Data

Brigham Young U., Provo

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	88	111	92	93	92	107	97	84	100	92
Science and engineering	65	95	80	80	66	88	79	76	78	80
Science	50	68	59	63	49	68	58	62	50	49
Life science	13	18	16	24	17	16	14	16	9	13
Agricultural sciences	1	2	.	.	.	1	1	2	1	1
Biological sciences	11	16	12	20	17	14	12	12	7	11
Health sciences	1	.	4	4	.	1	1	2	1	1
Physical sciences and earth sciences	7	19	15	13	7	15	16	14	13	12
Chemistry	4	14	10	8	6	10	12	13	11	8
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	.	2	.	.	4	1	.	.	.
Physics and astronomy	3	5	3	5	1	1	3	1	2	4
Mathematics and computer sciences	6	11	8	1	7	5	6	9	9	5
Computer sciences	3	5	6	.	5	3	5	6	5	3
Mathematics	3	6	2	1	2	2	1	3	4	2
Psychology and social sciences	24	20	20	25	18	32	22	23	19	19
Psychology	24	20	19	25	18	31	22	23	18	19
Anthropology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Sociology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Other social sciences	.	.	1	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Engineering	15	27	21	17	17	20	21	14	28	31
Biological/biomedical sciences	.	1	.	.	.	2	1	.	.	.
Chemical engineering	6	2	9	6	7	3	7	5	7	9
Civil engineering	1	4	1	.	1	1	.	1	1	1
Electrical engineering	2	4	5	5	4	5	5	2	13	7
Materials/metallurgical engineering	.	2	.	1	.	.	1	.	.	1
Mechanical engineering	4	10	5	2	5	8	5	4	5	5
Other engineering	2	4	1	3	.	1	2	2	2	8
Non-science and engineering	23	16	12	13	26	19	18	8	22	12
Education	23	16	12	13	26	19	17	8	20	12
Education administration	1	4	5	2	11	5	3	2	2	3
Education research	19	8	7	11	13	8	13	5	15	8
Teaching fields	2	3	.	.	1	2	1	1	2	1
Other education	1	1	.	.	1	4	.	.	1	.
Humanities	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	2	.
Foreign languages & literature	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
History	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Other	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Business management/administration	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

NOTES:

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