Women now earn more Ph.D.s than men, the Council of Graduate Schools announced in its annual report last month. The trend has yet to reach Princeton, where there are still three men for every two women.
Of the students earning doctorates in the 2008-09 academic year, the latest year covered by the report, 28,962 were women and 28,469 were men.
The number of women earning doctorates increased at a greater rate than men across all types of degree-granting institutions. The number of women earning doctorates overall increased by 6.3 percent over the 2007-08 year, while the number of men increased by only 1 percent. At private not-for-profit schools, the number increased by 8.9 percent, compared to 4.7 percent for men. Public schools conferred 1 percent fewer degrees to men but increased the degrees they gave to women by 3.6 percent.
Perhaps most striking is the explosion in enrollment at private for-profit institutions, at which the number of men earning graduate degrees increased 26.6 percent over the past year, compared to 40.7 percent growth for women.
Girls have long outperformed boys in K-12 testing and have been increasing their numbers at every level of academia for decades. Women now comprise roughly 60 percent of all students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs.
Princeton has yet to reach par with the national norm. While there is a 50-50 gender split among undergraduates, men still outnumber women at the Graduate School. Furthermore, recent applicant pools suggest that this trend is unlikely to carry over to Princeton any time soon, especially since graduate students typically take five to eight years to earn doctoral degrees.
Men made up 62 percent of applicants to master’s and doctoral programs at the University for the 2010-11 academic year and 63 percent of admitted students.
One reason that may explain Princeton’s graduate school demographics is the large size of its engineering school, which accounted for 21 percent of graduate enrollment during the 2009-10 year and is predominantly male — 72 percent of graduate students at the engineering school are men.
That figure, however, is below the national average of 80 percent, which has also reflected the decline in male enrollment. While men earned 5.1 percent more engineering doctorate degrees than they did the year before, women earned 7.7 percent more.
The CGS report also showed an increase in women’s graduate enrollment in several other disciplines.
In the health sciences, women have increased their attendance at a rate of 14 percent per year over the past decade and now earn 70 percent of health science doctorates.
Women also increased their presence in doctorate programs at a faster rate in biological and agricultural sciences, business, physical and earth sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.
Men, meanwhile, had their ranks grow faster than women only in the mathematics and computer science and the public administration and services categories. Though the number of doctorates in the arts and humanities decreased for both men and women, the number of men decreased at a slower rate.
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