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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 69 95 72 77 96 57 72 68 66 71
  Science and engineering 23 39 25 24 27 19 20 24 21 27
    Biological and biomedical sciences 1 4 4 1 3 3 1 1 1 2
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 1 3 2 . . . . 1 1 .
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology . . 1 . 1 1 . . . 1
      Genetics and genomics . . . . . 1 . . . .
      Microbiology and immunology . 1 1 . 1 . . . . .
      Molecular biology . . . . . . . . . .
      Neurobiology and neurosciences . . . . . . 1 . . .
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology . . . . . . . . . 1
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other . . . 1 1 1 . . . .
    Health sciences 4 5 4 6 7 1 1 7 4 4
      Nursing science . . . 4 . . . 1 . 2
      Health sciences, other 4 5 4 2 7 1 1 6 4 2
    Mathematics and statistics 3 5 6 5 3 . 3 . 2 1
      Statistics 3 2 6 4 1 . 2 . 1 1
      Mathematics and statistics, other . 3 . 1 2 . 1 . 1 .
    Physical sciences . . . 1 . . 1 . 1 .
      Chemistry . . . 1 . . 1 . 1 .
    Psychology 13 24 11 11 14 14 13 15 13 20
      Clinical psychology 1 1 . . . 1 2 . . 1
      Counseling and applied psychology 12 23 10 11 10 11 9 11 10 18
      Research and experimental psychology . . . . 1 1 . 1 2 .
      Psychology, other . . 1 . 3 1 2 3 1 1
    Social sciences 2 1 . . . 1 1 1 . .
      Social sciences, other 2 1 . . . 1 1 1 . .
  Non-science and engineering 46 56 47 53 69 38 52 44 45 44
    Business . . . . . . . . 1 2
      Business . . . . . . . . 1 2
    Education 45 53 40 40 66 36 50 42 43 40
      Education leadership and administration 4 10 5 7 6 4 6 4 3 6
      Education research 25 15 15 18 31 21 29 28 26 24
      Teacher education and teaching fields 8 17 7 11 20 11 11 8 14 5
      Education, other 8 11 13 4 9 . 4 2 . 5
    Humanities and arts . . 1 10 . . . . . .
      Philosophy and religious studies . . 1 . . . . . . .
      Music and performing arts . . . 10 . . . . . .
    Other non-science and engineering 1 3 6 3 3 2 2 2 1 2
      Communication . . . . . . . 1 . .
      Non-science and engineering, other 1 3 6 3 3 2 2 1 1 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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