Table 3. Top 50 doctorate-granting institutions, ranked by number of doctorate recipients: 2016
Rank |
Institution |
Doctorate recipients |
1 |
U. Texas, Austin |
849 |
2 |
U. Wisconsin-Madison |
823 |
3 |
U. Michigan, Ann Arbor |
819 |
4 |
U. California, Berkeley |
796 |
5 |
U. Minnesota, Twin Cities |
787 |
6 |
Stanford U. |
763 |
7 |
U. Florida |
730 |
8 |
Purdue U., West Lafayette |
727 |
9 |
Ohio State U., Columbus |
716 |
10 |
U. California, Los Angeles |
689 |
11 |
Texas A&M U., College Station and Health Science Center |
684 |
12 |
Pennsylvania State U., University Park and Hershey Medical Center |
680 |
13 |
U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
678 |
14 |
Harvard U. |
677 |
15 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
646 |
16 |
Walden U. |
635 |
17 |
U. Washington, Seattle |
615 |
18 |
U. Maryland, College Park |
546 |
19 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
531 |
20 |
U. California, San Diego |
521 |
21 |
U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
510 |
22 |
Michigan State U. |
503 |
23 |
U. California, Davis |
501 |
24 |
Columbia U. in the City of New York |
500 |
25 |
Cornell U. |
492 |
26 |
U. Southern California |
491 |
27 |
New York U. |
483 |
28 |
North Carolina State U. |
482 |
29 |
Johns Hopkins U. |
476 |
30 |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U. |
472 |
31 |
U. Pennsylvania |
464 |
32 |
U. Georgia |
455 |
33 |
Northwestern U. |
454 |
34 |
U. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh |
447 |
35 |
U. Arizona |
436 |
36 |
CUNY, Graduate Center |
431 |
37 |
Rutgers, State U. New Jersey, New Brunswick |
416 |
38 |
Arizona State U. |
411 |
39 |
Duke U. |
408 |
40 |
Yale U. |
407 |
41 |
Indiana U., Bloomington |
405 |
42 |
U. Colorado Boulder |
400 |
43 |
U. Chicago |
395 |
44 |
U. California, Irvine |
393 |
45 |
Boston U. |
385 |
46 |
Princeton U. |
373 |
47 |
U. Iowa |
369 |
48 |
Florida State U. |
362 |
49 |
SUNY, U. Buffalo |
335 |
49 |
U. Tennessee, Knoxville |
335 |