New data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates from the National Science Foundation provides information on the universities that awarded the most doctorates to African Americans during the 2019-2023 period.
Walden University, headquartered in Minneapolis but conducts most of its business online, awarded 1,536 doctorates to African Americans during the five-year period. This was 12 percent of all doctorates awarded to Black Americans during the five-year period. The number of doctorates awarded to Blacks from Walden University was more than six times the number of doctorates awarded to Blacks from Howard University in the same period. Howard ranks second on the list of universities awarding the most doctorates to African Americans.
The only other university awarding more than 200 doctorates to African Americans in this five-year span was Jackson State University in Mississippi. The University of Georgia ranked fourth with 168 doctoral degrees awarded to Blacks.
The other universities awarding more than 100 doctorates to African Americans in the 2019-to-2023 period were:
University of Michigan, 148
Georgia State University, 142
Morgan State University, 134
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 133
Louisiana State University, 131
University of Florida, 127
Ohio State University, 123
North Carolina A&T State University, 120
University of Maryland, 119
Florida State University, 112
Harvard University, 111
University of Illinois, 108
Michigan State University, 107
North Carolina State University, 104
University of South Carolina, 104
University of California, Los Angeles, 100
*Historically Black Universities in bold type
