Data

Baylor U.

Number of earned doctorates, by major field of study of recipients: 2021–12
Fields	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All fields	97	95	92	79	73	79	69	78	70	76
Science and engineering	60	59	58	49	45	54	44	50	41	44
Science	50	51	55	41	42	52	43	50	41	44
Life science	12	12	17	11	10	11	16	13	7	8
Agricultural sciences	.	1	4	1	1	.	3	.	1	.
Biological sciences	9	7	8	8	6	9	12	10	6	8
Health sciences	3	4	5	2	3	2	1	3	.	.
Physical sciences and earth sciences	24	15	16	13	12	17	8	10	14	10
Chemistry	7	6	9	5	8	8	3	2	5	6
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	5	4	4	3	1	5	2	5	3	.
Physics and astronomy	12	5	3	5	3	4	3	3	6	4
Mathematics and computer sciences	9	11	10	10	10	12	9	12	8	5
Computer sciences	1	.	.	.	1	.	1	1	.	.
Mathematics	8	11	10	10	9	12	8	11	8	5
Psychology and social sciences	5	13	12	7	10	12	10	15	12	21
Psychology	4	3	4	2	2	6	3	5	3	3
Political science and government	.	5	4	1	5	2	2	5	4	9
Sociology	1	5	4	4	3	4	5	4	3	4
Other social sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	2	5
Engineering	10	8	3	8	3	2	1	.	.	.
Biological/biomedical sciences	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Electrical engineering	5	3	1	5	3	2	1	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	4	5	1	2	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	1	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Non-science and engineering	37	36	34	30	28	25	25	28	29	32
Education	8	7	7	3	2	7	4	5	6	3
Education administration	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Education research	8	5	5	2	2	5	3	4	6	3
Teacher education	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	.
Teaching fields	.	2	1	1	.	1	1	.	.	.
Humanities	20	23	25	21	23	16	21	23	22	27
History	.	4	4	2	2	.	2	1	.	1
Letters	7	10	11	5	7	8	2	11	6	6
Other humanities and arts	13	9	10	14	14	8	17	11	16	20
Other	9	6	2	6	3	2	.	.	1	2
Business management/administration	5	1	.	5	1	2	.	.	1	1
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	4	5	2	1	2	.	.	.	.	1

NOTES:

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