Data

Wake Forest U.

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	48	53	35	47	30	49	31	38	56	52
Science and engineering	48	53	35	47	30	49	31	38	56	52
Agricultural sciences and natural resources	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Agricultural sciences	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	32	30	25	28	16	27	21	29	36	30
Biochemistry and biophysics	2	2	2	2	.	4	1	3	4	5
Biology and biomedical sciences, general	4	3	2	2	2	1	.	.	8	1
Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology	.	.	1	1	2	2	1	.	1	1
Genetics and genomics	1	2	1	1	2	1	1	3	2	1
Microbiology and immunology	2	1	2	3	2	.	.	3	4	5
Molecular biology	.	2	.	1	1	1	.	1	1	1
Neurobiology and neurosciences	10	11	8	5	2	7	7	6	6	8
Pharmacology and toxicology	1	1	1	1	1	1	.	1	.	2
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology	11	7	8	10	4	10	8	12	10	5
Biology and biomedical sciences, other	1	1	.	2	.	.	2	.	.	1
Engineering	7	10	4	7	9	12	3	9	5	12
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering	7	10	4	7	9	11	3	9	5	12
Materials and mining engineering	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Health sciences	.	.	.	1	1	2	.	.	4	2
Pharmaceutical sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Health sciences, other	.	.	.	1	1	2	.	.	4	1
Physical sciences	7	13	6	10	4	8	7	.	11	8
Chemistry	3	9	3	5	3	4	2	.	4	6
Physics	4	4	3	5	1	4	5	.	7	2
Psychology	1	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Research and experimental psychology	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology, other	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.

NOTES:

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