[CCoE Notice] Engineering Doctorate Trends: US Citizens & Foreign Nationals

[Khator, Suresh]

Dear Cullen College Faculty,

 

There was an interesting piece of tidbit in today's ASEE: Connections
regarding engineering Ph.D. degrees that I thought you may want to read.
One statistics that drew my attention was that nationwide over 60% of
engineering Ph.D.s in industrial, electrical and civil were awarded to
foreign nationals and little less than half for chemical and about
one-third for biomedical engineering.

 

Suresh Khator 

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Suresh K. Khator, Ph.D., P.E.                         Phone:
713-743-4205         

Associate Dean, College of Engineering    Fax: 713-743-4214

University of Houston                                     Email:
skhator at uh.edu   

E421 Engineering Bldg 2                                www.egr.uh.edu/ie

Houston, TX 77204-4008

 


Engineering Doctorates: Totals, and Discipline Preferences of U.S.
Citizens and Foreign Nationals 


The total number of doctorates awarded by US colleges of engineering is
currently nearing 10,000 as shown in the accompanying graph. Through the
mid-1960s, this growth was due to US citizens who enrolled in graduate
programs. Since then, doctoral degree growth has resulted primarily from
degrees awarded to foreign nationals. From AY1970 through AY2008-09, the
number of doctorates awarded to US citizens increased only 39%. On a per
capita basis, doctorates awarded to US citizens over this four-decade
period have remained constant.


 

Foreign national doctoral students have strong preferences for specific
engineering disciplines. Nine of the larger disciplines ranged from 34%
to 64% foreign national doctorates in AY2008-09. The largest fractions
were for industrial (64%), electrical (63%) and civil (60%) engineering;
the smallest were for chemical (47%), aerospace (44%) and biological
(including biomedical) (34%) engineering. It is noteworthy that these
rankings are much the same as those for AY1990-91 (largest, civil (63%),
industrial (63%) and mechanical (56%) engineering and, smallest,
aerospace (47%), chemical (42%) and biological (33%) engineering).

This article was provided by Engineering Trends. For more information,
visit Engineering Trends at engtrends.com.
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