Rochester Scholars: The Next Generation

As Rochester awarded a milestone 7,000th Ph.D. in May, an in-house study is providing new evidence that University-trained scholars are making their marks in academe.

The survey, released by Bruce Jacobs, University dean of graduate studies, shows that more than 350 graduates now teach in the country's top universities, colleges, and doctoral programs.

According to the study, about 220 graduates are full or associate professors in the nation's top programs as defined by U.S. News & World Report and the National Research Council.

About 45 Rochester graduates hold named chairs at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Cal Tech, and Duke, among others.

"Given the fact that half of our Ph.D.s were granted relatively recently (in the 1980s and 1990s), the presence of Rochester graduates in the higher echelons of academe is most impressive," Jacobs says.

The University awarded its first Ph.D. in 1925.

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