Data

Illinois 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	36	28	41	35	41	30	32	34	43	47
Science and engineering	12	14	19	17	16	13	15	8	13	12
Biological and biomedical sciences	7	.	8	3	4	3	6	2	3	5
Biochemistry and biophysics	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Biology and biomedical sciences, general	6	.	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	2
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology	.	.	1	1	1	.	.	.	.	2
Microbiology and immunology	1	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Molecular biology	.	.	1	.	1	.	2	1	1	1
Neurobiology and neurosciences	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.	1	.
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biology and biomedical sciences, other	.	.	1	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Engineering	.	7	2	7	.	.	.	.	.	.
Engineering, other	.	7	2	7	.	.	.	.	.	.
Health sciences	.	1	2	1	4	5	5	4	2	1
Nursing science	.	1	2	1	4	5	5	4	2	1
Mathematics and statistics	1	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	.	.
Mathematics and statistics, other	1	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	.	.
Psychology	4	4	7	5	7	3	3	1	7	6
Counseling and applied psychology	4	3	5	1	4	.	2	1	7	4
Psychology, other	.	1	2	4	3	3	1	.	.	2
Social sciences	.	2	.	1	.	2	.	1	1	.
Social sciences, other	.	2	.	1	.	2	.	1	1	.
Non-science and engineering	24	14	22	18	25	17	17	26	30	35
Education	16	10	19	12	17	11	7	14	19	24
Education leadership and administration	6	1	1	1	9	3	3	7	5	14
Education research	9	7	9	2	5	4	3	5	11	7
Teacher education and teaching fields	1	2	3	1	3	4	1	2	3	2
Education, other	.	.	6	8	.	.	.	.	.	1
Humanities and arts	8	4	3	6	8	6	10	12	11	11
Letters	8	4	3	6	8	5	10	12	10	11
Humanities and arts, other	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1	.

NOTES:

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