Data

Medical U. South Carolina

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	22	34	29	35	37	39	57	25	40	33
Science and engineering	22	34	29	35	37	39	57	25	39	33
Biological and biomedical sciences	19	28	23	28	25	31	34	17	24	32
Biochemistry and biophysics	3	1	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	.
Biology and biomedical sciences, general	5	9	7	10	7	7	10	1	6	6
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology	2	2	5	2	4	1	4	4	6	3
Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy	.	.	.	2	.	.	2	1	1	3
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology	.	2	2	.	1	2	2	.	.	.
Microbiology and immunology	2	3	4	2	4	3	5	3	1	5
Molecular biology	2	1	1	3	.	5	1	1	.	4
Neurobiology and neurosciences	5	7	2	7	6	10	7	4	8	5
Pharmacology and toxicology	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	2	1	1
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology	.	3	1	.	1	.	2	.	.	4
Biology and biomedical sciences, other	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	1
Computer and information sciences	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences, other	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Engineering	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	2	.	.	.
Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	2	.	.	.
Health sciences	2	3	4	6	12	8	20	8	15	.
Nursing science	2	3	3	5	10	6	17	5	14	.
Pharmaceutical sciences	.	.	.	.	2	.	.	1	1	.
Public health	.	.	.	1	.	1	1	2	.	.
Health sciences, other	.	.	1	.	.	1	2	.	.	.
Physical sciences	1	.	1	.	.	.	1	.	.	1
Chemistry	1	.	1	.	.	.	1	.	.	1
Psychology	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Research and experimental psychology	.	1	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.