Data
U. California, San Francisco
| Fields | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All fields | 139 | 132 | 137 | 125 | 133 | 130 | 131 | 143 | 123 | 130 |
| Science and engineering | 139 | 132 | 137 | 125 | 133 | 130 | 130 | 141 | 123 | 129 |
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 92 | 88 | 89 | 89 | 90 | 88 | 97 | 75 | 67 | 85 |
| Biochemistry and biophysics | 18 | 17 | 23 | 18 | 18 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Biology and biomedical sciences, general | 12 | 10 | 13 | 19 | 19 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 11 |
| Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology | 10 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy | 6 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology | 10 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | . |
| Genetics and genomics | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Microbiology and immunology | 6 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Molecular biology | 9 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| Neurobiology and neurosciences | 14 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 17 | 26 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| Pharmacology and toxicology | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 2 | 1 | . | 1 |
| Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology | 3 | . | 1 | . | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
| Biology and biomedical sciences, other | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Engineering | 9 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 26 | 12 | 12 |
| Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 9 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 26 | 12 | 12 |
| Chemical and petroleum engineering | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Health sciences | 17 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 19 | 10 | 11 | 19 | 27 | 22 |
| Nursing science | 8 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 18 |
| Pharmaceutical sciences | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Public health | 2 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 3 | . | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Health sciences, other | 3 | . | 2 | 2 | 4 | . | 1 | 2 | 4 | . |
| Physical sciences | 14 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 4 |
| Chemistry | 13 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 4 |
| Physics | 1 | . | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . |
| Psychology | 1 | 1 | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Research and experimental psychology | 1 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Psychology, other | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Social sciences | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 6 |
| Anthropology | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Public policy analysis | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | . |
| Sociology, demography, and population studies | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 |
| Social sciences, other | . | 3 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | . |
| Non-science and engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 2 | . | 1 |
| Business | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . |
| Business | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . |
| Education | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | . |
| Teacher education and teaching fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | . |
| Education, other | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Humanities and arts | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 |
| History | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 |
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
