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Berkeley awarded most doctorates in 2002
Berkeley awarded 799 doctorates in 2002, more than any other
single 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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