Data

Boston C.

Number of earned doctorates, by major field of study of recipients: 2022–13
Fields	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013
All fields	142	117	116	133	137	120	130	139	135	132
Science and engineering	79	65	63	84	59	62	66	71	58	80
Science	79	65	63	84	59	62	65	71	58	80
Life science	9	12	9	14	6	15	17	14	15	21
Biological sciences	3	8	4	7	3	10	13	11	11	13
Health sciences	6	4	5	7	3	5	4	3	4	8
Physical sciences and earth sciences	27	26	24	24	22	12	16	19	16	23
Chemistry	19	22	14	17	15	9	14	11	11	17
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physics and astronomy	8	4	9	7	7	3	2	8	5	6
Mathematics and computer sciences	7	1	4	6	5	2	4	3	.	1
Mathematics	7	1	4	6	5	2	4	3	.	1
Psychology and social sciences	36	26	26	40	26	33	28	35	27	35
Psychology	17	11	8	15	13	12	8	14	9	12
Anthropology	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Economics	13	6	11	11	9	8	10	14	11	11
Political science and government	2	5	1	4	.	9	4	2	2	6
Sociology	3	.	4	8	4	2	6	5	5	4
Other social sciences	1	3	2	2	.	2	.	.	.	2
Engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Materials/metallurgical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Non-science and engineering	63	52	53	49	78	58	64	68	77	52
Education	23	15	18	20	23	23	19	25	27	15
Education administration	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	3	3
Education research	20	14	14	12	20	17	16	21	20	11
Teacher education	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	1	1	.
Teaching fields	2	1	1	5	2	2	3	2	3	1
Other education	1	.	3	2	1	2	.	.	.	.
Humanities	27	23	27	18	41	25	35	30	34	28
Foreign languages & literature	.	.	.	3	2	1	3	2	.	3
History	3	6	4	1	7	7	6	2	7	7
Letters	4	2	2	.	8	1	2	4	6	2
Other humanities and arts	20	15	21	14	24	16	24	22	21	16
Other	13	14	8	11	14	10	10	13	16	9
Business management/administration	9	6	5	5	5	8	5	8	9	2
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	4	8	3	6	9	2	5	5	7	7

NOTES:

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