Baccalaureate Origins of U.S. Research Doctorate Recipients

Baccalaureate education can play a significant role in influencing the higher education of research doctorate recipients. Despite most doctoral students per capita in the United States earning research doctorates from institutions in the Carnegie Classification group R1 : doctoral universities or foreign institutions, more graduates from Carnegie class of baccalaureate colleges : arts and sciences focus than their peers at other Carnegie class of institutions earn a doctoral degree in science and engineering ( S&E ) . Using institutional-yield ratio and doctoral-yield ratio, this InfoBrief examines the top baccalaureate-origin institutions of research doctorate recipients in S&E and non-S&E fields over the past decade.
Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources - Category: Statistics Source Type: news