This study aimed to describe some characteristics of doctoral dissertations in education by Saudi students who graduated from American universities between the years 1969-1985 in terms of the number of dissertations written, type of academic degree awarded, universities that granted the degree, dissertation length in pages, authors' gender, topic of the dissertation, the courses examined, subjects' educational level (university, high school, middle school, primary school and so on), the title, the research problem, the research methodology used, the sample, statistical analysis methods, and the results. The results of the analysis revealed the number of women holding a doctoral degree in the time period under study was five. Most of the dissertations were completed at Michigan State University, the University of Northern Colorado, and then Indiana University. The typical dissertation is 201 pages long. More than half of the dissertations focused on four specializations: higher education, curriculum and instruction, educational administration, and science education; 35.71% of the dissertations focused on the university level; 92.47% dealt with traditional (old) topics; and 21.43% of the dissertations titles had good writing style and content; 68.62% of the dissertations were descriptive; 23.85% were correlational; 7.53% were causal, while 4.6% only were experimental. The questionnaire was used in 66.49% of the dissertations. The study recommended that doctoral dissertations be analyzed every every five years or so to find out the research trends and characteristics in them.