Data

American U.

Number of earned doctorates, by trend major field of study of recipients: 2023–14
Fields	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
All fields	47	52	36	45	42	42	69	51	58	52
Science and engineering	37	35	25	32	30	33	55	40	44	39
Agricultural sciences and natural resources	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1	.	.
Agricultural sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	1	2	2	3	.	1	1	.	3	1
Neurobiology and neurosciences	1	2	2	3	.	1	1	.	3	1
Computer and information sciences	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences, other	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Chemistry	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	11	6	7	8	6	9	10	13	16	7
Clinical psychology	8	5	3	7	3	5	6	7	10	5
Counseling and applied psychology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Research and experimental psychology	3	1	4	1	3	4	4	6	5	.
Psychology, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1
Social sciences	25	27	15	21	22	23	44	26	25	31
Anthropology	.	4	1	1	2	3	13	4	7	6
Economics	10	15	7	10	16	12	9	13	10	7
Political science and government	2	3	3	2	1	2	5	2	1	5
Public policy analysis	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	1
Sociology, demography, and population studies	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Social sciences, other	11	5	4	8	3	6	17	6	7	12
Non-science and engineering	10	17	11	13	12	9	14	11	14	13
Education	.	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Education research	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Teacher education and teaching fields	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Education, other	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Humanities and arts	4	7	4	5	5	1	4	5	4	7
History	4	6	4	5	5	1	3	4	4	6
Philosophy and religious studies	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Humanities and arts, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.	.
Other non-science and engineering	6	8	7	8	7	8	10	6	10	6
Communication	5	1	3	5	3	3	4	2	2	1
Public administration and social services	1	7	4	2	4	5	6	4	8	4
Non-science and engineering, other	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	1

NOTES:

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