The Graduate School
Doctorate Recipients from United States Universities:
Summary Report 2005
July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005
This report was produced by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago and was funded by and conducted under the direction of the following agencies of the U.S. government:
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Institutes of Health
- U.S. Department of Education
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
This information is taken from the 2005 Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), an annual census of new doctorate recipients. Complete report can be found at the NORC Education and Career Outcomes of Doctorate Recipients Web site.
- Among the 2005 top 20 doctorate-granting institutions,
The University of Texas at Austin is #2.
- Among 2001-2005 U.S. leading doctorate-granting institutions, The University
of Texas at Austin is:
#3 in Hispanic Ph.D. recipients
#9 in Native American Ph.D. recipients
#12 in African American Ph.D. recipients
#16 in Asian Ph.D. recipients
- Among the 2005 top 20 doctorate-granting institutions by broad field
of study, The University of Texas at Austin is:
#1 in Humanities
#2 in Other Fields
#2 in Social Sciences
#5 in Education
#9 in Engineering
#9 in Physical Sciences (including mathematics and computer sciences)