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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 261 259 298 244 274 266 257 264 272 295
  Science and engineering 232 238 268 218 233 243 225 225 230 251
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources 2 . . 3 . . . . 1 2
      Agricultural sciences 1 . . . . . . . . .
      Natural resources and conservation 1 . . 3 . . . . 1 2
    Biological and biomedical sciences 44 49 50 27 40 46 44 39 39 53
      Biochemistry and biophysics 1 8 5 1 4 10 10 7 5 9
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 2 3 4 . . 1 1 2 4 .
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 2 5 3 2 3 3 3 1 1 1
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy 1 4 . 4 1 2 1 2 3 2
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 9 3 4 6 3 8 4 3 3 9
      Genetics and genomics 7 6 3 1 3 2 5 4 5 5
      Microbiology and immunology 4 . 9 2 5 5 1 2 3 2
      Molecular biology 5 7 5 4 6 4 4 6 8 11
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 6 5 8 2 7 5 11 7 5 9
      Pharmacology and toxicology 4 7 6 4 5 3 1 3 . 2
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 3 1 3 1 3 2 3 2 2 3
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other . . . . . 1 . . . .
    Computer and information sciences 22 26 24 31 27 16 14 15 20 16
      Computer science 21 24 20 29 27 16 14 15 17 16
      Computer and information sciences, other 1 2 4 2 . . . . 3 .
    Engineering 37 35 41 41 44 41 38 39 35 45
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 5 3 8 6 9 5 5 11 8 9
      Chemical and petroleum engineering 2 3 1 2 . . . 1 . 1
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 3 2 2 4 1 . . . . .
      Electrical and computer engineering 16 11 9 14 10 9 9 8 10 13
      Industrial engineering and operations research . . 1 . 1 . . . . .
      Materials and mining engineering 6 9 12 9 15 14 19 13 14 10
      Mechanical engineering 3 6 7 6 8 12 4 6 3 9
      Engineering, other 2 1 1 . . 1 1 . . 3
    Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences 16 18 9 12 16 11 15 15 18 22
      Geological sciences 1 5 1 2 3 4 7 4 8 6
      Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences 15 13 8 10 13 7 8 11 10 16
    Health sciences 1 4 4 3 7 5 5 . . 2
      Nursing science . . 1 . . . . . . .
      Public health 1 2 . 2 . . 1 . . .
      Health sciences, other . 2 3 1 7 5 4 . . 2
    Mathematics and statistics 35 34 33 30 26 31 34 33 29 32
      Applied mathematics 11 11 17 10 9 9 11 14 17 16
      Mathematics 3 2 1 3 3 7 6 3 3 5
      Statistics 4 9 3 5 5 8 4 7 3 4
      Mathematics and statistics, other 17 12 12 12 9 7 13 9 6 7
    Physical sciences 38 38 68 34 31 50 34 50 45 43
      Astronomy and astrophysics 1 8 8 3 1 2 . 2 . 1
      Chemistry 24 19 38 17 16 28 15 27 21 22
      Physics 13 11 22 14 14 20 19 21 24 20
    Psychology 14 8 10 15 14 14 11 13 12 9
      Clinical psychology 5 3 3 9 7 2 3 4 6 2
      Counseling and applied psychology . 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 .
      Research and experimental psychology 8 4 6 6 6 10 5 8 5 5
      Psychology, other 1 . . . . 1 2 . . 2
    Social sciences 23 26 29 22 28 29 30 21 31 27
      Anthropology 3 3 4 3 1 . 1 2 5 5
      Economics 3 4 3 4 8 7 9 7 8 10
      Political science and government 6 3 4 4 2 7 3 3 8 4
      Public policy analysis . . 1 . 3 4 1 . . .
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 3 8 5 3 3 5 6 6 8 6
      Social sciences, other 8 8 12 8 11 6 10 3 2 2
  Non-science and engineering 29 21 30 26 41 23 32 39 42 44
    Business . . 1 . . . . 1 2 1
      Business . . 1 . . . . 1 2 1
    Education 3 2 4 2 7 7 5 4 1 .
      Education research . 1 . . 1 1 . 1 . .
      Teacher education and teaching fields 3 1 4 2 6 6 5 3 1 .
    Humanities and arts 24 18 25 24 29 15 23 34 36 40
      Letters 8 2 6 5 5 3 10 12 11 9
      Foreign languages and literature 3 3 4 3 3 1 3 3 4 3
      History 5 5 5 5 7 4 1 5 9 4
      Philosophy and religious studies 2 4 6 5 4 1 3 7 4 9
      Music and performing arts 2 2 3 4 6 2 2 2 5 6
      Humanities and arts, other 4 2 1 2 4 4 4 5 3 9
    Other non-science and engineering 2 1 . . 5 1 4 . 3 3
      Communication . . . . . . . . . 1
      Public administration and social services 2 1 . . 5 1 4 . 3 2

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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