Data

American 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	48	47	52	36	45	42	42	69	51	58
Science and engineering	33	37	35	25	32	30	33	55	40	44
Agricultural sciences and natural resources	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1	.
Agricultural sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Natural resources and conservation	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	2	1	2	2	3	.	1	1	.	3
Neurobiology and neurosciences	2	1	2	2	3	.	1	1	.	3
Computer and information sciences	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences, other	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Health sciences	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Public health	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Chemistry	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Psychology	5	11	6	7	8	6	9	10	13	16
Clinical psychology	2	8	5	3	7	3	5	6	7	10
Counseling and applied psychology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Research and experimental psychology	3	3	1	4	1	3	4	4	6	5
Psychology, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Social sciences	26	24	27	15	21	22	23	44	26	25
Anthropology	1	.	4	1	1	2	3	13	4	7
Economics	7	9	15	7	10	16	12	9	13	10
Political science and government	2	2	3	3	2	1	2	5	2	1
Public policy analysis	3	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Social sciences, other	13	11	5	4	8	3	6	17	6	7
Non-science and engineering	15	10	17	11	13	12	9	14	11	14
Education	1	.	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Education research	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Teacher education and teaching fields	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Education, other	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Humanities and arts	6	4	7	4	5	5	1	4	5	4
History	6	4	6	4	5	5	1	3	4	4
Philosophy and religious studies	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Humanities and arts, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.
Other non-science and engineering	8	6	8	7	8	7	8	10	6	10
Communication	3	5	1	3	5	3	3	4	2	2
Public administration and social services	5	1	7	4	2	4	5	6	4	8
Non-science and engineering, other	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.

NOTES:

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