October 11, 2009

Minority and Female Scholars Continue to Earn More Doctorates

Over the past two decades, the number of female and minority doctorate recipients has ballooned. The new talent could help to diversify the professoriate further, especially among full professors, who still tend to be white men.

In fact, as these tables show, women earn just over 50 percent of all Ph.D.'s awarded to U.S. citizens. (Women received under half of doctorates awarded to citizens and noncitizens. Many noncitizens study engineering and the physical sciences, fields in which