Data

Medical C. Wisconsin

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	42	39	26	37	32	32	32	28	24	27
Science and engineering	42	39	26	37	32	32	32	28	24	27
Biological and biomedical sciences	34	32	26	32	31	26	29	23	23	23
Biochemistry and biophysics	6	4	4	5	4	4	5	5	4	1
Biology and biomedical sciences, general	2	3	1	1	1	2	4	.	1	.
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology	4	1	1	5	1	1	1	2	.	1
Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy	2	1	1	4	5	5	4	7	5	2
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Genetics and genomics	.	1	1	1	.	.	.	.	2	.
Microbiology and immunology	10	6	8	5	7	11	8	1	4	7
Molecular biology	3	2	.	5	.	.	.	2	.	.
Neurobiology and neurosciences	3	3	2	2	3	.	1	1	3	2
Pharmacology and toxicology	.	1	1	1	.	.	.	3	1	1
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology	3	9	6	2	8	3	6	2	3	9
Biology and biomedical sciences, other	1	.	1	1	2	.	.	.	.	.
Engineering	3	1	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering	3	1	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Health sciences	4	5	.	4	.	5	1	4	1	3
Nursing science	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Public health	4	5	.	3	.	5	.	4	1	3
Health sciences, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Mathematics and statistics	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Statistics	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mathematics and statistics, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Physical sciences	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	1	.	1
Physics	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	1	.	1
Psychology	1	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Research and experimental psychology	1	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.

NOTES:

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