Percent of Black recipients of science and engineering master’s in 2001: 8.5 percent.

• Engineering: 5.4%
• Mathematics and statistics: 3.5%
• Computer sciences: 5.1%

(source: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics, special tabulations of U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Completions Survey, 1994-2001)
 

Top 10 schools from which African Americans graduated with engineering baccalaureates:

• NC A&T University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Tennessee State University
• Florida A&M University/Florida State
• Morgan State University
• Southern University
• Prairie View A&M University
• Tuskegee University
• North Carolina State University
• University of Michigan

(derived from Engineering Workforce Commission, available from the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering at www.nacme.org/images/factoids/08-aframer.gif)
 

First 15 Ph.D.s awarded to African Americans:

• Robert Tanner Freeman, Dentistry, Harvard University, 1867
• Edward Alexander Bouchet, Physics, Yale University, 1876
• Augustus Nathanial Lushington, Veterinarian, 1897
• Alfred O. Coffin, Bioscience, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1889
• Charles Henry Turner, Zoology, University of Chicago, 1907
• Julian Herman Lewis, Physiology, University of Chicago, 1915
• St. Elmo Brady, Chemistry, University of Illinois, 1916
• Ernest Everett Just, Zoology, University of Chicago, 1916
• Francis Cecil Sumner, Psychology, Clark University, 1920
• Elbert Frank Cox, Mathematics, Cornell University, 1925
• Roscoe Lewis McKinney, Anatomy, University of Chicago, 1931
• Inez Beverly Prosser, Educational Psychology, University of Cincinnati, 1933
• Ruth Ella Moore, Bacteriology, Ohio State University, 1933
• Ruth Howard, Psychology, University of Chicago, 1934
• Paul Bertau Cornley, Public Health, University of Michigan, 1934

(sources: Sammons, Vivian O. Blacks in Science and Education. (Washington, D.C.: Hemisphere Publishers), 1989. p.278-279; Carney Smith, Jessie, ed. Black First: 2,000 Years of Extraordinary Achievement. (Detroit, MI: Gale research), 1994)