Data

Carnegie Mellon 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	280	300	342	307	308	317	311	280	294	284
Science and engineering	257	275	306	276	290	280	280	250	252	252
Science	139	132	170	134	131	138	145	127	107	125
Life science	15	9	19	16	15	16	21	19	12	17
Agricultural sciences	2	.	2	1	1	1	.	1	.	1
Biological sciences	13	9	17	15	14	14	21	18	12	16
Health sciences	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences and earth sciences	20	22	31	34	32	23	25	19	24	25
Chemistry	8	7	21	13	15	9	13	7	11	10
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	2	2	2	2	2	.	1	2	1	1
Physics and astronomy	10	13	8	19	15	14	11	10	12	14
Mathematics and computer sciences	84	80	96	63	61	81	72	72	51	65
Computer sciences	68	56	72	46	45	62	53	57	37	51
Mathematics	16	24	24	17	16	19	19	15	14	14
Psychology and social sciences	20	21	24	21	23	18	27	17	20	18
Psychology	7	7	9	4	8	6	8	7	8	4
Anthropology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Economics	5	7	6	2	3	5	5	6	2	4
Other social sciences	8	7	9	15	12	7	14	4	10	10
Engineering	118	143	136	142	159	142	135	123	145	127
Biological/biomedical sciences	4	9	6	3	12	8	5	9	9	10
Chemical engineering	15	16	11	16	13	15	15	12	16	12
Civil engineering	5	8	6	5	4	5	11	5	8	4
Electrical engineering	19	20	21	19	21	25	22	25	32	18
Industrial engineering	1	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Materials/metallurgical engineering	16	15	16	16	22	20	11	15	17	22
Mechanical engineering	14	17	10	19	26	21	27	9	18	12
Other engineering	44	58	66	64	61	47	44	48	45	49
Non-science and engineering	23	25	36	31	18	37	31	30	42	32
Education	.	1	3	5	.	1	4	4	4	2
Education research	.	.	1	1	.	1	1	.	.	.
Teaching fields	.	1	2	4	.	.	3	4	4	2
Humanities	9	7	12	12	9	17	10	10	13	14
Foreign languages & literature	.	.	.	.	.	3	.	.	1	.
History	3	5	5	4	2	5	7	3	2	5
Letters	3	2	2	4	7	9	3	6	5	7
Other humanities and arts	3	.	5	4	.	.	.	1	5	2
Other	14	17	21	14	9	19	17	16	25	16
Business management/administration	10	11	19	10	8	19	13	13	20	13
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	4	6	2	4	1	.	4	3	5	3

NOTES:

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