Data

Brandeis 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	75	77	77	81	86	83	100	94	93	81
Science and engineering	63	59	64	67	67	68	77	69	68	63
Science	63	59	64	67	67	68	77	69	68	63
Life science	19	18	25	20	19	24	21	19	18	19
Biological sciences	17	17	19	19	18	20	19	18	15	18
Health sciences	2	1	6	1	1	4	2	1	3	1
Physical sciences and earth sciences	13	10	13	11	13	14	14	13	10	9
Chemistry	3	3	7	8	6	4	6	6	5	7
Physics and astronomy	10	7	6	3	7	10	8	7	5	2
Mathematics and computer sciences	8	7	6	13	7	6	7	7	10	8
Computer sciences	2	2	4	7	2	2	3	1	3	1
Mathematics	6	5	2	6	5	4	4	6	7	7
Psychology and social sciences	23	24	20	23	28	24	35	30	30	27
Psychology	3	5	2	6	7	4	3	5	6	4
Anthropology	3	.	2	1	.	1	.	8	2	4
Economics	2	4	3	1	4	2	5	1	3	1
Political science and government	3	1	1	2	3	.	2	6	.	3
Sociology	2	1	3	2	.	4	5	4	.	4
Other social sciences	10	13	9	11	14	13	20	6	19	11
Non-science and engineering	12	18	13	14	19	15	23	25	25	18
Education	1	.	.	.	.	1	1	.	.	1
Education research	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.	.	1
Other education	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Humanities	11	17	13	12	18	13	20	23	23	16
Foreign languages & literature	1	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
History	3	5	3	5	4	3	8	8	6	6
Letters	3	6	4	3	5	4	3	7	8	3
Other humanities and arts	4	6	6	4	8	6	9	8	9	7
Other	.	1	.	2	1	1	2	2	2	1
Business management/administration	.	.	.	2	1	1	2	1	1	.
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	1

NOTES:

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