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Number of earned doctorates, by trend major field of study of recipients: 2024–15
Fields 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
All fields 59 33 48 42 40 52 35 19 35 35
  Science and engineering 59 33 48 42 40 52 35 19 35 35
    Biological and biomedical sciences 34 15 24 24 21 23 21 8 21 18
      Biochemistry and biophysics 3 4 4 5 8 6 4 4 7 .
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 2 2 4 3 2 2 2 2 5 3
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 1 . . . 4 2 1 . 1 .
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy 4 . 3 1 . 2 7 . 4 3
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 1 . . 1 . . . . . .
      Genetics and genomics 1 . . . . . 1 . . .
      Microbiology and immunology 10 5 10 6 4 2 1 . 2 5
      Molecular biology 5 1 1 4 1 2 1 1 . .
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 5 2 2 2 2 6 3 1 1 3
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 2 1 . 2 . 1 1 . 1 1
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other . . . . . . . . . 3
    Health sciences . . . . . . 1 . . .
      Pharmaceutical sciences . . . . . . 1 . . .
    Physical sciences 25 18 23 17 19 29 13 11 14 17
      Chemistry 25 18 23 17 19 29 13 11 13 17
      Physics . . . . . . . . 1 .
    Psychology . . 1 1 . . . . . .
      Research and experimental psychology . . 1 1 . . . . . .

NOTES:
  • . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates

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