E 4.2 Major Ph.D.-Granting Universities,

1920–1974 

Rank

University

# PhDs

1

Columbia *

21,028

2

Wisconsin

16,929

3

Harvard

15,447

4

California, Berkeley

15,433

5

Illinois

14,896

5

Michigan

13,319

6

Ohio State

12,167

7

Chicago

12,061

8

New York University

11,783

9

Cornell

10,953

10

Minnesota

10,931

11

Stanford

9487

12

Yale

9460

 

* Includes Teachers College (6026); without TC, Columbia (15602)

would rank 2nd.