Data

Georgia Institute of Technology
Fields | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
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All fields | 550 | 531 | 560 | 563 | 512 | 503 | 512 | 503 | 531 | 526 |
Science and engineering | 530 | 512 | 540 | 536 | 491 | 481 | 499 | 479 | 501 | 508 |
Agricultural sciences and natural resources | 1 | . | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | . | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 31 | 38 | 36 | 25 | 21 | 28 | 25 | 17 | 28 | 23 |
Biochemistry and biophysics | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Biology and biomedical sciences, general | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | . |
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology | 9 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | . | 2 | 1 |
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology | 3 | 2 | 1 | . | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | . | 2 |
Genetics and genomics | . | . | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | . | 1 | . |
Microbiology and immunology | . | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Molecular biology | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
Neurobiology and neurosciences | 3 | 3 | 1 | . | 1 | 2 | 1 | . | 2 | 3 |
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology | 2 | 2 | 2 | . | . | 1 | 3 | . | 5 | 2 |
Biology and biomedical sciences, other | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | . | 2 | 3 |
Computer and information sciences | 75 | 56 | 43 | 66 | 51 | 42 | 37 | 32 | 54 | 43 |
Computer science | 50 | 31 | 30 | 50 | 45 | 38 | 31 | 26 | 50 | 36 |
Computer and information sciences, other | 25 | 25 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 |
Engineering | 323 | 314 | 351 | 359 | 322 | 296 | 323 | 341 | 324 | 353 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 46 | 35 | 46 | 26 | 28 | 40 | 40 | 46 | 27 | 35 |
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 45 | 28 | 36 | 30 | 35 | 25 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 29 |
Chemical and petroleum engineering | 31 | 25 | 22 | 39 | 23 | 26 | 33 | 35 | 35 | 44 |
Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering | 24 | 23 | 23 | 32 | 38 | 37 | 30 | 29 | 31 | 42 |
Electrical and computer engineering | 66 | 74 | 87 | 86 | 75 | 73 | 83 | 87 | 80 | 104 |
Industrial engineering and operations research | 24 | 25 | 30 | 30 | 19 | 17 | 24 | 24 | 17 | 21 |
Materials and mining engineering | 16 | 37 | 21 | 40 | 33 | 23 | 25 | 20 | 29 | 19 |
Mechanical engineering | 56 | 49 | 62 | 59 | 56 | 50 | 46 | 57 | 58 | 54 |
Engineering, other | 15 | 18 | 24 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 5 |
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 14 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 6 |
Geological sciences | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences | 9 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
Health sciences | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Health sciences, other | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Mathematics and statistics | 29 | 24 | 20 | 18 | 20 | 16 | 22 | 9 | 11 | 19 |
Applied mathematics | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Mathematics | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Statistics | 3 | . | 2 | 3 | . | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Mathematics and statistics, other | 16 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
Physical sciences | 40 | 43 | 53 | 46 | 39 | 65 | 48 | 42 | 51 | 39 |
Astronomy and astrophysics | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | . | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Chemistry | 21 | 22 | 28 | 26 | 14 | 39 | 28 | 21 | 24 | 22 |
Physics | 16 | 17 | 21 | 16 | 25 | 24 | 14 | 18 | 25 | 16 |
Psychology | 6 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
Counseling and applied psychology | 2 | . | . | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Research and experimental psychology | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Psychology, other | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
Social sciences | 9 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 18 | 12 | 14 |
Economics | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Public policy analysis | 2 | 2 | 4 | . | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 1 | . | . | 2 | . | 1 | . | . | . | 2 |
Social sciences, other | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 3 |
Non-science and engineering | 20 | 19 | 20 | 27 | 21 | 22 | 13 | 24 | 30 | 18 |
Business | 10 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 10 |
Business | 10 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 10 |
Education | 1 | . | 2 | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | 2 |
Education leadership and administration | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . |
Education research | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | 2 |
Teacher education and teaching fields | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Humanities and arts | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
History | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . |
Music and performing arts | . | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | . | . | . |
Humanities and arts, other | 1 | 2 | . | 1 | . | 3 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Other non-science and engineering | 8 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 14 | 5 |
Communication | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Public administration and social services | . | . | 2 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Non-science and engineering, other | 6 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 8 | 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