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Doctorate Degrees in Statistics and Biostatistics and the Universities Granting Them, 2003-2012

  

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

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.

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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