Doctoral data and Nova Southeastern

The University of Chicago issued its annual report on doctoral statistics (http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/studies/sed/sed1999.htm).

41,140 doctorates in 1999, the first decline in total in 14 years. The only private university in the top 50 is Nova Southeastern, which was 9th, with 573 doctorates. They offer a number of short-residency doctoral programs.

More than 50% of Nova Southeastern doctorates went to African-Americans -- and Nova alone represented 12% of all doctorates to African Americans (total: 2,386 doctorates from 392 institutions.). Niche marketing, it would seem.

Other numbers that caught my attention in the report:

49% of doctorate earners earned it in a field other than their Bachelor's.

Average age: 34. Average time since Bachelor's: 10 1/2 years.

John Bear

 

What I found most interesting is the large gender disparity among African Americans getting doctorates. Not really suprising since the African American doctorates are disproportionately in education, but interesting nevertheless. I wonder if that explains the same disparity among Native Americans and Hispanics....well, I guess I'll be up late reading this report....

-dave

 

Okay, the original post didn't make that clear.

Bruce

 

While I'm on, I thought I'd share the most interesting fact I learned from reading the survey (page 133 for those keeping score)

I never realized that the abbreviation

PhD

stands for "Doctor of Philosoph"
(funny me, I spent all those years of grad school asking "why?", when I should have been asking "y?")