4.4 Major Ph.D.–Granting Universities by Degrees Awarded to

Women, 1920–1974

Rank	University	All PhDs	Women PhDs	% Women
1	Columbia*	21,628	5248	24%
2	NYU	9,311	2472	27%
3	Harvard	14,436	2011	15%
4	Wisconsin	14,971	1958	13%
5	UCal/Berkeley	13,535	1897	14%
6	Chicago	10,170	1891	19%
7	Michigan	11,532	1787	15%
8	Illinois	13,357	1539	12%
9	Yale	8031	1423	18%
10	Cornell	9641	1262	13%

*Includes Teachers College, which if ranked separately, was the 7^th largest producer of women Ph.Ds. (1839).

Columbia alone produced 3409 women Ph.D.s, which still left it the nation’s largest producer of women Ph.D.s

Source: Lindsey R. Harmon, ed., A Century of Doctorates (Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1978),

Table 44.