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Ph.D. acceptance rate of US grad schools

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:57 am
by yaskhn3
Hello everyone!

Due to the cut-throat competition in Ph.D. admissions at top grad schools, it would be great to have a list of acceptance rate of various schools like:

MIT
Princeton
Harvard
Stanford
UCB
Caltech
CMU etc.

If anyone has them or knows some source to find these, please help me out.

Thanks!

Re: Ph.D. acceptance rate of US grad schools

Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 4:20 pm
by djysyed
According to one of the professors at UCB, there were about 550 applicants, including roughly 300 strong ones, and only 30ish students were accepted from a pool of 300.

Re: Ph.D. acceptance rate of US grad schools

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:21 pm
by blahquaker
peterson's has data for some schools, but I don't know how reliable it is. for example, here is MIT

Re: Ph.D. acceptance rate of US grad schools

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 10:14 pm
by map
only 30ish students were accepted from a pool of 300.
Are you sure it's not around 30 students matriculated in the end? According to https://math.berkeley.edu/about there are 180 grad students, so if people take 5-6 years to graduate they would need near 100% yield to only admit 30 students.

I heard ~10% admit rate for a couple of the schools on your list.

Re: Ph.D. acceptance rate of US grad schools

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 11:28 pm
by djysyed
map wrote:[
Are you sure it's not around 30 students matriculated in the end? According to https://math.berkeley.edu/about there are 180 grad students, so if people take 5-6 years to graduate they would need near 100% yield to only admit 30 students.
I met this professor in his office when I was in the area at a relative's place and I remember him saying this. Hmm...maybe the 180 includes some masters students.