OSU Graduate and Postdoc Programs against its Benchmark Institutions

Colorcoding. Florida and Maryland were added about 2007 while Texas was removed (as having no medical school).

Institution that have comparable performance in graduate and postdoc mentoring are Michigan and Washington.

[a] NSF: Graduate Students and Postdocs in Science and Engineering: Fall 2005 . See Table 48. GS in science, engineering and health fields ranked by 2005 graduate student total: 1998-2005. (Top school: U Florida 6,918)

[b] NSF: Graduate Students and Postdocs in Science and Engineering: Fall 2009 Table 68 Graduate Students and Postdocs in Science and Engineering: Fall 2009

[c] NSF see [a]. See Table 51 Postdoctoral appointees by area of study ranked by number of appointees. Ranking includes health fields (not given here). [Top school are Harvard (4,384), John Hopkins (1,442) and Standford ((1,094).]

[d] NSF: see [b], See Table 71 postdoctoral appointee by field, 2009 [Top schools are Harvard (5,594), Standford (1,590), John Hopkins (1,570), UC-Berkeley (1,361), UC-SF (1,320), Yale (1,195), MIT (1,193).. Between '05 & '09, Berkeley jumped 487, UCSF 317, Yale 183, MIT 342. Among benchmark in 2009 Mich, Wash, Minn, and Wisc crunch up below UCLA.]