Top producers of PhDs in engineering

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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:33:34 +0000

This is a ranking of the top 20 baccalaureate schools of PhDs in engineering.

This information is from the NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates 1995-2006 and from IPEDS. I divided the number of PhDs from a particular baccalaureate school by the number of bachelors degrees awarded by that school in the same fields (engineering). I think this is a more valid way to “normalize” PhD production.

The number of bachelors degrees is the total over three years 2002-2004 in engineering. These were the earliest available from the IPEDS website. I thought a three-year total would be more reliable than a one-year snapshot.

Other methods divide by total undergraduate enrollment. When you divide by total undergraduate enrollment schools are penalized if they have large numbers of undergrads in other fields.

I limited the schools to roughly the top 100 US News universities and top 100 LACs plus the SUNY schools, some additional tech schools, and a few schools that are not top 100 in US News but which produce large numbers of PhDs.

Schools that don’t grant bachelors in engineering were excluded. NYU grants degrees in Operations Research.

school, PhDs produced in engineering 1995-2006, bachelors degrees granted 2002-2004 in same fields, ratio

1 HARVARD UNIVERSITY 90 65 1.385
2 CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 265 279 0.950
3 SWARTHMORE COLLEGE 51 65 0.785
4 BROWN UNIVERSITY 145 215 0.674
5 MASSACHUSETTS INST. OF TECHNOLOGY 842 1405 0.599
6 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 17 32 0.531
7 YALE UNIVERSITY 74 147 0.503
8 HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE 85 175 0.486
9 PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 251 544 0.461
10 STANFORD UNIVERSITY 254 595 0.427
11 RICE UNIVERSITY 170 403 0.422
12 SUNY COLL OF ENVIRON SCI & FORESTRY 10 26 0.385
13 DUKE UNIVERSITY 224 624 0.359
14 MIAMI UNIVERSITY-OXFORD 33 93 0.355
15 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER 123 352 0.349
16 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 63 184 0.342
17 UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 185 578 0.320
18 CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY 308 971 0.317
19 UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE 177 578 0.306
20 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 556 1874 0.297