Berkeley awarded most doctorates in 2002

Berkeley awarded 799 doctorates in 2002, more than any other institution in the U.S., according to a report sponsored by six federal agencies and published in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Berkeley ranked fifth in granting engineering doctorates, behind MIT, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Stanford, but ranked first overall and in the broad fields of humanities and the physical and social sciences.

According to the report, only 39 percent of engineering doctorates went to U.S. citizens. Between 1997 and 2002, the total number of engineering doctorates awarded nationwide dropped by 17 percent, although at Berkeley the number increased slightly during the same period. The full report is available at www.norc.org/issues/docdata.htm.

In a separate report published in Black Issues in Higher Education, Berkeley tied for first place in granting doctorates to African American engineers, based on preliminary figures from the 2001-2002 academic year. Both Berkeley and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University graduated six black engineering doctorates. The full report is available on line at www.blackissues.com/Top1003.asp.

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