Data

Georgia Institute of Technology

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 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

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