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High Altitude: Vanderbilt University Graduate Education. 2001 2012 Graduate applications* 2,709 8,116 Offers of admission 974 (36%) 898 (11%) First-time enrollments** 387 (40%) 475 (53%)
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High Altitude: Vanderbilt UniversityGraduate Education 2001 2012 Graduate applications* 2,709 8,116 Offers of admission 974 (36%) 898 (11%) First-time enrollments** 387 (40%) 475 (53%) Number of graduate students 1,670 2,306 Ph.D.s awarded 168 257 URM: % of Domestic PhDs 7.6% 15.7% External funding (total) $217.6 million $569 million * Complete applications ** Acceptances minus no-shows Roughly 2/3 of students are in grant-based fields. URM = Underrepresented Minority
14 Universities in Top-25 on Both of Two Lists Top-25 on Both Lists USN&WR ranking* Federal Obligations for Science/Engineering R&D** Harvard University 1 11 Yale University 3 17 Columbia University 4 5 Stanford University 6 15 MIT 6 19 Univ. of Pennsylvania 8 4 Duke University 8 12 Northwestern University 12 24 Johns Hopkins University 13 1 Washington University 14 14 Cornell University 15 18 (all campuses) Vanderbilt University 17 21 UCLA 24 7 USC 24 23 * repeated numbers indicate tie (2012 data) ** most recent (FY2009) data