Data

William & Mary

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	51	62	66	76	74	54	61	53	50	47
Science and engineering	35	42	47	48	46	33	35	39	36	23
Science	33	38	46	46	46	32	34	39	35	23
Life science	2	3	1	4	3	2	3	2	4	2
Agricultural sciences	.	.	.	2	.	1	1	1	2	1
Biological sciences	1	3	1	2	3	1	2	1	2	1
Health sciences	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences and earth sciences	14	19	24	27	23	14	16	20	14	12
Chemistry	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	1
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	8	14	10	10	6	4	6	11	5	5
Physics and astronomy	6	5	14	17	16	10	10	9	9	6
Mathematics and computer sciences	10	11	14	9	9	12	5	6	8	6
Computer sciences	10	10	12	9	8	12	4	6	7	6
Mathematics	.	1	2	.	1	.	1	.	1	.
Psychology and social sciences	7	5	7	6	11	4	10	11	9	3
Anthropology	.	1	1	3	1	1	1	5	3	.
Other social sciences	7	4	6	3	10	3	9	6	6	3
Engineering	2	4	1	2	.	1	1	.	1	.
Materials/metallurgical engineering	.	4	1	2	.	1	1	.	1	.
Other engineering	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Non-science and engineering	16	20	19	28	28	21	26	14	14	24
Education	12	13	13	18	14	15	20	10	9	16
Education administration	1	4	3	6	2	1	10	3	4	6
Education research	11	9	9	11	12	12	10	7	5	10
Teacher education	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Other education	.	.	1	1	.	1	.	.	.	.
Humanities	4	7	6	10	14	6	6	4	5	8
History	4	5	4	6	9	6	5	2	4	8
Letters	.	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Other humanities and arts	.	2	1	4	4	.	1	2	1	.

NOTES:

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