Table 3. Top 50 doctorate-granting institutions, ranked by number of doctorate recipients: 2015

Rank	Institution	Doctorate recipients
1	U. Michigan, Ann Arbor	852
2	U. Texas, Austin	841
3	U. Wisconsin-Madison	836
4	U. California, Berkeley	811
5	U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	781
6	U. Florida	747
7	U. California, Los Angeles	744
8	Texas A&M U., College Station and Health Science Center	732
9	Ohio State U., Columbus	726
10	Harvard U.	715
11	Purdue U., West Lafayette	714
12	U. Minnesota, Twin Cities	711
13	Pennsylvania State U., University Park and Hershey Medical Center	694
14	Stanford U.	689
15	U. Washington, Seattle	666
16	U. Maryland, College Park	619
17	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	606
18	Michigan State U.	597
19	Walden U.	562
20	U. California, Davis	539
21	Georgia Institute of Technology	526
22	U. California, San Diego	501
23	Johns Hopkins U.	492
23	U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill	492
25	U. Arizona	485
26	Cornell U.	481
26	U. Pennsylvania	481
28	Columbia U. in the City of New York	475
29	North Carolina State U.	472
30	Arizona State U.	471
31	U. Southern California	452
31	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.	452
33	Indiana U., Bloomington	448
34	New York U.	430
35	Northwestern U.	425
36	U. Georgia	424
37	Yale U.	420
38	U. Colorado Boulder	418
39	U. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh	417
40	CUNY, Graduate Center	408
41	Boston U.	399
42	U. Chicago	392
43	U. California, Irvine	390
44	Rutgers, State U. New Jersey, New Brunswick	389
45	Florida State U.	383
46	Princeton U.	373
47	U. Utah	372
48	Duke U.	366
49	U. Kansas	351
50	U. Virginia, Charlottesville	346