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 from 2021 to 2025.
Walden University, headquartered in Minneapolis but conducts most of its business online, awarded 1,476 doctorates to African Americans during the five-year period. This was 10.8 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 five times the 262 doctorates awarded to Blacks from Howard University, which ranks second on the list of universities awarding the most doctorates to African Americans in the 2021 to 2025 period.
The only other universities awarding more than 150 doctorates to African Americans in this five-year span were the University of Michigan, Louisiana State University, and historically Black Jackson State University in Mississippi.
The following universities (historically Black institutions in bold type) awarded more than 100 doctorates to African Americans from 2021 to 2025:
- University of Georgia, 142
- Georgia State University, 140
- North Carolina A&T State University, 139
- Morgan State University, 137
- University of Florida, 135
- Ohio State University, 132
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 132
- Harvard University, 123
- North Carolina State University, 121
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 119
- Hampton University, 115
- Auburn University, 111
- University of California, Los Angeles, 111
- Temple University, 104
- Virginia Commonwealth University, 103
