Data

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

NOTES:

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