Data

Teachers C., Columbia U.

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	81	77	77	97	93	100	98	189	180	205
Science and engineering	18	13	20	18	14	14	9	57	58	62
Biological and biomedical sciences	1	.	.	.	.	3	2	6	2	.
Neurobiology and neurosciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	2	.
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Biology and biomedical sciences, other	1	.	.	.	.	3	1	5	.	.
Health sciences	13	10	12	15	6	7	4	12	11	15
Nursing science	.	1	1	1	.	.	1	.	3	1
Public health	12	9	10	10	1	5	1	4	2	11
Health sciences, other	1	.	1	4	5	2	2	8	6	3
Mathematics and statistics	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	1	.
Statistics	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	1	.
Psychology	1	.	1	1	.	1	1	26	34	33
Clinical psychology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	4	6	8
Counseling and applied psychology	1	.	.	1	.	1	.	18	14	20
Research and experimental psychology	.	.	1	.	.	.	1	4	13	4
Psychology, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1
Social sciences	3	3	7	1	8	3	2	13	10	14
Anthropology	.	.	1	.	.	1	.	7	4	6
Economics	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	2	3	4
Political science and government	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1
Sociology, demography, and population studies	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	2
Social sciences, other	3	3	5	1	8	2	2	4	2	1
Non-science and engineering	63	64	57	79	79	86	89	132	122	143
Business	4	2	3	1	2	1	.	.	.	5
Business	4	2	3	1	2	1	.	.	.	5
Education	52	61	49	69	74	81	86	129	119	136
Education leadership and administration	6	7	8	10	9	6	11	11	6	15
Education research	11	17	14	13	15	17	23	45	41	49
Teacher education and teaching fields	33	33	25	38	48	52	49	61	63	65
Education, other	2	4	2	8	2	6	3	12	9	7
Humanities and arts	6	.	4	4	2	1	.	1	3	2
Letters	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
History	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	1
Philosophy and religious studies	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Music and performing arts	3	.	2	3	2	.	.	.	3	.
Humanities and arts, other	2	.	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other non-science and engineering	1	1	1	5	1	3	3	2	.	.
Communication	1	1	.	.	1	3	2	2	.	.
Non-science and engineering, other	.	.	1	5	.	.	1	.	.	.

NOTES:

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