Data

Southern U. and A&M C., Baton Rouge

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	35	37	17	17	21	21	15	8	21	24
Science and engineering	22	33	11	16	16	16	12	5	14	14
Agricultural sciences and natural resources	4	6	5	6	5	4	3	3	3	8
Agricultural sciences	.	.	1	.	.	1	1	1	1	3
Natural resources and conservation	4	6	4	6	5	3	2	2	2	5
Biological and biomedical sciences	.	1	.	1	5	3	1	.	.	.
Microbiology and immunology	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Pharmacology and toxicology	.	1	.	1	4	3	1	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Computer science	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Engineering	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Industrial engineering and operations research	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Health sciences	1	1	.	1	2	2	2	2	5	1
Nursing science	.	.	.	.	2	2	2	2	4	1
Public health	1	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	1	.
Social sciences	16	25	6	8	4	7	6	.	5	5
Economics	.	.	1	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Public policy analysis	16	25	5	8	4	7	5	.	5	5
Non-science and engineering	13	4	6	1	5	5	3	3	7	10
Education	10	2	3	1	5	4	3	3	7	10
Education leadership and administration	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Education research	1	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	1	4
Teacher education and teaching fields	7	1	1	1	4	3	3	3	6	6
Education, other	2	.	2	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Humanities and arts	1	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Humanities and arts, other	1	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Other non-science and engineering	2	2	3	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Public administration and social services	2	2	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Non-science and engineering, other	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

NOTES:

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