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Number of earned doctorates, by trend major field of study of recipients: 2023–14
Fields 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
All fields 528 511 400 449 428 461 472 455 424 421
  Science and engineering 361 347 289 304 292 307 313 298 268 279
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources 65 47 50 46 49 51 38 36 44 38
      Agricultural sciences 56 39 32 37 36 43 26 25 35 21
      Natural resources and conservation 9 8 18 9 13 8 12 11 9 17
    Biological and biomedical sciences 105 104 106 91 84 90 90 88 90 79
      Biochemistry and biophysics 14 12 14 6 6 8 9 9 5 9
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 9 3 4 8 5 2 6 5 2 3
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 11 8 5 3 8 6 4 8 9 10
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy 4 3 2 6 5 8 5 2 5 6
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 12 15 9 16 9 15 15 15 10 12
      Genetics and genomics 13 8 9 1 4 3 7 9 6 5
      Microbiology and immunology 13 24 30 24 17 18 16 9 22 10
      Molecular biology 1 7 2 2 2 2 2 . 3 2
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 2 6 8 6 6 7 2 4 3 4
      Pharmacology and toxicology 4 2 4 1 7 4 7 3 6 7
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 2 . 3 4 1 4 2 . 6 2
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other 20 16 16 14 14 13 15 24 13 9
    Computer and information sciences 13 13 5 6 13 11 10 7 9 5
      Computer science 10 9 4 6 13 11 10 6 9 5
      Computer and information sciences, other 3 4 1 . . . . 1 . .
    Engineering 30 20 13 15 10 13 16 9 5 4
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 9 5 . 3 4 2 1 2 3 2
      Chemical and petroleum engineering . . 1 . . . 2 1 . .
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 5 1 . . . . . . . .
      Electrical and computer engineering 4 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 . .
      Materials and mining engineering 1 . 3 . . 1 . 3 . .
      Mechanical engineering 2 . . 1 . 1 1 . . .
      Engineering, other 9 12 7 9 4 8 10 2 2 2
    Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences 7 3 8 7 5 5 5 9 6 9
      Geological sciences 2 . 2 3 2 . 3 3 1 3
      Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences 5 3 6 4 3 5 2 6 5 6
    Health sciences 25 26 16 21 23 35 24 23 24 26
      Pharmaceutical sciences 5 9 4 4 9 12 5 7 6 5
      Public health 5 4 5 10 5 11 10 10 5 8
      Health sciences, other 15 13 7 7 9 12 9 6 13 13
    Mathematics and statistics 19 20 14 16 14 13 11 17 17 17
      Applied mathematics . . . 2 2 1 1 . . 1
      Mathematics 1 1 . 1 . 3 3 1 3 5
      Statistics 10 13 7 9 6 5 4 6 12 6
      Mathematics and statistics, other 8 6 7 4 6 4 3 10 2 5
    Physical sciences 28 36 24 32 31 32 33 25 21 36
      Astronomy and astrophysics . . 1 1 2 . . 1 . .
      Chemistry 22 27 20 25 27 29 25 18 16 30
      Physics 6 9 3 6 2 3 8 6 5 6
    Psychology 32 30 32 44 30 30 54 38 23 29
      Clinical psychology . 6 4 6 2 5 8 7 3 2
      Counseling and applied psychology 16 10 20 21 13 13 20 14 12 8
      Research and experimental psychology 5 1 . 1 2 4 3 4 2 7
      Psychology, other 11 13 8 16 13 8 23 13 6 12
    Social sciences 37 48 21 26 33 27 32 46 29 36
      Anthropology 6 6 1 2 3 1 2 6 5 8
      Economics 7 6 1 1 5 2 6 9 4 4
      Political science and government 4 11 2 9 6 9 4 6 3 8
      Public policy analysis . . . . 2 . 1 . 1 1
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 4 4 3 1 4 5 4 3 3 4
      Social sciences, other 16 21 14 13 13 10 15 22 13 11
  Non-science and engineering 167 164 111 145 136 154 159 157 156 142
    Business 16 15 12 12 10 12 10 12 10 6
      Business 16 15 12 12 10 12 10 12 10 6
    Education 87 88 53 75 75 91 80 101 95 77
      Education leadership and administration 3 9 6 12 10 6 7 3 5 6
      Education research 46 45 23 28 39 40 30 35 47 44
      Teacher education and teaching fields 30 19 18 27 21 33 29 50 41 24
      Education, other 8 15 6 8 5 12 14 13 2 3
    Humanities and arts 36 27 15 38 33 28 47 25 33 35
      Letters 11 12 5 23 15 12 15 9 10 14
      Foreign languages and literature 10 9 2 7 7 4 5 4 5 6
      History 1 . . 4 5 4 8 6 7 6
      Philosophy and religious studies 5 4 2 4 5 5 9 2 4 2
      Music and performing arts 5 2 2 . . 1 4 1 3 3
      Humanities and arts, other 4 . 4 . 1 2 6 3 4 4
    Other non-science and engineering 28 34 31 20 18 23 22 19 18 24
      Communication 9 11 9 9 7 4 7 8 11 11
      Public administration and social services 8 8 9 10 9 13 7 7 5 7
      Non-science and engineering, other 11 15 13 1 2 6 8 4 2 6

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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