Data

Florida Atlantic University

Number of earned doctorates, by major field of study of recipients: 2016–07
Fields	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007
All fields	103	99	104	89	104	75	84	90	83	73
Science and engineering	54	61	50	52	57	50	52	44	37	44
Science	46	44	39	43	47	46	42	37	31	36
Life science	18	16	16	18	13	25	18	20	13	13
Agricultural sciences	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	1	1
Biological sciences	11	5	10	15	9	11	13	14	10	4
Health	7	10	6	2	4	14	5	6	2	8
Physical sciences and earth sciences	5	6	9	3	11	2	5	6	2	7
Chemistry	.	3	1	2	5	2	2	4	2	4
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	1	2	5	1	2	.	.	.	.	2
Physics and astronomy	4	1	3	.	4	.	3	2	.	1
Mathematics and computer sciences	9	7	4	10	11	10	12	7	5	8
Computer sciences	4	2	3	2	3	2	4	3	4	5
Mathematics	5	5	1	8	8	8	8	4	1	3
Psychology and social sciences	14	15	10	12	12	9	7	4	11	8
Psychology	11	7	9	8	9	6	5	1	8	6
Anthropology	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	1
Political science and government	1	1	.	1	.	2	.	.	.	.
Sociology	.	1	.	.	.	.	1	1	2	.
Other social sciences	2	6	1	2	3	1	1	2	1	1
Engineering	8	17	11	9	10	4	10	7	6	8
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Civil engineering	.	.	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Electrical engineering	.	7	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	1
Materials/metallurgical engineering	1	.	.	.	1	1	.	.	1	.
Mechanical engineering	2	.	1	1	2	.	3	2	.	1
Other engineering	4	10	5	5	5	1	5	3	3	6
Non-science and engineering	49	38	54	37	47	25	32	46	46	29
Education	32	25	36	20	29	11	16	32	24	18
Education administration	14	11	19	9	13	10	11	21	15	13
Education research	15	14	12	11	14	1	3	7	5	5
Teacher education	.	.	2	.	1	.	.	2	.	.
Teaching fields	2	.	1	.	1	.	2	2	3	.
Other education	1	.	2	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Humanities	3	4	5	3	4	7	5	5	5	5
Foreign languages & literature	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	1	.	1
History	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.
Letters	2	1	4	2	1	2	2	3	1	.
Other humanities	1	2	1	1	2	5	2	.	3	4
Other	14	9	13	14	14	7	11	9	17	6
Business management/administration	7	6	9	7	11	4	6	7	12	3
Communication	1	.	.	3	.	2	1	1	.	1
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	6	3	4	4	3	1	4	1	5	2