Table 3. Top 50 doctorate-granting institutions, ranked by number of doctorate recipients: 2016

Rank	Institution	Doctorate recipients
1	U. Texas, Austin	849
2	U. Wisconsin-Madison	823
3	U. Michigan, Ann Arbor	819
4	U. California, Berkeley	796
5	U. Minnesota, Twin Cities	787
6	Stanford U.	763
7	U. Florida	730
8	Purdue U., West Lafayette	727
9	Ohio State U., Columbus	716
10	U. California, Los Angeles	689
11	Texas A&M U., College Station and Health Science Center	684
12	Pennsylvania State U., University Park and Hershey Medical Center	680
13	U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	678
14	Harvard U.	677
15	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	646
16	Walden U.	635
17	U. Washington, Seattle	615
18	U. Maryland, College Park	546
19	Georgia Institute of Technology	531
20	U. California, San Diego	521
21	U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill	510
22	Michigan State U.	503
23	U. California, Davis	501
24	Columbia U. in the City of New York	500
25	Cornell U.	492
26	U. Southern California	491
27	New York U.	483
28	North Carolina State U.	482
29	Johns Hopkins U.	476
30	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.	472
31	U. Pennsylvania	464
32	U. Georgia	455
33	Northwestern U.	454
34	U. Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh	447
35	U. Arizona	436
36	CUNY, Graduate Center	431
37	Rutgers, State U. New Jersey, New Brunswick	416
38	Arizona State U.	411
39	Duke U.	408
40	Yale U.	407
41	Indiana U., Bloomington	405
42	U. Colorado Boulder	400
43	U. Chicago	395
44	U. California, Irvine	393
45	Boston U.	385
46	Princeton U.	373
47	U. Iowa	369
48	Florida State U.	362
49	SUNY, U. Buffalo	335
49	U. Tennessee, Knoxville	335