Data

Boston C.

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	117	116	133	137	120	130	139	135	132	117
Science and engineering	65	63	84	59	62	66	71	58	80	60
Science	65	63	84	59	62	65	71	58	80	59
Life science	12	9	14	6	15	17	14	15	21	12
Biological sciences	8	4	7	3	10	13	11	11	13	5
Health sciences	4	5	7	3	5	4	3	4	8	7
Physical sciences and earth sciences	26	24	24	22	12	16	19	16	23	16
Chemistry	22	14	17	15	9	14	11	11	17	11
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physics and astronomy	4	9	7	7	3	2	8	5	6	5
Mathematics and computer sciences	1	4	6	5	2	4	3	.	1	.
Mathematics	1	4	6	5	2	4	3	.	1	.
Psychology and social sciences	26	26	40	26	33	28	35	27	35	31
Psychology	11	8	15	13	12	8	14	9	12	16
Anthropology	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Economics	6	11	11	9	8	10	14	11	11	8
Political science and government	5	1	4	.	9	4	2	2	6	2
Sociology	.	4	8	4	2	6	5	5	4	5
Other social sciences	3	2	2	.	2	.	.	.	2	.
Engineering	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	1
Materials/metallurgical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Other engineering	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Non-science and engineering	52	53	49	78	58	64	68	77	52	57
Education	15	18	20	23	23	19	25	27	15	26
Education administration	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	3	3	5
Education research	14	14	12	20	17	16	21	20	11	19
Teacher education	.	.	1	.	1	.	1	1	.	.
Teaching fields	1	1	5	2	2	3	2	3	1	2
Other education	.	3	2	1	2	.	.	.	.	.
Humanities	23	27	18	41	25	35	30	34	28	21
Foreign languages & literature	.	.	3	2	1	3	2	.	3	1
History	6	4	1	7	7	6	2	7	7	3
Letters	2	2	.	8	1	2	4	6	2	4
Other humanities and arts	15	21	14	24	16	24	22	21	16	13
Other	14	8	11	14	10	10	13	16	9	10
Business management/administration	6	5	5	5	8	5	8	9	2	1
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	8	3	6	9	2	5	5	7	7	9

NOTES:

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