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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 510 531 507 423 426 455 507 495 476 492
  Science and engineering 479 484 482 389 403 430 467 461 435 460
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources 2 2 . 1 . . . 1 1 1
      Agricultural sciences . . . 1 . . . . . .
      Natural resources and conservation 2 2 . . . . . 1 1 1
    Biological and biomedical sciences 159 187 156 151 173 158 178 172 166 178
      Biochemistry and biophysics 28 26 18 24 22 17 23 21 23 24
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 20 22 10 8 14 11 11 19 19 13
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 12 10 22 8 11 9 8 9 14 9
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy 1 4 2 4 3 13 5 8 11 11
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 18 22 17 16 19 20 29 14 19 24
      Genetics and genomics 7 12 14 13 18 9 15 9 9 9
      Microbiology and immunology 18 20 17 15 21 22 18 18 16 24
      Molecular biology 17 19 11 13 12 14 14 10 10 12
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 20 16 19 26 28 18 25 22 23 18
      Pharmacology and toxicology 4 10 6 3 9 6 7 14 4 8
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 11 21 18 19 14 14 21 25 11 20
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other 3 5 2 2 2 5 2 3 7 6
    Computer and information sciences 29 35 33 24 16 20 19 16 19 4
      Computer science 21 25 21 18 16 19 19 16 18 4
      Computer and information sciences, other 8 10 12 6 . 1 . . 1 .
    Engineering 122 98 128 81 66 81 99 93 78 93
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering 2 2 . . . . . . . 1
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 31 26 41 16 17 25 29 37 31 39
      Chemical and petroleum engineering 29 16 22 17 6 11 12 7 10 7
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 10 16 8 11 7 6 17 11 6 11
      Electrical and computer engineering 14 18 22 11 13 6 12 15 8 15
      Industrial engineering and operations research 3 . 1 1 1 4 . . 1 .
      Materials and mining engineering 12 4 14 6 6 8 9 13 9 9
      Mechanical engineering 14 14 17 17 16 18 18 10 13 11
      Engineering, other 7 2 3 2 . 3 2 . . .
    Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences 9 6 8 2 7 6 6 10 2 3
      Geological sciences 7 1 1 1 5 2 5 6 1 2
      Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences 2 5 7 1 2 4 1 4 1 1
    Health sciences 60 48 52 45 62 64 66 70 60 82
      Nursing science 16 5 10 6 6 16 9 5 4 5
      Public health 36 37 32 35 50 34 55 61 49 68
      Health sciences, other 8 6 10 4 6 14 2 4 7 9
    Mathematics and statistics 14 21 15 11 11 9 11 9 15 11
      Applied mathematics 4 7 4 1 5 3 2 1 5 4
      Mathematics 1 . . . 3 1 3 1 . 1
      Statistics . 5 4 4 . 2 1 4 3 .
      Mathematics and statistics, other 9 9 7 6 3 3 5 3 7 6
    Physical sciences 35 47 44 31 36 48 38 41 37 33
      Astronomy and astrophysics 7 9 12 7 7 7 14 9 5 4
      Chemistry 21 31 24 15 15 25 16 21 18 12
      Physics 7 7 8 9 14 16 8 11 14 17
    Psychology 8 11 10 13 6 8 1 6 14 6
      Counseling and applied psychology 2 . . 1 1 . . . . 1
      Research and experimental psychology 6 11 10 10 5 7 1 6 11 5
      Psychology, other . . . 2 . 1 . . 3 .
    Social sciences 41 29 36 30 26 36 49 43 43 49
      Anthropology 4 2 4 5 3 5 5 6 2 3
      Economics 8 9 6 5 7 9 11 12 7 11
      Political science and government 8 7 7 4 5 5 10 9 11 17
      Public policy analysis 3 3 4 5 1 3 5 2 7 5
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 3 5 3 5 4 4 6 1 2 8
      Social sciences, other 15 3 12 6 6 10 12 13 14 5
  Non-science and engineering 31 47 25 34 23 25 40 34 41 32
    Business . 1 1 . . . . . 1 .
      Business . 1 1 . . . . . 1 .
    Education . . . . . . . . 2 .
      Education research . . . . . . . . 2 .
      Education, other . . . . . . . . . .
    Humanities and arts 31 44 24 33 23 25 40 34 37 32
      Letters 7 13 8 9 3 5 8 4 9 9
      Foreign languages and literature 3 6 5 7 1 5 8 8 9 4
      History 9 16 5 11 8 8 9 15 10 13
      Philosophy and religious studies 5 4 3 1 5 4 9 2 3 4
      Humanities and arts, other 7 5 3 5 6 3 6 5 6 2
    Other non-science and engineering . 2 . 1 . . . . 1 .
      Communication . . . . . . . . 1 .
      Non-science and engineering, other . 2 . 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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