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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 228 182 189 212 204 198 216 201 215 205
  Science and engineering 160 125 135 162 146 149 157 137 159 148
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources 3 3 2 5 2 3 7 3 5 3
      Agricultural sciences . . . . . . 1 . . .
      Natural resources and conservation 3 3 2 5 2 3 6 3 5 3
    Biological and biomedical sciences 56 50 36 43 44 43 56 44 39 44
      Biochemistry and biophysics 9 7 3 7 3 7 6 4 3 4
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 6 6 2 1 3 2 3 5 4 2
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 4 2 3 4 3 3 3 3 1 .
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy . . . . . 1 3 4 2 3
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 9 6 4 5 9 5 10 7 4 5
      Genetics and genomics 3 1 1 3 2 2 4 4 2 8
      Microbiology and immunology 5 8 4 6 2 5 3 2 2 9
      Molecular biology 2 6 1 . 2 1 1 1 1 2
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 3 2 8 7 11 6 6 7 6 7
      Pharmacology and toxicology 4 4 3 2 3 2 5 4 1 3
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 11 8 7 7 6 8 10 3 11 .
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other . . . 1 . 1 2 . 2 1
    Computer and information sciences 5 . 3 1 3 1 1 2 4 3
      Computer science 5 . 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 2
      Computer and information sciences, other . . 2 . 1 . . 1 . 1
    Engineering 29 19 19 32 25 19 23 22 24 16
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering 2 . . . . . 1 1 . 1
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 6 3 6 5 7 6 6 4 9 6
      Chemical and petroleum engineering 1 . . 1 . . . . . .
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 4 6 3 7 4 1 4 3 3 3
      Electrical and computer engineering 5 2 3 5 3 5 2 3 5 1
      Industrial engineering and operations research 6 3 3 6 5 3 5 5 3 1
      Materials and mining engineering . . . 1 . . 2 1 . .
      Mechanical engineering 3 3 4 6 6 4 3 3 3 3
      Engineering, other 2 2 . 1 . . . 2 1 1
    Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences 16 12 20 20 14 17 16 11 27 23
      Geological sciences 2 2 3 2 2 6 5 1 8 7
      Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences 14 10 17 18 12 11 11 10 19 16
    Health sciences 14 7 15 10 16 12 10 13 10 11
      Nursing science 3 1 2 2 6 3 5 5 2 4
      Public health 5 1 5 3 3 1 . 1 . .
      Health sciences, other 6 5 8 5 7 8 5 7 8 7
    Mathematics and statistics 2 1 2 4 2 6 2 3 4 4
      Applied mathematics . . . 1 . 3 . 1 3 .
      Mathematics . 1 . 1 . 1 2 . . 3
      Statistics . . 1 . . 1 . . . .
      Mathematics and statistics, other 2 . 1 2 2 1 . 2 1 1
    Physical sciences 11 11 13 14 5 20 9 13 14 18
      Astronomy and astrophysics 2 . 1 . 1 . . 1 . 1
      Chemistry 5 5 8 10 4 13 5 6 7 15
      Physics 4 6 4 4 . 7 4 6 7 2
    Psychology 14 19 17 19 26 24 23 16 20 20
      Clinical psychology 10 7 5 9 10 11 13 10 11 7
      Counseling and applied psychology 2 6 7 5 9 3 5 3 4 7
      Research and experimental psychology 2 6 5 4 5 3 3 2 2 5
      Psychology, other . . . 1 2 7 2 1 3 1
    Social sciences 10 3 8 14 9 4 10 10 12 6
      Economics 2 . 1 6 3 . 1 . . 1
      Political science and government . . . . 1 3 1 2 1 .
      Public policy analysis 1 . . . . . . . . .
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 4 2 6 4 2 1 1 2 3 3
      Social sciences, other 3 1 1 4 3 . 7 6 8 2
  Non-science and engineering 68 57 54 50 58 49 59 64 56 57
    Business 5 1 6 3 3 9 3 7 4 4
      Business 5 1 6 3 3 9 3 7 4 4
    Education 5 6 3 4 9 7 18 13 4 11
      Education leadership and administration . . . . 1 . 5 4 . .
      Education research 1 2 . . 2 1 8 3 1 6
      Teacher education and teaching fields 4 4 2 4 4 5 3 6 3 4
      Education, other . . 1 . 2 1 2 . . 1
    Humanities and arts 51 42 43 40 41 28 31 41 44 36
      Letters 7 1 6 5 5 1 3 10 5 7
      Foreign languages and literature 1 2 1 3 5 6 4 3 . 3
      History . . 2 2 1 3 . . 3 1
      Philosophy and religious studies . 4 2 3 4 2 3 1 2 4
      Music and performing arts 42 35 32 26 25 16 21 25 34 19
      Humanities and arts, other 1 . . 1 1 . . 2 . 2
    Other non-science and engineering 7 8 2 3 5 5 7 3 4 6
      Communication 7 7 2 2 4 4 7 2 3 5
      Non-science and engineering, other . 1 . 1 1 1 . 1 1 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

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