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[7/25/16 update: The updated tables for universities awarding PhD's in Statistics and Biostatistics from 2003-2014 can be found here:

• List of universities granting PhD's in statistics for 2003-2015
• List of universities granting PhD's in biostatistics for 2003-2015

10/2/15 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.]

3/24/15: For a more general perspective, see the Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences and the American Mathematical Society website.]

Last week I posted blog entries listing the largest U.S. graduate programs in statistics and biostatistics for the three most recent academic years for which data is available from NCES IPEDS: 2009-2010, 2010-2011, & 2011-2012. See for example, Largest U.S. Doctorate Programs in Statistics and Biostatistics. In that blog, I reported that 67 universities granted PhD's statistics in the last three years; 31 for biostatistics.

In this blog entry, I look at the PhD numbers by year going back to the 2002-2003 academic year. In Figure 1, one sees a general upward trend - at least initially - in the number of universities granting statistics and biostatistics PhD's each year, paralleling the growth in PhD's granted for statistic and biostatistics for the same period (Figure 2).  

Figure 1: The number of U.S. universities granting a PhD in statistics and biostatistics for the years 2003-2013.

 

Figure 2: Number of PhD's in statistics and biostatistics granted in the U.S. 2003-2013.

Last week's blog entry also showed the top PhD granting institutions over the last three years (2010-2012) for both statistics and biostatistics. Here's a look at the top 10 PhD granters for 2003-2006, 2007-2009, and, again, 2010-2012: 
 

Statistics Doctorate Degrees	2003	2004	2005	2006	Total
North Carolina State University at Raleigh	15	9	12	13	49
Texas A & M University-College Station	6	12	18	10	46
Stanford University	10	12	14	6	42
University of Wisconsin-Madison	5	6	14	9	34
Iowa State University	9	8	5	11	33
Purdue University-Main Campus	6	5	12	8	31
Carnegie Mellon University	6	8	3	12	29
University of California-Berkeley	5	5	8	7	25
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	7	3	7	8	25
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	6	9	8	1	24
Subtotal	75	77	101	85	338
Total	207	219	269	271	966

Table 1: Universities granting the most PhD's in Statistics for the academic years 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005 & 2006-2007. For the full list, click here.

 

Statistics Doctorate Degrees	2007	2008	2009	Total
North Carolina State University at Raleigh	22	15	32	69
University of Wisconsin-Madison	20	13	15	48
Ohio State University-Main Campus	12	7	11	30
Iowa State University	14	4	11	29
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	8	9	12	29
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	8	9	10	27
Purdue University-Main Campus	8	7	10	25
University of California-Los Angeles	9	7	9	25
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	8	9	8	25
Stanford University	9	10	5	24
Subtotal	118	90	123	331
Total	300	276	355	931

Table 2: Universities granting the most PhD's in Statistics for the academic years 2006-2007, 2007-2008, & 2008-2009. For the full list, click here.

 

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 3: 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	2003	2004	2005	2006	Total
Harvard University	1	9	17	14	41
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	9	9	11	8	37
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	8	12	6	7	33
University of Washington-Seattle Campus	6	9	7	6	28
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	5	8	4	4	21
University of California-Los Angeles	3	6	5	6	20
Virginia Commonwealth University	3	8	1	6	18
Emory University	4	1	3	5	13
University of California-Berkeley	2	3	3	5	13
University of Texas Health Science Center	0	1	9	0	10
Subtotal	41	66	66	61	234
Total	54	85	102	86	327

Table 4: Universities granting the most PhD's in Biostatistics for the academic years 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005 & 2006-2007. For the full list, click here.
 

Biostatistics Doctorate Degrees	2007	2008	2009	Total
Harvard University	13	12	9	34
University of Washington-Seattle Campus	8	11	8	27
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	9	5	12	26
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	5	11	9	25
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	8	10	6	24
Johns Hopkins University	0	15	5	20
Boston University	5	5	6	16
University of Texas Health Science Center	5	5	6	16
University of California-Los Angeles	7	6	2	15
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	7	2	6	15
Subtotal	67	82	69	218
Total	113	125	119	357

Table 5: Universities granting the most PhD's in Biostatistics for the academic years 2006-2007, 2007-2008, & 2008-2009. 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 6: 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.
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For previous posts/articles on the growth of statistics degrees, AP Statistics, and postdocs, see the following (noting that #'s 4 & 5 include data on the number of women receiving degrees or the number of females taking AP Statistics):

1. Largest Master's Programs in Statistics and Biostatistics, ASA Community Blog Entry, February 9, 2014
2. Largest Doctorate Programs in Statistics and Biostatistics, ASA Community Blog Entry, February 9, 2014
3. Statistical Science Degree Comparisons (updated through 2012), ASA Community Blog Entry, December 20, 2013. 
4. AP Statistics Sustains Strong Growth in 2013, ASA Community Blog Entry, October 4, 2013.
5. Undergrad Statistics Degrees Continue Large Increases in 2012, Amstat News, October, 2013.
6. Postdoc Numbers Small but on the Rise for Statistics, ASA Community Blog Entry, September 9, 2013
7. Growing Numbers of Stats Degrees, Amstat News, May, 2013.    
8. 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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