Data

Columbia U. in the City of New York

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 615 606 577 585 673 573 659 481 500 474
  Science and engineering 435 469 445 421 457 407 488 369 359 338
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources . 3 4 6 3 2 1 2 2 2
      Agricultural sciences . . 1 . . . . . 1 .
      Natural resources and conservation . 3 3 6 3 2 1 2 1 2
    Biological and biomedical sciences 119 122 112 100 106 104 105 95 84 85
      Biochemistry and biophysics 4 3 3 2 4 8 7 6 2 5
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 16 14 15 13 17 19 16 11 10 4
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 14 15 13 17 18 16 16 5 7 13
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy 4 4 6 6 9 4 5 6 4 14
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 20 26 17 19 15 11 15 13 14 14
      Genetics and genomics 5 11 4 4 6 7 3 10 1 2
      Microbiology and immunology 9 6 10 4 5 6 6 5 15 1
      Molecular biology 9 5 6 10 2 3 2 2 3 5
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 26 22 27 18 23 18 19 23 20 15
      Pharmacology and toxicology 1 6 2 . . 3 3 5 3 1
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 8 6 6 4 1 3 10 6 4 8
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other 3 4 3 3 6 6 3 3 1 3
    Computer and information sciences 26 22 11 23 20 19 22 19 25 14
      Computer science 22 20 10 18 20 18 21 18 22 14
      Computer and information sciences, other 4 2 1 5 . 1 1 1 3 .
    Engineering 73 108 85 77 97 79 83 86 73 68
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering 1 1 . . . . . 1 . .
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 24 23 18 17 16 19 14 15 18 20
      Chemical and petroleum engineering 10 15 9 8 9 9 9 9 4 4
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 5 15 7 5 15 13 12 13 9 8
      Electrical and computer engineering 15 18 18 18 27 15 21 25 15 14
      Industrial engineering and operations research 5 14 12 9 14 11 8 7 6 5
      Materials and mining engineering 2 5 3 4 2 2 3 1 7 1
      Mechanical engineering 7 12 11 9 11 5 11 8 10 11
      Engineering, other 4 5 7 7 3 5 5 7 4 5
    Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences 14 18 12 19 22 15 19 5 16 10
      Geological sciences 8 10 9 13 12 5 12 4 13 6
      Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences 6 8 3 6 10 10 7 1 3 4
    Health sciences 26 15 20 18 14 20 26 20 17 13
      Nursing science 7 5 3 6 5 5 8 7 8 4
      Public health 7 8 13 10 6 9 10 10 8 9
      Health sciences, other 12 2 4 2 3 6 8 3 1 .
    Mathematics and statistics 18 29 22 28 27 20 24 20 25 20
      Applied mathematics 2 5 2 5 2 4 2 3 2 5
      Mathematics 2 2 1 3 5 7 10 7 5 8
      Statistics 8 12 9 10 9 6 10 6 4 5
      Mathematics and statistics, other 6 10 10 10 11 3 2 4 14 2
    Physical sciences 35 41 64 41 56 49 59 52 57 46
      Astronomy and astrophysics 7 6 11 6 5 10 7 8 6 6
      Chemistry 10 13 24 16 29 19 18 17 25 21
      Physics 18 22 29 19 22 20 34 27 26 19
    Psychology 45 33 39 39 36 42 52 11 2 6
      Clinical psychology 9 9 8 12 11 10 12 3 . .
      Counseling and applied psychology 18 13 16 16 13 13 21 3 . .
      Research and experimental psychology 17 9 11 7 4 14 17 3 2 4
      Psychology, other 1 2 4 4 8 5 2 2 . 2
    Social sciences 79 78 76 70 76 57 97 59 58 74
      Anthropology 13 11 8 11 8 11 16 9 10 10
      Economics 23 30 26 24 31 15 36 20 17 23
      Political science and government 14 8 18 10 15 14 21 14 16 22
      Public policy analysis . 1 . . . 1 . 1 . 3
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 11 8 8 6 13 5 13 9 5 6
      Social sciences, other 18 20 16 19 9 11 11 6 10 10
  Non-science and engineering 180 137 132 164 216 166 171 112 141 136
    Business 14 20 10 22 17 13 20 16 18 12
      Business 14 20 10 22 17 13 20 16 18 12
    Education 41 26 35 24 53 40 44 2 . .
      Education leadership and administration 1 . 1 1 2 1 1 . . .
      Education research 15 9 16 10 19 16 18 1 . .
      Teacher education and teaching fields 18 12 15 12 30 20 22 1 . .
      Education, other 7 5 3 1 2 3 3 . . .
    Humanities and arts 106 77 78 103 125 98 98 89 111 113
      Letters 17 19 13 20 19 16 21 11 20 23
      Foreign languages and literature 16 7 13 12 27 14 17 13 18 19
      History 26 20 23 27 27 27 23 29 27 26
      Philosophy and religious studies 11 10 10 16 13 11 13 9 13 12
      Music and performing arts 18 12 7 16 18 9 11 10 9 15
      Humanities and arts, other 18 9 12 12 21 21 13 17 24 18
    Other non-science and engineering 19 14 9 15 21 15 9 5 12 11
      Communication 3 2 2 4 3 5 2 2 4 2
      Public administration and social services 9 6 3 6 12 7 5 2 5 6
      Non-science and engineering, other 7 6 4 5 6 3 2 1 3 3

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

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates

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