New data from the Survey of Earned Doctorates from the National Science Foundation provides information on the universities that awarded the most doctorates to women in 2025.
Walden University, headquartered in Minneapolis but conducts most of its business online, awarded 523 doctorates to women in 2025. This was the largest number of doctoral degrees awarded to women by any university in the United States. That year, 167 men earned doctorates from Walden University.
Of the 50 universities in the United States that awarded the most doctorates in 2025, only 11 universities awarded more doctorates to women than to men: Walden University, the University of Washington, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Davis, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Georgia, the University of Arizona, Rutgers University in New Jersey, Florida State University, Boston University, and Texas Tech University.
In 2025, the University of Michigan awarded 919 doctoral degrees. Of these, 418, or 45.5 percent, went to women. The University of Wisconsin-Madison awarded 400 doctorates to women in 2025.
The following universities granted more than 300 doctoral degrees to women in 2025:
- Pennsylvania State University, 367
- University of Texas at Austin, 362
- University of Washington, 357
- Harvard University, 336
- Ohio State University, 336
- University of Minnesota, 336
- University of California, Los Angeles, 330
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champlain, 329
- Columbia University, 321
- University of California, Berkeley, 317
- Texas A&M University, 312
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 310
- University of California, Davis, 305
- Cornell University, 302
- Stanford University, 301