Footnotes

All ethnicity tables: "Native American" includes Alaskan natives; "Asian" includes people originating from the Pacific Islands, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands, Samoa, India and Vietnam; "white" includes people originating from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

All tables with rankings: Statistics sometimes are given according to departmental rank. Schools are ranked only if they offer a CS degree. Those that only offer CE degrees are not ranked and statistics are given on a separate line, apart from the rankings. In Table 1, the "Ph.D.s Produced" column shows the number of CS and CE degrees produced throughout the rankings. While CE degrees are mixed into all rank categories, there are no CS degrees in the CE category.

*Totals do not match: The reader may find that totals from certain tables do not equal each other, even though theoretically, they should. These discrepancies stem from inconsistencies in the way departments answered different questions. We tried to minimize this by calling departments that provided inconsistent answers. The horizontal and vertical totals in Table 5 do not equal each other because many departments could not tell us the specialty area of the Ph.D.s.

Nonresident faculty: A small percentage of faculty were nonresident aliens when they were hired to work in fiscal 1994-95. In many cases, these new employees were gaining residency based on their new employment prospects. All faculty tables: The survey makes no distinction between faculty specializing in CS versus CE programs. Although we tried to minimize inclusion of any faculty in electrical engineering, there may be a few who slipped through.