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From page 94... ... Analogous descriptors for institutions of baccalaureate origin of PhD's could also be derived. • For convenient reference to the detailed tables of institutional characteristics, an alphabetical list of PhD institutions is provided in Table 44, with rank orders of institutional size in terms of numbers of graduates -- male, female, and total. Read the entire page →
From page 95... ... 4 Earth sciences 24 24 37 38 39 38 50 59 74 96 121 Engineering 19 24 32 37 37 49 63 75 97 127 151 Life sciences 42 57 65 70 74 81 99 122 144 178 224 Psychology 28 31 43 46 49 53 77 88 112 149 183 Social sciences 30 45 51 54 58 63 79 92 104 128 166 Humanities and professions 41 53 64 71 77 85 96 113 134 172 212 Education 34 44 53 58 60 67 86 99 116 138 173 TOTAL 61 75 87 102 107 126 142 171 208 244 307 SOURCE: NRC, Commission on Human Resources. GROWTH IN NUMBER OF PhD-GRANTING SCHOOLS1 Table 39 shows the number of institutions of higher education in the United States that have granted doctorate degrees in various fields, by 5-year time periods since 1924. Read the entire page →
From page 96... ... In the most recent period, however, it appears that the growth in number of institutions granting PhD's in chemistry has slackened somewhat, while the number of schools granting doctorates in the life sciences has continued to boom. The fourth curve in Figure 58 is that for schools granting psychology doctorates, and this curve, too, has a positive acceleration. Read the entire page →
From page 97... ... 97 100.000 50.000 g 10.000 > uS K o 5.000 1,000 500 200 The institutions more recently entering the PhDgranting category show high rates of increase in number of PhD's awarded 1920 1930 1940 1950 YEAR 1960 1970 SOURCE: NRC. Commission on Human Resources FIGURE 60 Doctorates granted by institutional groups. Read the entire page →
From page 98... ... Prior to 1920 Although still paramount, the "early bird" institutions provide a decreasing proportion of the new PhD's Institutions Beginning PhD Production in the 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 SOURCE: NRC, Commission on Human Resources FIGURE 61 Varying institutional shares in doctorates granted. Read the entire page →
From page 99... ... Committion on Human RMOIMCM FIGURE 62 Doctorates granted in four geographic areas. TABLE 41 DOCTORATE OUTPUT BY CENSUS REGION BY 5-YEAR PERIODS, 1920-1974 Region 19201924 19251929 19301934 19351939 19401944 19451949 19501954 19551959 19601964 19651969 19701974 Total New England N 741 1,116 1,742 1,973 1,849 2,127 4,322 4,625 6,207 9,704 13,611 48,017 % 17.6 14.4 14.5 14.4 12.6 13.4 11.2 10.5 10.1 8.9 8.2 9.9 Middle N 1,182 2,106 3,293 3,718 3,950 4,167 9,576 10,433 13,008 20,312 29,627 101,372 Atlantic 1 28.1 27.2 27.5 27.1 26.8 26.2 24.8 23.6 21.2 18.6 17.9 20.8 East North N 1,191 2,199 3,237 3,557 4,124 4,363 10,549 11,559 15,941 25,455 37,855 120,030 Central % 28.4 28.4 27.0 26.0 28.0 27.4 27.3 26.1 26.0 23.3 22.8 24.6 West North N 314 749 1,244 1,501 1,588 1,525 3,841 4,041 5,556 9,343 13,743 43,445 Central % 7.5 9.7 10.4 11.0 10.8 9.6 9.9 9.1 9.1 8.6 8.3 8.9 South • 458 791 1,139 1,202 1,280 1,216 2,932 3,830 5,501 11,502 . Read the entire page →
From page 100... ... The South (East and West South Central and Southern South Atlantic) The 1940's The Half Decade of Ihe 1970 s / Midwest Northeast The 1950's The West The The Northeast Midwest The South The Northeast SOURCE: NRC, Commmion on Human Resources FIGURE 63 Diagrams of PhD growth in four geographic areas. Read the entire page →
From page 101... ... South Region 5 Southern portion of South Atlantic region: Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Region 6 East South Central States: Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi. Read the entire page →
From page 103... ... .2528 fcO of Z ifl O «J «/) Read the entire page →
From page 104... ... Of the total, 26.1 percent took doctorates in the EMP fields; 38.1 percent in the life or behavioral science fields; 19.6 percent in the humanities; 3.5 percent in the professions; and 12.6 percent in education. Data on baccalaureate-to-doctorate time lapse shows that in the EMP fields the men took, on the average, 7.2 years, and the women, 7.1 years. Read the entire page →
From page 105... ... 86 11. 12 17 Time lapse, humanities. Read the entire page →
From page 106... ... And yet, even granting » influence of field mix, the attitude or orio tion in the graduate schools with respect to post-PhD careers must vary greatly in order to produce such widely varying norms as those shown here. AN ALPHABETICAL LIST From statistical data about institutional characteristics to numerical data about individual institutions is but a step. Read the entire page →
From page 109... ... 109 TABLE 44 Continued Male Female Both Sexes Male Female Both Sexes TEX U HLTH SCI-S ANT 12 Z70 5 223 17 267 WASHINGTON STATE U 1787 66 119 96 1906 73 TEX U HTH SCI-DALLAS 29 239 11 194 40 239 WASHINGTON UNIV/MO 2046 59 375 49 2421 58 TEXAS WOMANS UNIV 2 302 319 93 321 149 WASHINGTON, U OF 5055 27 648 31 5703 27 THOMAS JEFFRSON U/PA 40 228 7 209 47 229 WAYNE STATE UNIV/MI 2105 57 479 39 2584 55 T JEF U-JEF MED C/PA 96 191 18 178 114 192 WESLEYAN UNIV/CT 57 214 9 204 66 215 TOLEDO, UNIV OF/OH 208 161 44 146 252 160 WEST VIRGINIA UNIV 971 96 115 104 1086 96 TUFTS UNIVERSITY/MA 492 125 119 96 611 125 WSTRN CONS BAPT S/OR 1 308 1 310 TULANE U OF LA 1406 79' 299 60 1705 77 WESTERN MICHIGAN U 155 174 20 173 175 174 TULSA, UNIV OF/OK 189 167 51 140 240 164 WESTMINSTR THEO S/PA 13 266 13 277 UNION THEOL SEM/NY 71 203 10 199 81 205 WICHITA ST UNIV/KS 6 290 1 262 7 292 UNION THEOL SEM/VA 11 275 11 283 WILLIAM I MARY, C/VA 67 207 8 209 75 209 UNION UNIVERSITY/NY 44 220 7 209 51 225 WISCONSIN,U- MADISON 14971 1 1958 4 16929 1 UNION-ALBANY MED/NY 12 270 1 262 13 277 WISCONSIN,U-MILWAUKE 117 185 19 176 136 181 U S INTERNATL U/CA 390 129 117 101 507 129 WOODSTOCK COLL/NY 22 249 22 259 UTAH, UNIV OF 2571 49 248 68 2819 51 WORCESTER POLY I/MA 103 190 3 239 1O6 194 UTAH STATE UNIV 827 99 47 141 874 105 WYOMING, UNIV OF 851 98 57 134 908 100 VANOERBILT UNIV/TN 1643 73 201 80 1844 74 YALE UNIVERSITY/CT 8037 13 1423 11 9460 13 VERMONT, U OF 195 166 21 170 216 168 YESHIVA UNIV/NY 562 119 154 89 716 117 VILLANOVA UNIV/PA 16 262 5 223 21 260 YESHIVA-EINST MED/NY 40 228 13 190 93 223 VA COMMONWEALTH UNIV 1 308 1 262 2 306 VA COMONWLTH U MED C 104 189 28 199 132 183 VA POLY INSTCSTATE U 1105 93 92 138 1157 95 VIRGINIA, UNIV OF 2593 47 309 98 2902 48 WAKE FOREST UNIV/NC 42 224 7 209 49 226 WAKE F-B GRAY MED/NC 1 308 1 310 •The word "rank," where used in this report, is used in the statistical sense of "order according to a statistical characteristic" (e.g., the number of doctorates granted) ; its use is not intended to imply degree of eminence or excellence. Read the entire page →
From page 110... ... UNIV OF 6 13319 686 887 292 1865 563 1781 4209 571 918 1489 334 243 37 2103 OHIO STATE UNIV 7 12167 522 1412 2 OS 2137 234 1155 1526 595 768 1363 228 603 1 2195 CHICAGO, UNIV OF/IL NEW YORK UNIVERSITY a 12061 11783 1060 586 363 126 2204 1126 m 2771 2230 748 696 1444 696 225 117 i 1670 820 9 414 579 385 311 3 4 CORNELL UNIV/NY 10 10953 838 989 126 1953 362 1049 3364 767 1370 2137 142 1335 12 3626 MINNESOTA.U-MINNEAPL 11 10931 298 859 147 1304 273 891 2468 986 814 1800 604 924 5 3333 STANFORD UN1V/CA 12 9487 520 562 393 1475 476 2081 4052 352 345 697 40 14 1 752 YALE UNIVERSITY/CT 9460 6587 723 293 861 518 227 122 1IW 254 170 489 2554 1103 513 436 329 949 679 177 63 143 1269 742 INDIANA U BLODMINGTON 350 PURDUE UNIVERSITY/IN 15 8345 364 1414 16 1794 342 1772 3908 626 484 1110 377 672 7 2166 MASS INST TeCHNOLOGY 16 8112 1183 1499 420 3102 520 3278 6900 2R3 79 362 14 15 391 MICHIGAN STATE JNIV 17 8084 197 535 74 806 201 468 1475 518 418 936 65 1065 6 2072 IOWA, UNIVERSITY OF CALIF, U-LOS ANGELES PENNSYLVANIA, U OF 1! 7696 7529 7492 199 412 399 702 492 670 147 272 10 104B 1 176 1079 196 357 243 390 743 726 1634 2276 2048 346 515 549 374 450 255 720 974 221 223 2 1 I 944 49 loll 804 4 TEXAS, U-AUST1N 21 7277 410 714 161 1285 305 854 2444 402 434 836 33 1 870 NORTHWESTERN UNIV/IL 22 6568 200 745 82 1027 176 961 2164 344 142 99 2 587 PENN STATE UNIV 23 6458 393 871 382 1646 154 687 2487 364 211 575 3 381 3 962 SOUTHERN CALIF, U OF COIUM81A-TCHRS C/NY \\ 6343 6026 95 198 57 350 •3 390 823 275 107 382 37 2 * Read the entire page →
From page 111... ... In Table 45A, the institutions' graduates are shown for the natural science fields; in Table 45B, the same data are shown for the behavioral sciences; the total of all sciences; the several nonscience fields, with subtotals; and the total for all sciences combined. Most of the institutions have too few PhD graduates to warrant this degree of detail; for the remaining schools a condensed set of fields is provided in Appendix B Read the entire page →
From page 113... ... A summary of the data regarding the graduate student recruitment patterns for the entire United States is given below and shown graphically in Figure 64. Other Other Other Reqion PhD School State in Outside Instiin Same in Same United United 1920-1959 tution State Region States States Males 20.7 14.8 11.5 44.5 8.7 Females 16.3 19.9 10.7 47.5 5.7 Total 20.1 15.4 11.4 44.8 8.3 1960-1974 Males 14.6 16.0 12.2 42.9 14.3 Females 13.0 21.1 11.5 44.0 10.4 Total 14.4 16.8 12.1 43.1 13.7 Examination of these data shows that there have been important changes over time, principally in the categories of foreign origins and of those earning baccalaureates and doctorates at the same institution. Read the entire page →
From page 114... ... ? 1361 18.8 2.4 797 2904 885 12.2 1.9 7246 59.6 2.2 12167 2.1 23.6 5.0 2.7 4:8 1:2 N - number; H - horizontal percentage; VI - percent of total males; V2 = percent of total females; V3 - percent of grand total. Read the entire page →
From page 115... ... 115 The growth ring ot PhD's granted since 1960 has come more largely from foreign baccalaureate sources, less Irom an institution's own BA's SOURCE: NRC, Commission on Human Resources FIGURE 64 Graduate student recruitment patterns in two time periods. Read the entire page →
From page 116... ... An Alphabetical List Essentially the same data as given in Appendix G are provided in Appendix H, but here the listing is alphabetical, to provide data on all the schools whose graduates eventually attained the doctorate degree. STATE AND REGIONAL DATA For comparison with PhD graduations, data providing state and regional baccalaureate origins figures by time period and by sex, for seven fields and the total of all fields, is shown in Appendix I Read the entire page →

From page 94...

... Analogous descriptors for institutions of baccalaureate origin of PhD's could also be derived. • For convenient reference to the detailed tables of institutional characteristics, an alphabetical list of PhD institutions is provided in Table 44, with rank orders of institutional size in terms of numbers of graduates -- male, female, and total.

Institutional Characteristics Pages 94-116

Institutional Characteristics
Pages 94-116