CSULB
graduates No. 1 in earning
Ph.D.’s
By
Patrick Creaven
Daily Forty-Niner
Sports Editor
Between 1995-2004, more Cal State Long Beach graduates have a Dr. in front
of their name than any other master’s university in the country.
Since 1995, 535 CSULB graduates continued their studies and earned a doctorate
at a different university, according to the National Science Foundation study
released this spring.
Cal State Northridge was second with 560 doctorates and San Francisco State
with 555.
One of the reasons for the success of CSULB students after they leave Long
Beach can be attributed to the intensive research offered in some of the master’s
programs.
In the physiology department, students are put into a specific program if their
goal is to someday earn their doctorate. Currently, there are 75 students in
the program.
“Our program gives students a chance to do a
lot of research and to work with their professors on their thesis,” said
Physiology Graduate Adviser Diane Roe. “We make sure our students are ready
to continue in school if they want to.”
The physiology department has a long tradition of having graduates go on and
have successful career in their fields.
Sonia Ancoli-Israel earned her physiology master’s from CSULB in 1974
before she went on to get her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Francisco.
Ancoli-Israel is now one of the leading experts on the study of sleep in country
and is author of the book “All I Want is a Good Night’s Sleep.”
“What I learned at Long Beach was a love to ask questions and to find answers,” Ancoli-Israel
said.
The success of 49er graduates earning their doctorates reinforces The Beach’s “America’s
Best Colleges” listing from U.S. News and World Report, which has named
CSULB one of top three public master’s universities in the West the past
two years.
The success of CSULB graduates was reported in the “Survey of Earned
Doctorates,” which is an annual census conducted by the National Opinion
Research Center at the University of Chicago on behalf of the National Science
Foundation, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Education, National
Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Department of Agriculture and NASA.
The report excludes certain professional degrees in health care and law.
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