Top producers of black graduates who go on to earn Ph.D.'s in science and engineering

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.

Rank  Institution    Black 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

Source: National Science Foundation