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September 16, 2010

Percentage of Swanson PhDs granted to women ranks high

The Swanson School of Engineering was ranked second in North America by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) for the percentage of doctoral degrees awarded to women in 2009.

Pitt’s Swanson school was positioned just slightly behind the University of Iowa in ASEE’s 2009 Profiles of Engineering and Engineering Technology Colleges. The annual publication provides statistics and profiles for all of the more than 400 engineering schools in the United States and Canada.

Of the PhD degrees the Swanson school awarded last year, 37.5 percent went to female doctoral students, only 2 percent fewer than the percentage of PhD degrees awarded to women at the University of Iowa, according to the report.

The ASEE only ranked the 103 institutions that awarded at least 25 PhD degrees last year. The other top 10 universities in this category were Yale, Stony Brook, Duke, the University of Oklahoma, Rutgers, Northwestern, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Louisville.

According to the ASEE publication, among the Swanson school’s rankings in other significant categories from the report were:

20th in industrial and mechanical engineering bachelor’s degrees awarded, and

25th in computer engineering bachelor’s degrees awarded.

Filed under: Feature,Volume 43 Issue 2

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