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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 38 50 49 48 51 55 57 57 57 74
  Science and engineering 23 38 26 32 39 31 39 32 31 37
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources . . . . . . . . 2 .
      Agricultural sciences . . . . . . . . 1 .
      Natural resources and conservation . . . . . . . . 1 .
    Biological and biomedical sciences 1 11 4 3 6 3 8 10 2 11
      Biochemistry and biophysics . 2 . 1 . . 2 3 . 2
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general . 2 2 1 . . . . . .
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology . . . . . . . . 1 .
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 1 5 1 . 3 . 5 4 . 5
      Molecular biology . 2 1 1 1 2 1 3 . 3
      Neurobiology and neurosciences . . . . . . . . 1 1
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other . . . . 2 1 . . . .
    Computer and information sciences . 1 1 . 1 . . . . .
      Computer science . 1 1 . 1 . . . . .
    Health sciences 3 1 5 4 4 3 2 1 3 3
      Nursing science 3 1 5 4 4 2 2 1 3 2
      Public health . . . . . 1 . . . .
      Health sciences, other . . . . . . . . . 1
    Mathematics and statistics 3 1 . 4 3 1 1 2 . 1
      Applied mathematics 2 1 . 3 2 . 1 2 . 1
      Statistics 1 . . . . . . . . .
      Mathematics and statistics, other . . . 1 1 1 . . . .
    Physical sciences 3 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 3 5
      Astronomy and astrophysics . . 1 1 . 1 . . . .
      Chemistry 3 5 4 4 5 4 6 5 3 5
      Physics . . 2 . 2 . 1 . . .
    Psychology 6 10 4 9 15 12 12 7 11 8
      Clinical psychology 4 5 3 6 6 5 6 3 8 1
      Counseling and applied psychology 2 2 . 2 7 6 5 3 2 5
      Research and experimental psychology . 3 1 1 2 . . 1 1 2
      Psychology, other . . . . . 1 1 . . .
    Social sciences 7 9 5 7 3 7 9 7 10 9
      Political science and government 3 4 3 3 2 3 3 4 5 5
      Social sciences, other 4 5 2 4 1 4 6 3 5 4
  Non-science and engineering 15 12 23 16 12 24 18 25 26 37
    Business . . 3 1 3 3 1 1 2 8
      Business . . 3 1 3 3 1 1 2 8
    Education 15 12 19 15 9 21 17 24 24 29
      Education leadership and administration 2 1 3 2 4 7 3 4 7 5
      Education research 6 4 9 8 3 5 9 13 10 22
      Teacher education and teaching fields 4 5 6 2 1 3 3 4 6 2
      Education, other 3 2 1 3 1 6 2 3 1 .
    Humanities and arts . . . . . . . . . .
      Philosophy and religious studies . . . . . . . . . .
    Other non-science and engineering . . 1 . . . . . . .
      Non-science and engineering, other . . 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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