Data

U. Maryland, Baltimore

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	78	68	87	66	64	71	81	88	67	81
Science and engineering	68	59	81	60	55	67	74	80	60	77
Biological and biomedical sciences	46	40	52	38	36	45	45	51	43	53
Biochemistry and biophysics	2	6	4	4	3	4	3	6	2	4
Biology and biomedical sciences, general	2	.	2	.	3	.	.	1	2	1
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology	2	.	1	.	.	3	.	.	.	.
Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy	.	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology	8	6	4	6	.	5	6	6	4	5
Genetics and genomics	4	1	5	1	2	3	4	2	4	3
Microbiology and immunology	12	9	9	6	5	11	10	14	9	11
Molecular biology	1	.	3	1	2	1	1	.	2	4
Neurobiology and neurosciences	6	8	13	7	6	5	10	8	8	11
Pharmacology and toxicology	1	.	.	2	5	5	1	3	4	6
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology	8	8	11	11	10	8	10	11	8	7
Computer and information sciences	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer science	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Health sciences	20	16	28	17	15	21	26	29	15	23
Nursing science	6	3	7	3	5	9	5	11	4	10
Pharmaceutical sciences	8	5	15	10	7	5	12	6	3	6
Public health	2	1	3	3	.	4	4	8	3	1
Health sciences, other	4	7	3	1	3	3	5	4	5	6
Physical sciences	.	.	.	3	1	1	2	.	1	1
Chemistry	.	.	.	3	1	1	2	.	1	1
Psychology	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology, other	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Social sciences	2	2	.	1	3	.	1	.	1	.
Public policy analysis	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	.	.
Social sciences, other	2	2	.	1	2	.	.	.	1	.
Non-science and engineering	10	9	6	6	9	4	7	8	7	4
Education	6	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.	.
Teacher education and teaching fields	6	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Education, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Humanities and arts	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Philosophy and religious studies	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other non-science and engineering	4	8	6	6	9	4	6	7	7	4
Public administration and social services	4	8	6	6	9	4	6	7	7	4

NOTES:

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