Data

Ball State 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	35	23	26	29	33	29	36	25	34	32
Science and engineering	21	16	17	19	24	20	20	17	20	15
Agricultural sciences and natural resources	1	.	.	1	1	1	1	3	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	1	.	.	1	1	1	1	3	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	3	.	.	.	2	.	1	.	1	.
Biology and biomedical sciences, general	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology	.	.	.	.	2	.	.	.	1	.
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biology and biomedical sciences, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	.
Geological sciences	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Health sciences	4	.	1	1	1	3	2	2	3	1
Health sciences, other	4	.	1	1	1	3	2	2	3	1
Physical sciences	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Chemistry	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	9	16	16	14	19	14	13	11	16	13
Clinical psychology	.	.	.	3	3	1	.	1	.	1
Counseling and applied psychology	9	15	16	9	10	11	13	8	14	11
Research and experimental psychology	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	2	.
Psychology, other	.	1	.	2	5	2	.	2	.	1
Social sciences	3	.	.	2	.	2	3	1	.	1
Social sciences, other	3	.	.	2	.	2	3	1	.	1
Non-science and engineering	14	7	9	10	9	9	16	8	14	17
Education	10	7	8	8	5	7	9	4	7	11
Education leadership and administration	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Education research	5	4	5	7	3	5	6	3	4	7
Teacher education and teaching fields	1	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	3	3
Education, other	2	1	1	.	1	.	2	.	.	1
Humanities and arts	4	.	1	2	4	2	7	4	7	6
Letters	4	.	1	2	4	2	6	4	7	6
Foreign languages and literature	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.

NOTES:

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