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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 236 208 193 186 204 187 184 138 173 143
  Science and engineering 193 172 149 145 159 157 153 115 141 123
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources 3 4 3 2 1 1 1 . 2 .
      Agricultural sciences . 1 2 . . 1 1 . 2 .
      Natural resources and conservation 3 3 1 2 1 . . . . .
    Biological and biomedical sciences 31 22 21 25 31 31 26 18 22 17
      Biochemistry and biophysics 7 4 1 2 8 8 6 3 3 .
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 14 4 5 4 5 4 6 . 1 4
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology . . . . 1 . . . . .
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy . . . . . . . . 1 2
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 4 7 7 9 8 8 7 7 7 7
      Genetics and genomics . . . . . . 1 . . 1
      Microbiology and immunology . . . . . 2 . . . 2
      Molecular biology . . 1 3 2 2 1 2 3 .
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 1 . 1 . 1 . . . . .
      Pharmacology and toxicology . . 2 . . 1 . . . .
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology . 1 1 . . 1 . . 1 .
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other 5 6 3 7 6 5 5 6 6 1
    Computer and information sciences 14 11 13 8 13 10 8 9 15 11
      Computer science 12 9 10 7 13 9 8 7 14 9
      Computer and information sciences, other 2 2 3 1 . 1 . 2 1 2
    Engineering 49 42 37 43 33 41 42 36 29 29
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 5 5 4 4 2 1 2 4 5 5
      Chemical and petroleum engineering . 1 . . . . . . . .
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 15 14 10 9 8 10 18 11 10 8
      Electrical and computer engineering 19 17 19 20 13 21 14 12 6 11
      Industrial engineering and operations research . . . . . . . 1 . .
      Materials and mining engineering 4 2 2 4 6 5 6 3 3 4
      Mechanical engineering 5 1 1 5 2 3 2 4 4 1
      Engineering, other 1 2 1 1 2 1 . 1 1 .
    Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences 13 4 6 5 7 4 3 6 5 8
      Geological sciences 10 1 3 2 3 1 2 1 3 4
      Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences 3 3 3 3 4 3 1 5 2 4
    Health sciences 13 13 8 6 14 13 13 5 13 6
      Nursing science 2 2 2 2 . 3 1 2 4 3
      Public health 11 11 6 4 14 9 12 2 9 3
      Health sciences, other . . . . . 1 . 1 . .
    Mathematics and statistics . 1 1 . . . . . . .
      Applied mathematics . . 1 . . . . . . .
      Mathematics and statistics, other . 1 . . . . . . . .
    Physical sciences 24 19 16 15 25 24 17 17 16 24
      Astronomy and astrophysics . . . . . . 1 . . .
      Chemistry 18 14 8 12 20 20 12 13 12 17
      Physics 6 5 8 3 5 4 4 4 4 7
    Psychology 20 25 21 15 7 10 13 11 21 11
      Clinical psychology 3 1 6 8 2 3 7 . 1 .
      Counseling and applied psychology 2 3 5 3 2 2 2 2 7 3
      Research and experimental psychology 13 18 7 2 3 3 2 8 11 6
      Psychology, other 2 3 3 2 . 2 2 1 2 2
    Social sciences 26 31 23 26 28 23 30 13 18 17
      Anthropology 3 4 5 6 3 1 2 1 4 4
      Economics 5 5 . 3 8 5 6 4 5 1
      Political science and government 8 4 2 2 4 2 9 1 4 2
      Public policy analysis . 2 . . 1 1 . 1 . .
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 1 . 3 . 1 3 1 1 2 2
      Social sciences, other 9 16 13 15 11 11 12 5 3 8
  Non-science and engineering 43 36 44 41 45 30 31 23 32 20
    Business 11 11 13 10 12 5 13 4 9 9
      Business 11 11 13 10 12 5 13 4 9 9
    Education 13 7 14 19 13 8 6 7 5 2
      Education research 5 7 12 16 11 7 2 3 5 2
      Teacher education and teaching fields 5 . . 2 2 1 4 3 . .
      Education, other 3 . 2 1 . . . 1 . .
    Humanities and arts 9 7 7 7 10 7 7 8 11 7
      Foreign languages and literature 5 4 5 . 6 2 2 2 9 2
      History 4 3 2 5 4 5 5 6 2 5
      Humanities and arts, other . . . 2 . . . . . .
    Other non-science and engineering 10 11 10 5 10 10 5 4 7 2
      Public administration and social services 9 10 9 5 10 10 5 4 7 2
      Non-science and engineering, other 1 1 1 . . . . . . .

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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