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Pennsylvania has 126 degree-granting institutions in this data. Between them they award 8,720 research doctorates and 56,690 master’s degrees over the window, and take $3.59bn in federal research and development money.
This page counts every institution in the state, including the ones that award no graduate degree at all. Leaving those out would make a state look like its flagship.
126
institutions in the state
43 award a research doctorate. 13 enrol no graduate students at all.
43.5%
of research doctorates go to non-residents
3,793 of 8,720. National figure: 38.9%.
18.2%
of graduate enrolment is non-resident
26,295 of 144,542 graduate students.
$3.59bn
federal research and development money
Across 51 institutions. $2.62bn in total federal obligations.
Where Pennsylvania sits
The non-resident share of research doctorates, against the same figure for the country. That is 4.6 points above the national figure of 38.9%.
Pennsylvania ranks 14 of 52 states on that share, and 5 of 56 on the number of research doctorates it awards. Rank 1 is the highest. Only states that award doctorates are ranked.
Undergraduate and graduate, side by side
The same institutions at two levels. Undergraduate is the remainder once graduate enrolment is taken out of the total, and both levels carry their own non-resident count. In Pennsylvania the graduate share is 13.6 points higher than the undergraduate share.
Click any column heading to sort. Click it again to reverse. The panel under the table narrows what is shown — everything is shown until you ask for less.
| Institution | Undergraduates | Non-res | Share | Graduates | Non-res | Share | State funding | Federal R&D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 42,223 | 4,169 | 9.9% | 8,176 | 3,479 | 42.6% | — | $1.30bn |
| University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 25,171 | 1,029 | 4.1% | 9,354 | 2,139 | 22.9% | — | $1.50bn |
| Temple University | 21,720 | 817 | 3.8% | 8,485 | 1,076 | 12.7% | — | $315.0m |
| University of Pennsylvania | 11,611 | 1,568 | 13.5% | 17,100 | 5,319 | 31.1% | — | $2.17bn |
| Drexel University | 13,589 | 1,182 | 8.7% | 8,114 | 1,189 | 14.7% | — | $170.2m |
| West Chester University of Pennsylvania | 14,344 | 33 | 0.2% | 2,732 | 60 | 2.2% | $89.8m | $6.9m |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 7,289 | 1,393 | 19.1% | 8,307 | 5,218 | 62.8% | — | $505.3m |
| Pennsylvania State University-World Campus | 7,945 | 215 | 2.7% | 5,619 | 211 | 3.8% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania Western University | 8,336 | 97 | 1.2% | 2,969 | 41 | 1.4% | $151.8m | — |
| Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania | 9,967 | 50 | 0.5% | 1,121 | 4 | 0.4% | $88.4m | — |
| Community College of Allegheny County | 10,451 | 1 | 0.0% | — | — | — | $43.2m | — |
| Villanova University | 7,063 | 134 | 1.9% | 3,048 | 228 | 7.5% | — | $33.1m |
| Indiana University of Pennsylvania | 7,432 | 166 | 2.2% | 1,814 | 328 | 18.1% | $59.4m | $6.6m |
| Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania | 6,803 | 205 | 3.0% | 1,547 | 13 | 0.8% | $54.9m | — |
| Thomas Jefferson University | 3,731 | 81 | 2.2% | 4,584 | 365 | 8.0% | — | $271.2m |
| Duquesne University | 5,226 | 137 | 2.6% | 2,911 | 320 | 11.0% | — | $18.3m |
| Lehigh University | 5,811 | 441 | 7.6% | 1,779 | 595 | 33.4% | — | $62.4m |
| Kutztown University of Pennsylvania | 6,420 | 78 | 1.2% | 996 | 18 | 1.8% | $50.3m | — |
| Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia | 4,828 | 98 | 2.0% | 2,373 | 191 | 8.0% | — | — |
| Eastern University | 2,068 | 94 | 4.5% | 4,913 | 66 | 1.3% | — | — |
| Millersville University of Pennsylvania | 5,724 | 87 | 1.5% | 1,008 | 13 | 1.3% | $44.7m | — |
| Lehigh Carbon Community College | 6,385 | 13 | 0.2% | — | — | — | $15.8m | — |
| Widener University | 2,811 | 48 | 1.7% | 2,799 | 73 | 2.6% | — | — |
| East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania | 4,697 | 36 | 0.8% | 763 | 19 | 2.5% | $41.7m | $3.9m |
| Wilkes University | 1,956 | 109 | 5.6% | 3,242 | 11 | 0.3% | — | — |
| Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania | 4,421 | 35 | 0.8% | 763 | 16 | 2.1% | $41.1m | — |
| University of Scranton | 3,666 | 22 | 0.6% | 1,159 | 233 | 20.1% | — | $1.4m |
| Robert Morris University | 3,769 | 240 | 6.4% | 968 | 364 | 37.6% | — | $1.4m |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg | 4,164 | 676 | 16.2% | 487 | 138 | 28.3% | — | — |
| Gannon University | 2,920 | 356 | 12.2% | 1,628 | 723 | 44.4% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania College of Technology | 4,287 | 0 | 0.0% | 20 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| American College of Financial Services | 3,963 | 0 | 0.0% | 241 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine | 10 | 0 | 0.0% | 4,107 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Bucknell University | 3,846 | 175 | 4.6% | 46 | 21 | 45.7% | — | $6.2m |
| York College of Pennsylvania | 3,308 | 47 | 1.4% | 412 | 2 | 0.5% | — | — |
| Harrisburg University of Science and Technology | 718 | 12 | 1.7% | 2,840 | 2,758 | 97.1% | — | — |
| La Salle University | 2,426 | 112 | 4.6% | 1,128 | 35 | 3.1% | — | — |
| Messiah University | 2,586 | 63 | 2.4% | 758 | 19 | 2.5% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College | 3,226 | 170 | 5.3% | 97 | 5 | 5.2% | — | — |
| Point Park University | 2,323 | 92 | 4.0% | 976 | 28 | 2.9% | — | — |
| Holy Family University | 2,446 | 33 | 1.3% | 702 | 1 | 0.1% | — | — |
| Arcadia University | 1,890 | 146 | 7.7% | 1,252 | 7 | 0.6% | — | $1.7m |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Abington | 3,095 | 198 | 6.4% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine | 0 | 0 | — | 3,027 | 4 | 0.1% | — | $7.6m |
| Mount Aloysius College | 2,942 | 79 | 2.7% | 25 | 4 | 16.0% | — | — |
| DeSales University | 2,149 | 2 | 0.1% | 770 | 4 | 0.5% | — | — |
| Gettysburg College | 2,216 | 257 | 11.6% | 679 | 1 | 0.1% | — | $1.2m |
| Marywood University | 1,874 | 14 | 0.7% | 976 | 301 | 30.8% | — | — |
| Saint Francis University | 2,429 | 0 | 0.0% | 406 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Lafayette College | 2,764 | 187 | 6.8% | — | — | — | — | $2.7m |
| Mercyhurst University | 2,292 | 119 | 5.2% | 376 | 35 | 9.3% | — | — |
| Moravian University | 2,006 | 16 | 0.8% | 652 | 6 | 0.9% | — | — |
| La Roche University | 2,300 | 134 | 5.8% | 318 | 74 | 23.3% | — | — |
| Alvernia University | 2,050 | 89 | 4.3% | 435 | 13 | 3.0% | — | — |
| Butler County Community College | 2,468 | 8 | 0.3% | — | — | — | $10.3m | — |
| Lancaster Bible College | 1,778 | 0 | 0.0% | 677 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Immaculata University | 1,529 | 12 | 0.8% | 878 | 6 | 0.7% | — | — |
| Grove City College | 2,365 | 30 | 1.3% | 29 | 1 | 3.4% | — | — |
| Chatham University | 1,507 | 51 | 3.4% | 812 | 22 | 2.7% | — | — |
| Carlow University | 1,344 | 13 | 1.0% | 966 | 7 | 0.7% | — | — |
| Susquehanna University | 2,241 | 30 | 1.3% | 6 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Dickinson College | 2,204 | 317 | 14.4% | 13 | 2 | 15.4% | — | $1.7m |
| Delaware Valley University | 1,759 | 6 | 0.3% | 430 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Neumann University | 1,695 | 22 | 1.3% | 476 | 2 | 0.4% | — | — |
| Gwynedd Mercy University | 1,457 | 0 | 0.0% | 708 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Elizabethtown College | 1,857 | 42 | 2.3% | 295 | 1 | 0.3% | — | — |
| Lebanon Valley College | 1,710 | 17 | 1.0% | 432 | 2 | 0.5% | — | — |
| Misericordia University | 1,670 | 3 | 0.2% | 437 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Seton Hill University | 1,597 | 0 | 0.0% | 387 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks | 1,940 | 61 | 3.1% | 4 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| King's College | 1,590 | 19 | 1.2% | 342 | 2 | 0.6% | — | — |
| Franklin and Marshall College | 1,911 | 327 | 17.1% | — | — | — | — | $4.8m |
| Lincoln University | 1,717 | 46 | 2.7% | 131 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Muhlenberg College | 1,788 | 23 | 1.3% | 30 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Saint Joseph's University - Lancaster | 1,648 | 0 | 0.0% | 122 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Wilson College | 1,180 | 18 | 1.5% | 514 | 2 | 0.4% | — | — |
| Bryn Mawr College | 1,349 | 179 | 13.3% | 317 | 10 | 3.2% | — | $6.3m |
| Albright College | 1,328 | 29 | 2.2% | 324 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Swarthmore College | 1,644 | 235 | 14.3% | — | — | — | — | $6.1m |
| Strayer University-Pennsylvania | 1,334 | 1 | 0.1% | 169 | 4 | 2.4% | — | — |
| Ursinus College | 1,492 | 7 | 0.5% | — | — | — | — | $1.0m |
| Saint Vincent College | 1,280 | 24 | 1.9% | 162 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Haverford College | 1,424 | 154 | 10.8% | — | — | — | — | $4.1m |
| Chestnut Hill College | 972 | 23 | 2.4% | 430 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Waynesburg University | 1,088 | 6 | 0.6% | 227 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Juniata College | 1,212 | 129 | 10.6% | 80 | 7 | 8.8% | — | $1.2m |
| Geneva College | 1,149 | 34 | 3.0% | 109 | 2 | 1.8% | — | — |
| Cedar Crest College | 886 | 56 | 6.3% | 362 | 4 | 1.1% | — | — |
| Westminster College | 1,155 | 1 | 0.1% | 48 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Washington & Jefferson College | 1,162 | 21 | 1.8% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Salus University | 0 | 0 | — | 1,148 | 116 | 10.1% | — | — |
| Cairn University-Langhorne | 855 | 48 | 5.6% | 201 | 16 | 8.0% | — | — |
| Keystone College | 978 | 8 | 0.8% | 73 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Westminster Theological Seminary | 0 | 0 | — | 1,031 | 70 | 6.8% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Lehigh Valley | 954 | 8 | 0.8% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Thiel College | 819 | 0 | 0.0% | 101 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Peirce College | 790 | 0 | 0.0% | 82 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Scranton | 837 | 4 | 0.5% | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Central Penn College | 806 | 26 | 3.2% | 21 | 1 | 4.8% | — | — |
| Rosemont College | 484 | 7 | 1.4% | 293 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Cheyney University of Pennsylvania | 724 | 2 | 0.3% | — | — | — | $20.8m | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State York | 702 | 34 | 4.8% | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine | 63 | 0 | 0.0% | 586 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Mont Alto | 587 | 8 | 1.4% | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| University of Valley Forge | 498 | 18 | 3.6% | 75 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Gratz College | 221 | 9 | 4.1% | 261 | 14 | 5.4% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State New Kensington | 456 | 4 | 0.9% | — | — | — | — | — |
| Moore College of Art and Design | 390 | 0 | 0.0% | 9 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Wilkes-Barre | 348 | 3 | 0.9% | 5 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Bryn Athyn College of the New Church | 273 | 7 | 2.6% | 12 | 5 | 41.7% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley | 0 | 0 | — | 258 | 99 | 38.4% | — | — |
| United Lutheran Seminary | 0 | 0 | — | 258 | 10 | 3.9% | — | — |
| Trinity Anglican Seminary | 0 | 0 | — | 227 | 27 | 11.9% | — | — |
| Pittsburgh Theological Seminary | 0 | 0 | — | 223 | 13 | 5.8% | — | — |
| Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary-Overbrook | 41 | 0 | 0.0% | 132 | 15 | 11.4% | — | — |
| Curtis Institute of Music | 106 | 47 | 44.3% | 53 | 27 | 50.9% | — | — |
| Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | 99 | 8 | 8.1% | 42 | 4 | 9.5% | — | — |
| International Institute for Restorative Practices | 0 | 0 | — | 135 | 10 | 7.4% | — | — |
| Won Institute of Graduate Studies | 0 | 0 | — | 112 | 1 | 0.9% | — | — |
| Saint Vincent Seminary | 0 | 0 | — | 76 | 9 | 11.8% | — | — |
| Lancaster Theological Seminary | 0 | 0 | — | 61 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Missio Theological Seminary | 0 | 0 | — | 49 | 16 | 32.7% | — | — |
| Reconstructionist Rabbinical College | 0 | 0 | — | 43 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Yeshivath Beth Moshe | 39 | 0 | 0.0% | 2 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius | 0 | 0 | — | 35 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
| Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church | 0 | 0 | — | 12 | 0 | 0.0% | — | — |
The two levels diverge most at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology: 1.7% of its 718 undergraduates and 97.1% of its 2,840 graduate students. These are different admissions systems with different applicant pools, different money and different reasons to say yes, and a single state figure hides both.
17,740 of 387,187 undergraduates and 26,295 of 144,542 graduate students. IPEDS reports no graduate enrolment for 13 of these institutions; their rows show a dash rather than a zero, because the file not carrying a number is not the same as the number being none.
What the state figure is an average of
The largest graduate enrolments in Pennsylvania, each with its own non-resident share. Nothing here is excluded from the figures above. The point is to show what they are made of.
| Institution | Graduate students | Share of the state | Non-resident |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pennsylvania | 17,100 | 11.8% | 31.1% |
| University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 9,354 | 6.5% | 22.9% |
| Temple University | 8,485 | 5.9% | 12.7% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 8,307 | 5.7% | 62.8% |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 8,176 | 5.7% | 42.6% |
| Drexel University | 8,114 | 5.6% | 14.7% |
No single institution decides this figure. The largest, University of Pennsylvania, holds 11.8% of the state’s graduate enrolment, and removing it moves the state share from 18.2% to 16.5%.
Practical training, and the other student visas
A student visa does not end at graduation. Optional Practical Training lets a graduate work on the same visa, and a STEM degree adds a further twenty-four months. It applies at both levels — a foreign undergraduate can take OPT as readily as a doctoral graduate — which is why the undergraduate share above is not the end of the story.
| Institution | OPT authorisations | National rank | STEM OPT authorisations | National rank | Students employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 972 | 42 | 410 | 44 | 1,519 |
| Temple University | 289 | 93 | 0 | — | 452 |
| University of Pennsylvania | 1,512 | 18 | 861 | 18 | 2,540 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 1,919 | 9 | 1,387 | 7 | 3,506 |
Do not add these two columns together. A graduate who holds post-completion OPT and then a STEM extension in the same year appears in both, and the sum counts that person twice. They are authorisations, not people. Figures are for 2024, from SEVP’s top-100 and top-200 school lists — an institution outside those lists has no published figure, which is a fact about the list and never a zero.
J-1 physicians. Pennsylvania hosted 1,034 J-1 physicians in graduate medical education in 2025. That list is published for the top twelve states only, so a state missing from it has no published figure.
Every institution
Largest first by total enrolment. A dash means the institution awards none of that degree, or that no federal research money was matched to it.
| Institution | City | Control | Enrolled | Graduate | Master’s | Non-res | Doctorates | Non-res | Federal R&D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | University Park | public | 50,399 | 8,176 | 2,624 | 1,128 | 2,963 | 1,375 | $1.30bn |
| University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | Pittsburgh | public | 34,525 | 9,354 | 3,220 | 1,294 | 2,020 | 862 | $1.50bn |
| Temple University | Philadelphia | public | 30,205 | 8,485 | 1,424 | 360 | 1,109 | 344 | $315.0m |
| University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 28,711 | 17,100 | 10,337 | 4,979 | 3,290 | 972 | $2.17bn |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 21,703 | 8,114 | 4,271 | 1,261 | 1,339 | 270 | $170.2m |
| West Chester University of Pennsylvania | West Chester | public | 17,076 | 2,732 | 561 | 62 | 213 | 2 | $6.9m |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh | private nonprofit | 15,596 | 8,307 | 14,241 | 10,393 | 1,752 | 962 | $505.3m |
| Pennsylvania State University-World Campus | University Park | public | 13,564 | 5,619 | 2,280 | 127 | 1 | 0 | — |
| Pennsylvania Western University | California | public | 11,305 | 2,969 | 257 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania | Bloomsburg | public | 11,088 | 1,121 | 89 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Community College of Allegheny County | Pittsburgh | public | 10,451 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Villanova University | Villanova | private nonprofit | 10,111 | 3,048 | 1,391 | 259 | 149 | 52 | $33.1m |
| Indiana University of Pennsylvania | Indiana | public | 9,246 | 1,814 | 450 | 52 | 461 | 78 | $6.6m |
| Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania | Slippery Rock | public | 8,350 | 1,547 | 244 | 5 | 101 | 0 | — |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 8,315 | 4,584 | 781 | 120 | 178 | 24 | $271.2m |
| Duquesne University | Pittsburgh | private nonprofit | 8,137 | 2,911 | 405 | 81 | 447 | 109 | $18.3m |
| Lehigh University | Bethlehem | private nonprofit | 7,590 | 1,779 | 1,233 | 453 | 506 | 238 | $62.4m |
| Kutztown University of Pennsylvania | Kutztown | public | 7,416 | 996 | 248 | 6 | — | — | — |
| Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 7,201 | 2,373 | 333 | 43 | 143 | 20 | — |
| Eastern University | Saint Davids | private nonprofit | 6,981 | 4,913 | 2,529 | 57 | 72 | 4 | — |
| Millersville University of Pennsylvania | Millersville | public | 6,732 | 1,008 | 285 | 10 | — | — | — |
| Lehigh Carbon Community College | Schnecksville | public | 6,385 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Widener University | Chester | private nonprofit | 5,610 | 2,799 | 341 | 12 | 265 | 65 | — |
| East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania | East Stroudsburg | public | 5,460 | 763 | 61 | 19 | — | — | $3.9m |
| Wilkes University | Wilkes-Barre | private nonprofit | 5,198 | 3,242 | 52 | 15 | 198 | 0 | — |
| Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania | Shippensburg | public | 5,184 | 763 | 154 | 21 | — | — | — |
| University of Scranton | Scranton | private nonprofit | 4,825 | 1,159 | 196 | 16 | 41 | 1 | $1.4m |
| Robert Morris University | Moon Township | private nonprofit | 4,737 | 968 | 577 | 279 | 119 | 9 | $1.4m |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg | Middletown | public | 4,651 | 487 | 245 | 113 | 46 | 13 | — |
| Gannon University | Erie | private nonprofit | 4,548 | 1,628 | 723 | 659 | 42 | 0 | — |
| Pennsylvania College of Technology | Williamsport | public | 4,307 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — |
| American College of Financial Services | King of Prussia | private nonprofit | 4,204 | 241 | — | — | 11 | 0 | — |
| Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine | Erie | private nonprofit | 4,117 | 4,107 | 14 | 0 | 33 | 0 | — |
| Bucknell University | Lewisburg | private nonprofit | 3,892 | 46 | 50 | 13 | — | — | $6.2m |
| York College of Pennsylvania | York | private nonprofit | 3,720 | 412 | 19 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Harrisburg University of Science and Technology | Harrisburg | private nonprofit | 3,558 | 2,840 | 2,503 | 2,407 | 30 | 17 | — |
| La Salle University | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 3,554 | 1,128 | 314 | 15 | — | — | — |
| Messiah University | Mechanicsburg | private nonprofit | 3,344 | 758 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College | Erie | public | 3,323 | 97 | 66 | 7 | — | — | — |
| Point Park University | Pittsburgh | private nonprofit | 3,299 | 976 | 115 | 25 | 246 | 0 | — |
| Holy Family University | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 3,148 | 702 | 127 | 0 | 43 | 0 | — |
| Arcadia University | Glenside | private nonprofit | 3,142 | 1,252 | 200 | 3 | 45 | 0 | $1.7m |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Abington | Abington | public | 3,095 | — | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 3,027 | 3,027 | 559 | 1 | — | — | $7.6m |
| Mount Aloysius College | Cresson | private nonprofit | 2,967 | 25 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |
| DeSales University | Center Valley | private nonprofit | 2,919 | 770 | 19 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Gettysburg College | Gettysburg | private nonprofit | 2,895 | 679 | — | — | — | — | $1.2m |
| Marywood University | Scranton | private nonprofit | 2,850 | 976 | 193 | 3 | 32 | 0 | — |
| Saint Francis University | Loretto | private nonprofit | 2,835 | 406 | 16 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Lafayette College | Easton | private nonprofit | 2,764 | — | — | — | — | — | $2.7m |
| Mercyhurst University | Erie | private nonprofit | 2,668 | 376 | 121 | 23 | — | — | — |
| Moravian University | Bethlehem | private nonprofit | 2,658 | 652 | 39 | 0 | — | — | — |
| La Roche University | Pittsburgh | private nonprofit | 2,618 | 318 | 61 | 51 | — | — | — |
| Alvernia University | Reading | private nonprofit | 2,485 | 435 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 5 | — |
| Butler County Community College | Butler | public | 2,468 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lancaster Bible College | Lancaster | private nonprofit | 2,455 | 677 | 19 | 0 | 63 | 0 | — |
| Immaculata University | Immaculata | private nonprofit | 2,407 | 878 | 226 | 4 | 238 | 2 | — |
| Grove City College | Grove City | private nonprofit | 2,394 | 29 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chatham University | Pittsburgh | private nonprofit | 2,319 | 812 | 489 | 13 | — | — | — |
| Carlow University | Pittsburgh | private nonprofit | 2,310 | 966 | 110 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Susquehanna University | Selinsgrove | private nonprofit | 2,247 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dickinson College | Carlisle | private nonprofit | 2,217 | 13 | — | — | — | — | $1.7m |
| Delaware Valley University | Doylestown | private nonprofit | 2,189 | 430 | 66 | 0 | 85 | 0 | — |
| Neumann University | Aston | private nonprofit | 2,171 | 476 | 30 | 0 | 84 | 0 | — |
| Gwynedd Mercy University | Gwynedd Valley | private nonprofit | 2,165 | 708 | 42 | 0 | 291 | 0 | — |
| Elizabethtown College | Elizabethtown | private nonprofit | 2,152 | 295 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Lebanon Valley College | Annville | private nonprofit | 2,142 | 432 | 77 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Misericordia University | Dallas | private nonprofit | 2,107 | 437 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Seton Hill University | Greensburg | private nonprofit | 1,984 | 387 | 17 | 5 | — | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Berks | Reading | public | 1,944 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — |
| King's College | Wilkes-Barre | private nonprofit | 1,932 | 342 | 11 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Franklin and Marshall College | Lancaster | private nonprofit | 1,911 | — | — | — | — | — | $4.8m |
| Lincoln University | Lincoln University | public | 1,848 | 131 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Muhlenberg College | Allentown | private nonprofit | 1,818 | 30 | 18 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Saint Joseph's University - Lancaster | Lancaster | private nonprofit | 1,770 | 122 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wilson College | Chambersburg | private nonprofit | 1,694 | 514 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bryn Mawr College | Bryn Mawr | private nonprofit | 1,666 | 317 | 40 | 0 | 39 | 2 | $6.3m |
| Albright College | Reading | private nonprofit | 1,652 | 324 | 39 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Swarthmore College | Swarthmore | private nonprofit | 1,644 | — | — | — | — | — | $6.1m |
| Strayer University-Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | private for-profit | 1,503 | 169 | 24 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Ursinus College | Collegeville | private nonprofit | 1,492 | — | — | — | — | — | $1.0m |
| Saint Vincent College | Latrobe | private nonprofit | 1,442 | 162 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Haverford College | Haverford | private nonprofit | 1,424 | — | — | — | — | — | $4.1m |
| Chestnut Hill College | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 1,402 | 430 | 325 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Waynesburg University | Waynesburg | private nonprofit | 1,315 | 227 | 30 | 0 | 19 | 0 | — |
| Juniata College | Huntingdon | private nonprofit | 1,292 | 80 | 45 | 3 | — | — | $1.2m |
| Geneva College | Beaver Falls | private nonprofit | 1,258 | 109 | 142 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Cedar Crest College | Allentown | private nonprofit | 1,248 | 362 | 35 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Westminster College | New Wilmington | private nonprofit | 1,203 | 48 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Washington & Jefferson College | Washington | private nonprofit | 1,162 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Salus University | Elkins Park | private nonprofit | 1,148 | 1,148 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 2 | — |
| Cairn University-Langhorne | Langhorne | private nonprofit | 1,056 | 201 | 93 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Keystone College | La Plume | private nonprofit | 1,051 | 73 | 5 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Westminster Theological Seminary | Glenside | private nonprofit | 1,031 | 1,031 | — | — | 30 | 6 | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Lehigh Valley | Center Valley | public | 954 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Thiel College | Greenville | private nonprofit | 920 | 101 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Peirce College | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 872 | 82 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Scranton | Dunmore | public | 838 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Central Penn College | Summerdale | private for-profit | 827 | 21 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rosemont College | Rosemont | private nonprofit | 777 | 293 | 88 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Cheyney University of Pennsylvania | Cheyney | public | 724 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State York | York | public | 707 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine | Scranton | private nonprofit | 649 | 586 | 447 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Mont Alto | Mont Alto | public | 588 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| University of Valley Forge | Phoenixville | private nonprofit | 573 | 75 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gratz College | Jenkintown | private nonprofit | 482 | 261 | 50 | 0 | 70 | 3 | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State New Kensington | New Kensington | public | 456 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Moore College of Art and Design | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 399 | 9 | 3 | 0 | — | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Wilkes-Barre | Dallas | public | 353 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Bryn Athyn College of the New Church | Bryn Athyn | private nonprofit | 285 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Great Valley | Malvern | public | 258 | 258 | 207 | 120 | — | — | — |
| United Lutheran Seminary | Gettysburg | private nonprofit | 258 | 258 | — | — | 5 | 3 | — |
| Trinity Anglican Seminary | Ambridge | private nonprofit | 227 | 227 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pittsburgh Theological Seminary | Pittsburgh | private nonprofit | 223 | 223 | — | — | 118 | 14 | — |
| Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary-Overbrook | Ambler | private nonprofit | 173 | 132 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Curtis Institute of Music | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 159 | 53 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 141 | 42 | — | — | — | — | — |
| International Institute for Restorative Practices | Bethlehem | private nonprofit | 135 | 135 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Won Institute of Graduate Studies | Warminster | private nonprofit | 112 | 112 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Saint Vincent Seminary | Latrobe | private nonprofit | 76 | 76 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lancaster Theological Seminary | Lancaster | private nonprofit | 61 | 61 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Missio Theological Seminary | Philadelphia | private nonprofit | 49 | 49 | 29 | 6 | — | — | — |
| Reconstructionist Rabbinical College | Wyncote | private nonprofit | 43 | 43 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Yeshivath Beth Moshe | Scranton | private nonprofit | 41 | 2 | — | — | 1 | 0 | — |
| Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius | Pittsburgh | private nonprofit | 35 | 35 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church | Oreland | private nonprofit | 12 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — |
Degrees are pooled over 2021–2025. Enrolment and federal money are the most recent year in the file. “Non-res” means a student here on a temporary visa, almost always F-1 or J-1. A green card holder is not counted in it.
How few institutions this is
Of the 126 institutions in Pennsylvania, 43 award a research doctorate at all, and the largest two award 36.8% of them. A state’s graduate pipeline is a much smaller thing than its list of colleges.
| Institution | Research doctorates | Non-resident | Share | Share of the state’s doctorates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pennsylvania | 3,290 | 972 | 29.5% | 19.4% |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 2,963 | 1,375 | 46.4% | 17.4% |
| University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 2,020 | 862 | 42.7% | 11.9% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 1,752 | 962 | 54.9% | 10.3% |
| Drexel University | 1,339 | 270 | 20.2% | 7.9% |
| Temple University | 1,109 | 344 | 31.0% | 6.5% |
| Lehigh University | 506 | 238 | 47.0% | 3.0% |
| Indiana University of Pennsylvania | 461 | 78 | 16.9% | 2.7% |
| Duquesne University | 447 | 109 | 24.4% | 2.6% |
| Gwynedd Mercy University | 291 | 0 | 0.0% | 1.7% |
| Widener University | 265 | 65 | 24.5% | 1.6% |
| Point Park University | 246 | 0 | 0.0% | 1.4% |
| Immaculata University | 238 | 2 | 0.8% | 1.4% |
| West Chester University of Pennsylvania | 213 | 2 | 0.9% | 1.3% |
| Wilkes University | 198 | 0 | 0.0% | 1.2% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | 178 | 24 | 13.5% | 1.0% |
| Villanova University | 149 | 52 | 34.9% | 0.9% |
| Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia | 143 | 20 | 14.0% | 0.8% |
| Robert Morris University | 119 | 9 | 7.6% | 0.7% |
| Pittsburgh Theological Seminary | 118 | 14 | 11.9% | 0.7% |
| Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania | 101 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.6% |
| Delaware Valley University | 85 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.5% |
| Neumann University | 84 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.5% |
| Eastern University | 72 | 4 | 5.6% | 0.4% |
| Gratz College | 70 | 3 | 4.3% | 0.4% |
| Lancaster Bible College | 63 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.4% |
| Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg | 46 | 13 | 28.3% | 0.3% |
| Arcadia University | 45 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.3% |
| Holy Family University | 43 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.3% |
| Gannon University | 42 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.2% |
| University of Scranton | 41 | 1 | 2.4% | 0.2% |
| Bryn Mawr College | 39 | 2 | 5.1% | 0.2% |
| Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine | 33 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.2% |
| Marywood University | 32 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.2% |
| Harrisburg University of Science and Technology | 30 | 17 | 56.7% | 0.2% |
| Westminster Theological Seminary | 30 | 6 | 20.0% | 0.2% |
| Alvernia University | 29 | 5 | 17.2% | 0.2% |
| Waynesburg University | 19 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| Salus University | 14 | 2 | 14.3% | 0.1% |
| American College of Financial Services | 11 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| United Lutheran Seminary | 5 | 3 | 60.0% | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania State University-World Campus | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Yeshivath Beth Moshe | 1 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
The foreign share of graduate students, where the survey reaches
The NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates asks institutions directly, and it covers 31 of the 126 institutions in Pennsylvania. It is a different measure from the degree counts above: enrolled students rather than degrees awarded.
| Institution | Doctoral students foreign | Master’s students foreign |
|---|---|---|
| Harrisburg University of Science and Technology | 89.1% | 96.4% |
| Villanova University | 59.6% | 23.7% |
| Lehigh University | 58.6% | 45.0% |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | 57.2% | 41.7% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 55.3% | 77.2% |
| Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia | 50.0% | 4.0% |
| University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus | 47.4% | 33.5% |
| Salus University | 45.5% | 11.4% |
| Temple University | 41.8% | 20.6% |
| Drexel University | 39.5% | 44.1% |
| University of Pennsylvania | 33.9% | 62.0% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | 33.3% | 43.3% |
| Duquesne University | 31.4% | 52.6% |
| Robert Morris University | 23.8% | 77.5% |
| Bryn Mawr College | 21.4% | —% |
| Indiana University of Pennsylvania | 18.8% | 9.3% |
| West Chester University of Pennsylvania | —% | 6.3% |
| Pennsylvania Western University | —% | 2.6% |
| Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania | —% | 4.5% |
| Eastern University | —% | 3.4% |
| Widener University | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania | —% | 3.9% |
| Wilkes University | —% | 16.7% |
| Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania | —% | 5.7% |
| Gannon University | —% | 95.3% |
| Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Bucknell University | —% | 43.3% |
| La Salle University | —% | 4.3% |
| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine | —% | 0.0% |
| Mercyhurst University | —% | 13.2% |
| Chatham University | —% | 2.0% |
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
The highest foreign share of doctoral students in the state, at 89.1%. It is not the largest institution here and it is not the one with the most federal money. Size and share are different questions, and a state page that ranked only by size would not show this.
What the state itself puts in
State appropriations per full-time-equivalent student, from the SHEEO finance survey, against the change in the foreign share of graduate enrolment over the same window.
| Measure | First year | Last year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| State appropriations per FTE student | $6,952 | $7,381 | +6.2% |
| Foreign share of graduate enrolment | 13.8% | 16.5% | +2.8 pts |
These two rows move for their own reasons. Nothing here shows that one caused the other, and the page does not say it did.
Department by department
The dissertation corpus reaches 4 institutions in this state, covering 97 departments. 40 of them are majority non-resident.
| Institution | Department | Doctorates | Non-resident | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 338 | 254 | 75.1% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Artificial Intelligence | 199 | 149 | 74.9% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Operations Research | 32 | 23 | 71.9% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Computational Biology | 20 | 13 | 65.0% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Computer Software Engineering | 17 | 11 | 64.7% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Mathematics, General | 49 | 30 | 61.2% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Statistics, General | 75 | 44 | 58.7% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Mechanical Engineering | 186 | 109 | 58.6% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Physics, General | 98 | 56 | 57.1% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Computational Mathematics | 16 | 9 | 56.2% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering | 146 | 80 | 54.8% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Civil Engineering, General | 77 | 42 | 54.5% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Computer Science | 175 | 95 | 54.3% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Chemistry, General | 111 | 60 | 54.1% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Materials Science | 141 | 74 | 52.5% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Chemical Engineering | 145 | 66 | 45.5% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Information Technology | 87 | 37 | 42.5% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Engineering, General | 122 | 47 | 38.5% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 56 | 19 | 33.9% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 67 | 22 | 32.8% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Computer and Information Sciences, Other | 28 | 8 | 28.6% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Behavioral Sciences | 20 | 3 | 15.0% |
| Carnegie Mellon | Psychology, General | 27 | 4 | 14.8% |
| Penn State | Petroleum Engineering | 102 | 88 | 86.3% |
| Penn State | Civil Engineering, General | 58 | 50 | 86.2% |
| Penn State | Computer Science | 121 | 101 | 83.5% |
| Penn State | Industrial Engineering | 86 | 66 | 76.7% |
| Penn State | Statistics, General | 73 | 55 | 75.3% |
| Penn State | Architectural Engineering | 40 | 30 | 75.0% |
| Penn State | Mathematics, General | 73 | 51 | 69.9% |
| Penn State | Agricultural Engineering | 26 | 18 | 69.2% |
| Penn State | Information Science/Studies | 87 | 60 | 69.0% |
| Penn State | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 153 | 102 | 66.7% |
| Penn State | Chemical Engineering | 106 | 68 | 64.2% |
| Penn State | Engineering Science | 73 | 45 | 61.6% |
| Penn State | Physics, General | 107 | 64 | 59.8% |
| Penn State | Mechanical Engineering | 157 | 91 | 58.0% |
| Penn State | Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 40 | 21 | 52.5% |
| Penn State | Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 38 | 18 | 47.4% |
| Penn State | Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Other | 65 | 30 | 46.2% |
| Penn State | Materials Engineering | 137 | 62 | 45.3% |
| Penn State | Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering, General | 49 | 21 | 42.9% |
| Penn State | Entomology | 38 | 15 | 39.5% |
| Penn State | Nuclear Engineering | 30 | 11 | 36.7% |
| Penn State | Educational Psychology | 22 | 8 | 36.4% |
| Penn State | Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology, General | 55 | 19 | 34.5% |
| Penn State | Biochemistry | 63 | 20 | 31.7% |
| Penn State | Animal Physiology | 16 | 5 | 31.2% |
| Penn State | Nutrition Sciences | 25 | 7 | 28.0% |
| Penn State | Geology/Earth Science, General | 59 | 16 | 27.1% |
| Penn State | Plant Pathology/Phytopathology | 15 | 4 | 26.7% |
| Penn State | Immunology | 15 | 4 | 26.7% |
| Penn State | Chemistry, General | 188 | 47 | 25.0% |
| Penn State | Astronomy | 34 | 8 | 23.5% |
| Penn State | Research and Experimental Psychology, Other | 25 | 3 | 12.0% |
| Penn State | Acoustics | 27 | 3 | 11.1% |
| Penn State | School Psychology | 25 | 2 | 8.0% |
| Penn State | Psychology, General | 101 | 8 | 7.9% |
| Penn State | Ecology | 41 | 3 | 7.3% |
| Penn State | Biomedical Sciences, General | 23 | 1 | 4.3% |
| U Penn | Applied Mathematics, General | 28 | 23 | 82.1% |
| U Penn | Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 95 | 71 | 74.7% |
| U Penn | Statistics, General | 44 | 28 | 63.6% |
| U Penn | Mathematics, General | 58 | 34 | 58.6% |
| U Penn | Computer and Information Sciences, General | 127 | 71 | 55.9% |
| U Penn | Mechanical Engineering | 84 | 45 | 53.6% |
| U Penn | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | 99 | 48 | 48.5% |
| U Penn | Materials Engineering | 71 | 34 | 47.9% |
| U Penn | Chemistry, General | 212 | 99 | 46.7% |
| U Penn | Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 54 | 23 | 42.6% |
| U Penn | Biostatistics | 46 | 19 | 41.3% |
| U Penn | Bioinformatics | 48 | 13 | 27.1% |
| U Penn | Psychology, General | 39 | 9 | 23.1% |
| U Penn | Physics, General | 136 | 29 | 21.3% |
| U Penn | Geology/Earth Science, General | 17 | 3 | 17.6% |
| U Penn | Research and Experimental Psychology, Other | 34 | 6 | 17.6% |
| U Penn | Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 133 | 23 | 17.3% |
| U Penn | Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology | 403 | 58 | 14.4% |
| U Penn | Epidemiology | 25 | 3 | 12.0% |
| U Penn | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 103 | 12 | 11.7% |
| U Penn | Immunology | 62 | 5 | 8.1% |
| U Penn | Pharmacology | 78 | 5 | 6.4% |
| U Penn | Neuroscience | 131 | 8 | 6.1% |
| Temple | Computer and Information Sciences, General | 68 | 57 | 83.8% |
| Temple | Physics, General | 69 | 43 | 62.3% |
| Temple | Engineering, General | 34 | 21 | 61.8% |
| Temple | Mathematics, General | 37 | 19 | 51.4% |
| Temple | Statistics, General | 39 | 19 | 48.7% |
| Temple | Chemistry, General | 120 | 54 | 45.0% |
| Temple | Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering | 25 | 10 | 40.0% |
| Temple | Biology/Biological Sciences, General | 43 | 8 | 18.6% |
| Temple | Biomedical Sciences, General | 108 | 17 | 15.7% |
| Temple | Research and Experimental Psychology, Other | 16 | 2 | 12.5% |
| Temple | Educational Psychology | 32 | 2 | 6.2% |
| Temple | Neuroscience | 26 | 1 | 3.8% |
| Temple | School Psychology | 36 | 1 | 2.8% |
| Temple | Psychology, General | 87 | 1 | 1.1% |
From the dissertation corpus, which is built from what universities publish about their own graduates. It covers the institutions on this site, not every institution in the state, so it is a floor.
What is not published for a state this size
Two of the measures this site uses elsewhere do not exist at this scale, and the reason is the same in both cases: the agency publishes a ranked extract rather than the whole file.
- Practical training is not published here. SEVP releases the top 100 and top 200 schools for OPT and STEM OPT, not every school. An institution outside those lists has no published figure at all. Its absence is a fact about the list, not about the institution, and it must never be read as a zero.
- Student visa counts are not published by state. DHS reports SEVIS records nationally and names a few states per region in its commentary. For most states it publishes a percentage change and no count, so the number of foreign students physically in a state cannot be read off the federal release.
- Enrolment is the measure that does exist. IPEDS asks every institution directly, which is why this page is built from it. It counts students enrolled, not visas issued, and the two are different questions.
Method and limits
- Non-resident means here on a temporary visa. IPEDS defines it as a person “who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely.” A green card holder is therefore never counted here. Neither is a refugee or an asylee. Those students are reported in the race and ethnicity categories alongside citizens. For students the category is overwhelmingly F-1 and J-1.
- It is not ethnicity and not country of origin. A US-born citizen of any background is never non-resident. The status is recorded when the student enrols, for the enrolment figures, and when the degree is awarded, for the degree counts. These files cannot be split any other way.
- Degrees are pooled over 2021–2025, because a single year at a small institution moves on one student.
- Enrolment and awards are different measures and will not agree. One counts people on a given day; the other counts degrees conferred over five years.
- Federal money is matched to a campus, and a system that reports centrally can carry money its branches spend.
- This page shows composition, not displacement. It records who received the degrees. It does not show that anyone was kept out, and nothing here should be read that way.
Built by scripts/build_state_pages.py from
institution_profiles.json,
state_funding_and_enrolment.json
and university_distribution.json.
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