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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 510 528 511 400 449 428 461 472 455 424
  Science and engineering 354 361 347 289 304 292 307 313 298 268
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources 68 65 47 50 46 49 51 38 36 44
      Agricultural sciences 50 56 39 32 37 36 43 26 25 35
      Natural resources and conservation 18 9 8 18 9 13 8 12 11 9
    Biological and biomedical sciences 110 105 104 106 91 84 90 90 88 90
      Biochemistry and biophysics 5 14 12 14 6 6 8 9 9 5
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 4 9 3 4 8 5 2 6 5 2
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 17 11 8 5 3 8 6 4 8 9
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy 2 4 3 2 6 5 8 5 2 5
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 11 12 15 9 16 9 15 15 15 10
      Genetics and genomics 11 13 8 9 1 4 3 7 9 6
      Microbiology and immunology 21 13 24 30 24 17 18 16 9 22
      Molecular biology 3 1 7 2 2 2 2 2 . 3
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 4 2 6 8 6 6 7 2 4 3
      Pharmacology and toxicology 3 4 2 4 1 7 4 7 3 6
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 2 2 . 3 4 1 4 2 . 6
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other 27 20 16 16 14 14 13 15 24 13
    Computer and information sciences 12 13 13 5 6 13 11 10 7 9
      Computer science 11 10 9 4 6 13 11 10 6 9
      Computer and information sciences, other 1 3 4 1 . . . . 1 .
    Engineering 25 30 20 13 15 10 13 16 9 5
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 4 9 5 . 3 4 2 1 2 3
      Chemical and petroleum engineering 3 . . 1 . . . 2 1 .
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 1 5 1 . . . . . . .
      Electrical and computer engineering 7 4 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 .
      Materials and mining engineering 1 1 . 3 . . 1 . 3 .
      Mechanical engineering 1 2 . . 1 . 1 1 . .
      Engineering, other 8 9 12 7 9 4 8 10 2 2
    Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences 5 7 3 8 7 5 5 5 9 6
      Geological sciences . 2 . 2 3 2 . 3 3 1
      Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences 5 5 3 6 4 3 5 2 6 5
    Health sciences 20 25 26 16 21 23 35 24 23 24
      Pharmaceutical sciences 7 5 9 4 4 9 12 5 7 6
      Public health 7 5 4 5 10 5 11 10 10 5
      Health sciences, other 6 15 13 7 7 9 12 9 6 13
    Mathematics and statistics 15 19 20 14 16 14 13 11 17 17
      Applied mathematics 1 . . . 2 2 1 1 . .
      Mathematics 1 1 1 . 1 . 3 3 1 3
      Statistics 3 10 13 7 9 6 5 4 6 12
      Mathematics and statistics, other 10 8 6 7 4 6 4 3 10 2
    Physical sciences 33 28 36 24 32 31 32 33 25 21
      Astronomy and astrophysics 2 . . 1 1 2 . . 1 .
      Chemistry 26 22 27 20 25 27 29 25 18 16
      Physics 5 6 9 3 6 2 3 8 6 5
    Psychology 27 32 30 32 44 30 30 54 38 23
      Clinical psychology 2 . 6 4 6 2 5 8 7 3
      Counseling and applied psychology 14 16 10 20 21 13 13 20 14 12
      Research and experimental psychology 4 5 1 . 1 2 4 3 4 2
      Psychology, other 7 11 13 8 16 13 8 23 13 6
    Social sciences 39 37 48 21 26 33 27 32 46 29
      Anthropology 3 6 6 1 2 3 1 2 6 5
      Economics 10 7 6 1 1 5 2 6 9 4
      Political science and government 7 4 11 2 9 6 9 4 6 3
      Public policy analysis . . . . . 2 . 1 . 1
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 4 4 4 3 1 4 5 4 3 3
      Social sciences, other 15 16 21 14 13 13 10 15 22 13
  Non-science and engineering 156 167 164 111 145 136 154 159 157 156
    Business 12 16 15 12 12 10 12 10 12 10
      Business 12 16 15 12 12 10 12 10 12 10
    Education 73 87 88 53 75 75 91 80 101 95
      Education leadership and administration 6 3 9 6 12 10 6 7 3 5
      Education research 30 46 45 23 28 39 40 30 35 47
      Teacher education and teaching fields 31 30 19 18 27 21 33 29 50 41
      Education, other 6 8 15 6 8 5 12 14 13 2
    Humanities and arts 41 36 27 15 38 33 28 47 25 33
      Letters 15 11 12 5 23 15 12 15 9 10
      Foreign languages and literature 7 10 9 2 7 7 4 5 4 5
      History 1 1 . . 4 5 4 8 6 7
      Philosophy and religious studies 9 5 4 2 4 5 5 9 2 4
      Music and performing arts 5 5 2 2 . . 1 4 1 3
      Humanities and arts, other 4 4 . 4 . 1 2 6 3 4
    Other non-science and engineering 30 28 34 31 20 18 23 22 19 18
      Communication 11 9 11 9 9 7 4 7 8 11
      Public administration and social services 7 8 8 9 10 9 13 7 7 5
      Non-science and engineering, other 12 11 15 13 1 2 6 8 4 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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