[Update 8/23/17: The tables below are now presented much more cleanly and neatly at this ASA webapge: http://www.amstat.org/asa/education/Statistics-and-Biostatistics-Degree-Data.aspx.]
[6/19/18 update: The updated tables for universities awarding PhD's in Statistics and Biostatistics from 2003-Most Recent Year (2017) can be found here:
[9/29/15 update: See the report of the 2014 data release in this Amstat News article and the accompanying blog entry. The reports include breakouts for biostatistics degrees, proportion of degrees awarded to women, links to tables, and lists of universities granting undergraduate and graduate degrees in statistics and biostatistics for 2003-2014. No changes were made to the blog entry below. See also the September 2014 Amstat News piece on the 2013 statistics degree data: Bachelor’s Degrees in Statistics Surge Another 20%.
3/24/15: For a more general perspective, see the Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences and the American Mathematical Society website.]
The tables below show the U.S. universities granting the most doctorate degrees over the last three years. The first table is for statistics and the second for biostatistics. The data are from NCES IPEDS.
For statistics programs, there are 67 universities that granted PhD's in the last three years; 31 for biostatistics.
See also the blog entry, Largest Master's Programs in Statistics and Biostatistics
|
Statistics Doctorate Degrees
|
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
Total |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh |
19 |
14 |
20 |
12 |
65 |
| Texas A & M University-College Station |
11 |
16 |
18 |
10 |
55 |
| Iowa State University |
13 |
14 |
9 |
15 |
51 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison |
12 |
13 |
9 |
13 |
47 |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus |
10 |
14 |
9 |
12 |
45 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
11 |
7 |
11 |
13 |
42 |
| Stanford University |
9 |
13 |
7 |
13 |
42 |
| University of California-Los Angeles |
8 |
7 |
11 |
11 |
37 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
5 |
8 |
14 |
9 |
36 |
| Ohio State University-Main Campus |
11 |
6 |
11 |
8 |
36 |
| Purdue University-Main Campus |
12 |
9 |
9 |
5 |
35 |
| University of California-Berkeley |
6 |
10 |
4 |
13 |
33 |
| Carnegie Mellon University |
6 |
8 |
10 |
7 |
31 |
| University of California-Riverside |
0 |
10 |
12 |
7 |
29 |
| Florida State University |
5 |
13 |
7 |
3 |
28 |
| Subtotal |
138 |
162 |
161 |
151 |
612 |
| Total |
324 |
344 |
345 |
379 |
1392 |
Table 1: Universities granting the most PhD's in Statistics for the academic years 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, & 2012-2013. For the full list, click here.
| Biostatistics Doctorate Degrees |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
Total |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
13 |
12 |
16 |
9 |
50 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
9 |
10 |
15 |
15 |
49 |
| University of Pittsburgh |
10 |
15 |
9 |
12 |
46 |
| Harvard University |
6 |
9 |
17 |
10 |
42 |
| University of Texas Health Science Center |
5 |
7 |
9 |
13 |
34 |
| University of Washington-Seattle Campus |
8 |
5 |
7 |
12 |
32 |
| Boston University |
8 |
5 |
8 |
9 |
30 |
| University of Pennsylvania |
5 |
5 |
8 |
5 |
23 |
| Emory University |
4 |
2 |
12 |
5 |
23 |
| University of California-Berkeley |
5 |
8 |
3 |
5 |
21 |
| Johns Hopkins University |
6 |
8 |
4 |
2 |
20 |
| University of Iowa |
3 |
2 |
8 |
5 |
18 |
| Subtotal |
82 |
88 |
116 |
102 |
388 |
| Total |
125 |
125 |
173 |
151 |
574 |
Table 2: Universities granting the most PhD's in Biostatistics for the academic years 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, & 2012-2013. For the full list, click here.
For previous posts/articles on the growth of statistics degrees, AP Statistics, and postdocs, see the following (noting that #'s 3 & 4 include data on the number of women receiving degrees or the number of females taking AP Statistics):
- Doctorate Degrees in Statistics and Biostatistics and the Universities Granting Them, 2003-2012, ASA Community Blog Entry, February 18, 2014. [Similar to information above but goes back to 2003]
- Statistical Science Degree Comparisons (updated through 2012), ASA Community Blog Entry, December 20, 2013.
- AP Statistics Sustains Strong Growth in 2013, ASA Community Blog Entry, October 4, 2013.
- Undergrad Statistics Degrees Continue Large Increases in 2012, Amstat News, October, 2013.
- Postdoc Numbers Small but on the Rise for Statistics, ASA Community Blog Entry, September 9, 2013
- Growing Numbers of Stats Degrees, Amstat News, May, 2013.
- See also this April 2007 Amstat News article, "Statistical Sciences Produces High Percentage of Female New Doctoral Recipients," by Rosanne Desmone: http://www.amstat.org/misc/2007_DesmoneFemalesInStats.pdf
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