Data

Mayo Clinic, Mayo Graduate School

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	41	28	29	26	31	34	26	36	25	41
Science and engineering	41	28	29	26	31	34	26	35	25	41
Biological and biomedical sciences	32	21	23	24	23	32	20	28	21	34
Biochemistry and biophysics	5	3	6	5	3	5	.	7	3	2
Biology and biomedical sciences, general	3	4	.	4	8	13	9	3	2	9
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	2	.	1
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	2
Genetics and genomics	1	1	2	2	1	1	.	.	.	1
Microbiology and immunology	8	8	7	5	6	5	4	4	9	8
Molecular biology	1	.	1	2	2	.	.	4	1	2
Neurobiology and neurosciences	6	2	1	.	3	3	1	4	4	3
Pharmacology and toxicology	4	1	3	2	.	1	.	.	.	2
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology	3	2	3	4	.	3	6	4	2	4
Engineering	5	4	2	2	5	1	6	3	4	5
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering	5	4	2	2	5	1	6	2	4	5
Electrical and computer engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Health sciences	4	3	3	.	3	1	.	4	.	2
Public health	.	.	.	.	2	.	.	1	.	1
Health sciences, other	4	3	3	.	1	1	.	3	.	1
Physical sciences	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physics	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Non-science and engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Education	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Teacher education and teaching fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.

NOTES:

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