The nation's historically black colleges still produce the most black graduates who go on to earn Ph.D.'s in science and engineering, even though those institutions now graduate only about 20 percent of the nation's black college students. In the list below, HBCUs are in bold.
RankInstitutionBlack graduates who later earned an S&E doctorate: 2002-11
1 Howard U. 220 2 Spelman College 175 3 Florida A&M U. 154 4 Hampton U. 150 5 Xavier U. of Louisiana 126 6 Morehouse College 106 7 Morgan State U. 102 7 North Carolina A&T State U. 102 9 Southern U. 100 10 Tuskegee U. 80 10 U. of Maryland-Baltimore County 80 12 U. of Maryland at College Park 76 13 U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor 73 14 U. of Virginia 72 15 Harvard U. 71 16 Jackson State U. 69 17 U. of California at Berkeley 64 18 U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 62 18 U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 62 20 Tennessee State U. 61 21 Yale U. 60 22 Brown U. 55 22 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 55 24 U. of Florida 54 25 Cornell U. 51
