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the ntimber of doctorates conferred, on 

 Americans by German or other foreign 

 universities, but as our own universities 

 become better equipped the number of stu- 

 dents going abroad tends to decrease. 



DOCTORATES CONFERRED 



1902 1901 1900 



Chicago 27 36 37 



Yale 29 39 '^ii 



Johns Hopkins .. : 17 30 33 



Harvard 31 29 36 



Columbia 32 25 21 



Pennsylvania .... 14 25 9 



Cornell 23 21 19 



Clark 1 7 9 



New York 4 6 7 



Michigan 10 3 5 



Wisconsin 6 5 5 



Virginia 6 8 2 



Columbian 2 3 5 



Brown 2 2 3 



'Bryn Mawr 2 2 1 



Minnesota 

 Princeton . 

 California 

 Stanford . . 

 Nebraska . 

 Vanderbilt 



AVashing-ton 



Syracuse .... 

 Colorado .... 



Kansas 



Missouri 



Tulane 



1 

 

 

 

 

 214 



3 

 2 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 

 

 

 







253 



1899 

 24 

 30 

 38 

 24 

 33 

 20 

 7 

 5 

 9 

 4 

 . 7 

 .2 

 

 3 

 3 

 2 

 3 

 3 

 

 1 

 



1898 Totil 

 36 160 



158 

 151 

 146 

 133 

 92 

 89 

 34 

 31 

 29 

 28 

 18 

 11 

 11 

 11 

 11 

 10 

 9 

 8 

 5 

 4 

 3 

 2 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



233 224 234 1158 

 It may be seen from the table that the 

 twenty-seven institutions are. pretty defi- 

 nitely grouped. There are five institutions, 

 Chicago, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Harvard 

 and Columbiaj whose number of doctorates 

 during the past five years range from 160 

 to 133. Then come Pennsylvania and Cor- 

 nell whose numbers are 92 and 87 respec- 

 tively. These seven universities have con- 

 ferred just four fifths of all the degrees 

 that have been conferred by reputable in- 

 stitutions. Clark, New York, Michigan 

 and Wisconsin form a group conferring 

 about six degrees annually. With Virginia 

 intervening, we next come to a group con- 



sisting of Columbian, Brown, BrjTi Mawr, 

 Minnesota, Princeton, California and Stan- 

 ford, each of which confers about two de- 

 grees a year. There is then a drop to 

 institutions conferring on the average one 

 degree or less. 



During the five years over which the 

 statistics extend there has been no marked 

 increase in the number of degrees con- 

 ferred or alteration in the relative posi- 

 tions of the universities. The remarkable 

 growth of the state universities is not wit- 

 nessed by an increase in the number of de- 

 grees, but we may expect to see this in the 

 course of the next five years. The 253 

 degrees last year were probably the largest 

 number in the history of American educa- 

 tion; but this year there is a drop to 214, 

 the smallest number during the years cov- 

 ered by. the records. 



DOCTORATES CONFERRED IN THE SCIENCES. 



1902 1901 1900 1899 1898 Total 



Johns Hopkins .. . 9 19 20 17 19 84 



Chicago 15 16 19 13 12 75 



Columbia 14 13 12 23 10 72 



Y'ale 10 18 10 15 11 04 



Harvard 14 15 15 7 11 62 



Cornell 16 13 11 2 11 53 



Pennsylvania .... 5 12 6 8 8 39 



Clark 1 7 9 5 12 34 



Wisconsin 4 3 1 4 2 14 



Michigan ... 5 1 3 9 



California 1 2 1 3 1 8 



Bryn Mawr 1 2 1 2 1 7 



Virginia 1 4 2 7 



Columbian 1 1 3 1 6 



Stanford 2 1 25 



Nebraska 1 1 1 2 5 



Brown 2 1 1 4 



Minnesota 2 1 1 4 



Princeton 1 3 4 



New York 1 1 1 3 



Washington 1 2 3 



Vanderbilt 1 1 2 



Colorado 1 1 



Kansas 1 1 



Missouri 1 1 



Syracuse 1 o 1 



104 131 113 115 105 568 



