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Number of earned doctorates, by trend major field of study of recipients: 2023–14
Fields 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
All fields 197 202 163 202 205 205 248 204 224 236
  Science and engineering 154 165 131 157 154 157 184 145 160 185
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources . . 1 . 3 1 . . 1 2
      Agricultural sciences . . 1 . 2 1 . . 1 2
      Natural resources and conservation . . . . 1 . . . . .
    Biological and biomedical sciences 25 47 34 29 25 42 45 32 48 39
      Biochemistry and biophysics 2 10 4 3 3 9 7 2 7 5
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 4 6 2 4 2 2 5 1 2 .
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology . 2 2 . 1 1 . 2 1 2
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy . . . . 2 1 1 1 2 2
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 1 2 . 1 3 . . . 1 .
      Genetics and genomics 1 2 . 1 1 1 . . 3 1
      Microbiology and immunology 4 1 4 1 2 2 . 3 5 1
      Molecular biology . 1 1 2 1 3 10 5 5 3
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 3 3 5 3 2 2 4 5 4 2
      Pharmacology and toxicology 3 5 3 . 1 2 2 2 1 3
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 6 12 9 12 5 16 11 8 15 14
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other 1 3 4 2 2 3 5 3 2 6
    Computer and information sciences 8 9 9 17 10 6 6 12 11 8
      Computer science 5 7 9 17 9 6 6 11 11 8
      Computer and information sciences, other 3 2 . . 1 . . 1 . .
    Engineering 39 27 29 38 29 37 28 27 34 45
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 7 3 5 10 2 9 6 4 5 3
      Chemical and petroleum engineering 4 1 4 6 1 2 3 3 4 5
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 3 2 2 4 6 2 5 4 3 3
      Electrical and computer engineering 6 7 6 7 8 9 6 2 7 16
      Industrial engineering and operations research 7 10 5 7 8 7 3 4 8 6
      Materials and mining engineering 1 2 4 1 1 3 1 2 1 3
      Mechanical engineering 11 2 3 2 3 5 4 8 6 9
      Engineering, other . . . 1 . . . . . .
    Health sciences 16 20 16 14 16 10 16 5 7 9
      Nursing science 6 3 7 6 6 . 5 1 4 4
      Pharmaceutical sciences 5 . 3 1 4 5 3 1 . 4
      Public health 2 3 . . . . 1 . . .
      Health sciences, other 3 14 6 7 6 5 7 3 3 1
    Mathematics and statistics 4 4 5 4 7 4 7 8 4 9
      Applied mathematics 2 3 3 2 5 1 5 4 2 3
      Mathematics . 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 1 4
      Statistics . . 1 . . . . . 1 1
      Mathematics and statistics, other 2 . . . 1 1 . 2 . 1
    Physical sciences 33 26 17 20 35 28 29 21 24 32
      Astronomy and astrophysics 1 1 1 . . 1 1 . . .
      Chemistry 23 17 12 11 32 17 16 15 18 19
      Physics 9 8 4 9 3 10 12 6 6 13
    Psychology 16 15 11 19 15 17 31 17 15 19
      Clinical psychology 9 7 5 11 6 7 16 4 8 7
      Counseling and applied psychology 4 4 2 1 4 4 9 4 1 3
      Research and experimental psychology 3 3 3 7 3 3 4 7 5 9
      Psychology, other . 1 1 . 2 3 2 2 1 .
    Social sciences 13 17 9 16 14 12 22 23 16 22
      Anthropology 2 3 2 1 2 3 3 2 2 4
      Economics 5 5 1 7 2 2 6 7 5 4
      Political science and government 2 5 4 1 5 4 2 3 6 4
      Public policy analysis . . . . . . 1 1 . .
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 3 4 1 6 3 3 7 7 1 9
      Social sciences, other 1 . 1 1 2 . 3 3 2 1
  Non-science and engineering 43 37 32 45 51 48 64 59 64 51
    Business 3 . . . 3 7 2 2 2 2
      Business 3 . . . 3 7 2 2 2 2
    Education 23 11 18 17 24 16 39 29 29 27
      Education leadership and administration 9 3 . 1 . 3 2 2 1 1
      Education research 11 8 16 15 22 13 36 17 24 25
      Teacher education and teaching fields 3 . 2 1 2 . . 8 3 1
      Education, other . . . . . . 1 2 1 .
    Humanities and arts 6 15 8 21 20 13 17 18 23 17
      Letters 2 7 4 9 12 6 14 6 12 8
      Foreign languages and literature 2 3 1 3 . 3 . 5 3 3
      History 1 4 1 3 3 2 2 5 5 .
      Philosophy and religious studies 1 1 1 1 2 1 . 2 1 3
      Music and performing arts . . . 1 2 . . . 1 3
      Humanities and arts, other . . 1 4 1 1 1 . 1 .
    Other non-science and engineering 11 11 6 7 4 12 6 10 10 5
      Communication 6 7 4 5 2 6 5 9 6 4
      Public administration and social services 4 1 1 2 2 4 1 1 4 1
      Non-science and engineering, other 1 3 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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