 University of California-Los Angeles Research-very high 1,674
11 University of California-Davis Research-very high 1,499
12 University of California-San Diego Research-very high 1,441
13 University of Florida Research-very high 1,382
14 Brigham Young University, main campus Research-high 1,368
15 Stanford University Research-very high 1,351
16 Texas A&M University, main campus Research-very high 1,351
17 Purdue University, main campus Research-very high 1,211
18 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Research-very high 1,210
19 Rutgers the State University of New Jersey New Brunswick Research-very high 1,205
20 University of Virginia, main campus Research-very high 1,201
21 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Research-very high 1,179
22 Michigan State University Research-very high 1,147
23 Princeton University Research-very high 1,135
24 University of Washington-Seattle Research-very high 1,117
25 Ohio State University, main campus Research-very high 1,115
26 University of Pennsylvania Research-very high 1,097
27 University of Maryland at College Park Research-very high 1,089
28 Yale University Research-very high 1,087
29 Brown University Research-very high 1,076
30 Duke University Research-very high 1,050
31 University of Colorado at Boulder Research-very high 1,009
32 University of Arizona Research-very high 967
33 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Research-very high 940
34 University of California-Santa Cruz Research-very high 892
35 University of Chicago Research-very high 873
36 University of California-Santa Barbara Research-very high 846
37 Northwestern University Research-very high 807
38 University of California-Irvine Research-very high 795
39 North Carolina State University at Raleigh Research-very high 790
40 Boston University Research-very high 782
41 Iowa State University Research-very high 776
42 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Research-very high 772
43 Indiana University at Bloomington Research-very high 765
44 Georgia Institute of Technology, main campus Research-very high 758
45 California Institute of Technology Research-very high 713
46 SUNY at Buffalo Research-very high 708
47 College of William and Mary Research-high 698
48 Johns Hopkins University Research-very high 691
49 Columbia University in the City of New York Research-very high 690
50 University of Notre Dame Research-very high 683
na = not applicable. </p>
<p>NOTE: Institutions with the same number of doctorate recipients are listed alphabetically. </p>
<p>SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates.</p>
<p>In which fields are you interested. There is older data in a book called “Baccalureate Origins of Doctoral Recipients”. There is more up to date data that I have in a spreadsheet on one of my computers somewhere. It is organized by academic field.</p>
<p>Political science and history. (I know poli sci/govt was posted here on CC before, but for some reason it only went to about #30. I haven’t seen it for history).</p>
<p>… because I was wondering how to do a search on that if it wasn’t readily available…</p>
<p>% of PHD completions by Baccalaureate Conferring Institutions… Political Science or History…2000-2008 … </p>
<p>or, </p>
<p>% of Political Science/History PHD completions based on total baccalaureate degrees conferred per institution, 2000-2008, … </p>
<p>or,</p>
<p>% total of baccalaureate origins of all political science PHDs conferred, 2000- 2008</p>
<p>““% of Political Science/History PHD completions based on total baccalaureate degrees conferred per institution, 2000-2008,” …”</p>
<p>The denominator you want probably isn’t total baccalaureate degrees conferred.<br>
What you probably really want as a denominator is # grads of comparable academic capabilities who wanted doctorates in political science or history. </p>
<p>Failing that, as a fallback you might in a pinch use # grads majoring in political science or history. Though this will already be quite flawed, as many grads choose other outcomes such as law, which in no way necessarily makes that department inferior if your goal is to get a Phd.</p>
<p>The problem with using all undergrads as a denominator, aside from above, is that universities can be quite diverse and may have different programs besides liberal arts, with more varied student objectives, and may have drastically different proportions of students who would ever consider getting a history Phd in the first place. For example, a university may have many students in engineering colleges, nursing colleges, etc, from which virtually nobody goes on to a history phd. If you are in that university’s arts & sciences college, studying history, your training towards an eventual history phd has nothing to do with those other people. But by your measure all those irrelevant people would be in your denominator. so when you compare that school on a % basis to another institution that is soley a liberal arts college with a more homogeneous student body, you will show % figures that may be misleading towards the character of training you can receive at the diverse institution. IMO. Even looking at liberal arts colleges by themselves, they may vary quite a bit in what % there get history degrees, vs. biology degrees, etc, this does not make their history department bad necessarily. </p>
<p>Another point is that some schools have more diverse student capabilities than others, yet # 9 above indicates that those students at the more diverse institutions who are academically strong enough are not necessarily held back by the mere presence of others who aren’t.</p>
<p>If multiple hundreds, and even thousands, of people are getting phds after studying at a particular institution, evidently the program there is of a nature as to support such objective. Even if many other students at that same institution do not have this same objective or aptitude.</p>
<p>Another thing you might prefer to do is have the numerator be “top 10” phD programs in each field, not just a phD from anywhere. Since, from what I understand, not all PhDs are created equal in terms of subsequent opportunities. Or perhaps, use as the numerator new tenure track hires, rather than phd recipients.</p>
<p>“…1997–2006 S&E doctorate recipients…”</p>
<p>what does “S&E” mean??? If that’s Science & engineering it’s a bit off-point.</p>
<p>It’s hard to refine a search based on things that might be relevant to the OP. </p>
<p>Yes, S&E means Science and Engineering. Barrons was just giving an example, prior to when the OP gave details of his/her PHD program search.</p>
<p>I’d be interested in seeing the number of PhD grads in the fields per 1000 graduates. Many of these disciplines have been posted in the past, but I haven’t seen history and the list was shorter for poli sci (only about 30 schools).</p>