Data

Wichita State 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	38	41	26	30	35	37	46	41	37	41
Science and engineering	34	41	25	30	34	37	46	41	36	41
Biological and biomedical sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	1	1
Biochemistry and biophysics	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.	1
Neurobiology and neurosciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Computer and information sciences	1	2	1	.	4	2	.	5	.	1
Computer science	1	2	1	.	4	2	.	2	.	1
Computer and information sciences, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	3	.	.
Engineering	15	24	10	14	12	15	23	17	18	20
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	1	3	.	1	2	2	.	1	2	4
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Electrical and computer engineering	5	7	2	5	2	6	3	4	2	5
Industrial engineering and operations research	7	7	3	2	4	3	11	10	7	8
Materials and mining engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	2	.
Mechanical engineering	2	5	5	6	4	3	8	2	5	2
Engineering, other	.	2	.	.	.	1	1	.	.	.
Health sciences	1	1	1	.	2	1	1	1	1	1
Health sciences, other	1	1	1	.	2	1	1	1	1	1
Mathematics and statistics	5	2	3	1	4	4	4	4	2	1
Applied mathematics	5	2	2	1	2	4	4	4	2	1
Mathematics	.	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Mathematics and statistics, other	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences	4	5	1	3	4	1	6	3	2	3
Chemistry	2	5	1	3	4	1	6	3	2	3
Physics	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	8	7	9	12	8	14	11	10	12	14
Clinical psychology	3	4	3	4	3	4	2	4	3	4
Counseling and applied psychology	1	2	4	4	3	6	5	4	6	1
Research and experimental psychology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	3
Psychology, other	4	1	2	4	2	4	4	2	2	6
Non-science and engineering	4	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	1	.
Business	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Business	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Education	4	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Education leadership and administration	3	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Teacher education and teaching fields	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other non-science and engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.

NOTES:

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