This study was designed to identify doctoral programs in psychology that produced the most mentors and to assess the quality of these programs as rated in past research. Mentor was defined as dissertation supervisor. Samples of doctoral recipients were selected from the 1970, 1980, and 1989–1991 Dissertation Abstracts International. We selected every 10th entry for a total of 875 recipients, for whom 851 dissertation supervisors were identified. The programs producing the supervisors and the supervisors’ years of graduation were also identified. The 25 programs producing the most supervisors accounted for almost 60% of the recipients. These programs tended to be among the oldest in American psychology and among the programs rated highest in quality in studies reported over many years and using various measures of quality. The proportion of women among mentors increased but not as rapidly as the proportion of women among doctoral recipients.
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