Data

U. California, Merced

Number of earned doctorates, by major field of study of recipients: 2023–14
Fields	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
All fields	107	105	56	63	63	53	43	37	30	41
Science and engineering	105	101	56	59	62	52	43	36	29	37
Science	84	79	41	48	54	39	38	30	22	32
Life science	32	25	23	17	18	7	11	7	6	15
Agricultural sciences	8	2	3	5	2	2	2	1	1	6
Biological sciences	21	19	16	11	11	4	9	6	5	9
Health sciences	3	4	4	1	5	1	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences and earth sciences	17	17	7	12	10	12	8	8	8	3
Chemistry	9	6	3	5	1	1	4	1	3	1
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	.	1	1	1	2	3	1	.	2
Physics and astronomy	8	11	3	6	8	9	1	6	5	.
Mathematics and computer sciences	8	9	4	7	9	6	9	5	3	7
Computer sciences	4	7	2	4	6	3	4	4	3	3
Mathematics	4	2	2	3	3	3	5	1	.	4
Psychology and social sciences	27	28	7	12	17	14	10	10	5	7
Psychology	14	21	2	7	12	11	6	9	4	5
Anthropology	1	.	.	.	2	.	1	.	.	1
Political science and government	5	3	1	2	3	2	1	.	.	.
Sociology	6	3	4	2	.	1	.	.	1	.
Other social sciences	1	1	.	1	.	.	2	1	.	1
Engineering	21	22	15	11	8	13	5	6	7	5
Biological/biomedical sciences	3	3	1	2	3	2	.	1	1	2
Civil engineering	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Electrical engineering	1	3	4	1	.	1	.	1	.	.
Materials/metallurgical engineering	1	1	2	2	1	2	.	.	1	1
Mechanical engineering	11	7	6	3	4	5	4	3	2	.
Other engineering	4	8	2	3	.	3	1	1	2	2
Non-science and engineering	2	4	.	4	1	1	.	1	1	4
Education	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Teaching fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Humanities	1	1	.	4	1	1	.	.	1	4
History	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	1
Letters	.	.	.	2	1	.	.	.	1	1
Other humanities and arts	1	1	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	2
Other	1	3	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Business management/administration	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	1	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

NOTES:

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