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Exploring The Baccalaureate Origin Of Domestic Ph.D. Students In Computing Fields, Susanne Hambrusch, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Fen Zhao, David Rabson, Amy Csizmar Dalal, Ed Fox, Charles Isbell, Valerie Taylor

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Increasing the number of US students entering graduate school and receiving a Ph.D. in computer science is a goal as well as a challenge for many US Ph.D. granting institutions. Although the total computer science Ph.D. production in the U.S. has doubled between 2000 and 2010 (Figure 1), the fraction of domestic students receiving a Ph.D. from U.S. graduate programs has been below 50% since 2003 (Figure 2).

The goal of the Pipeline Project of CRA-E (PiPE) is to better understand the pipeline of US citizens and Permanent Residents (henceforth termed domestic students ) who apply, matriculate, and graduate from …