Every record links to the university's own repository
The names behind the numbers
This is the work itself. 708,393 doctoral and master's theses awarded by 106 American universities, with the name of the person who wrote each one, the department, the year and the title.
Every other page here reports a share or a count. This one reports the research. These are the dissertations American universities produced, the problems they chose to work on, and the people they trained to do it.
Each name links to the awarding university's own repository, so any entry can be checked at its source.
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Open the lists
Both views carry the same structure: pick a university, expand a department, expand a year, and read the names and titles.
How to read one
- Pick a university from the rail on the left. It is ordered by non-resident share of STEM doctoral completions, so the institutions where the question is sharpest are at the top.
- Expand a department. The count beside it is how many records the harvest found for that department.
- Expand a year and read the list. Each row is one thesis: the author, and the title of the work.
- Click any name to open that record in the university's own repository and verify it.
A department is the right unit to look at. A university-wide figure averages a physics department against a school of education. The department list shows who actually did the work in one field, one year at a time.
The largest collections
By number of records the harvest found. A university that publishes more appears larger here, which is a fact about its repository and not only about its output.
Where the non-resident share is highest
The same lists, for the universities with the highest non-resident share of STEM doctoral completions in IPEDS.
What this record is not
The gap matters as much as the count.
No university is required to publish any of this. There is no federal rule obliging an institution to post a dissertation, or even to list the ones it has awarded. There is no national register. Each university decides, and the decision is often revisited department by department.
So this record was built one institution at a time, and coverage is a floor rather than a total. A university that appears smaller here may simply publish less. Two institutions cannot be ranked against each other on record count alone.
The names are reproduced as the awarding repository recorded them, with catalogue artefacts removed — a degree or an institution glued onto the author field. Where a suffix could be a real part of a name it is left alone, because a tidy wrong name is worse than an untidy right one.