2004-2014年中国高等教育学会组织开展了10届“高等教育学优秀博士学位论文”评选。通过对论文评选的基本情况、获奖博士学位论文的研究领域、研究方法、研究主题、来源学校及指导教师等情况分析发现:在高等教育学优秀博士学位论文中比较高等教育研究比重最大;研究方法呈现出多样化和综合化等特点;形成了以厦门大学、北京大学、华中科技大学、华东师范大学等为核心的高等教育学研究集群;指导教师结构在不断变化,形成了老一辈及中青年学者有序结合的良性发展局面。 2004-2014 China Institute of Higher Education organized the 10th “Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Higher Education”. Through the analysis of the basic situation of the thesis, the research fields, research methods, research topics, schools of origin and the guidance of the teachers who received the doctoral dissertations, it is found that the proportion of higher education research is the highest in the doctoral dissertations of higher education; Showing diversified and integrated characteristics; formed a cluster of higher education research centering on Xiamen University, Peking University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, East China Normal University, etc .; the structure of the instructor is constantly changing, forming the older generation and middle school Youth academics combine the benign development of the situation.