Data
Harvard U.
Fields | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All fields | 753 | 621 | 628 | 738 | 717 | 683 | 677 | 706 | 715 | 674 |
Science and engineering | 570 | 480 | 485 | 581 | 556 | 490 | 502 | 524 | 515 | 470 |
Science | 529 | 455 | 464 | 554 | 538 | 467 | 477 | 499 | 485 | 452 |
Life science | 240 | 199 | 226 | 269 | 269 | 212 | 218 | 247 | 225 | 224 |
Agricultural sciences | 1 | . | 2 | 3 | . | 2 | 2 | . | 2 | 1 |
Biological sciences | 207 | 159 | 187 | 224 | 211 | 172 | 194 | 220 | 200 | 159 |
Health sciences | 32 | 40 | 37 | 42 | 58 | 38 | 22 | 27 | 23 | 64 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | 120 | 98 | 93 | 126 | 108 | 105 | 101 | 89 | 103 | 81 |
Chemistry | 32 | 27 | 25 | 46 | 30 | 31 | 28 | 18 | 25 | 18 |
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 17 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 8 |
Physics and astronomy | 71 | 64 | 57 | 70 | 67 | 59 | 65 | 60 | 63 | 55 |
Mathematics and computer sciences | 45 | 41 | 30 | 39 | 35 | 29 | 25 | 36 | 34 | 26 |
Computer sciences | 19 | 14 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 7 |
Mathematics | 26 | 27 | 19 | 21 | 27 | 18 | 20 | 26 | 23 | 19 |
Psychology and social sciences | 124 | 117 | 115 | 120 | 126 | 121 | 133 | 127 | 123 | 121 |
Psychology | 17 | 13 | 13 | 24 | 13 | 19 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 |
Anthropology | 9 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 16 | 12 |
Economics | 30 | 32 | 25 | 29 | 46 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 29 |
Political science and government | 13 | 23 | 16 | 20 | 18 | 21 | 28 | 32 | 21 | 31 |
Sociology | 14 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 8 |
Other social sciences | 41 | 39 | 42 | 34 | 26 | 26 | 34 | 26 | 29 | 25 |
Engineering | 41 | 25 | 21 | 27 | 18 | 23 | 25 | 25 | 30 | 18 |
Biological/biomedical sciences | 10 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 6 |
Electrical engineering | 4 | 2 | 3 | . | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
Materials/metallurgical engineering | 5 | 2 | . | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2 | . |
Mechanical engineering | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | . | 1 | 3 | 1 | . | 3 |
Other engineering | 16 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 6 |
Non-science and engineering | 183 | 141 | 143 | 157 | 161 | 193 | 175 | 182 | 200 | 204 |
Education | 24 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 23 | 25 | 32 | 36 | 39 | 50 |
Education administration | 1 | . | . | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 13 |
Education research | 12 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 23 | 18 | 26 |
Teacher education | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | . |
Teaching fields | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Other education | 9 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 7 |
Humanities | 125 | 87 | 92 | 103 | 106 | 141 | 111 | 116 | 135 | 113 |
Foreign languages & literature | 23 | 9 | 15 | 21 | 14 | 23 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 20 |
History | 26 | 23 | 20 | 29 | 28 | 39 | 33 | 29 | 51 | 37 |
Letters | 20 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 14 | 23 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 22 |
Other humanities and arts | 56 | 37 | 39 | 34 | 50 | 56 | 40 | 47 | 42 | 34 |
Other | 34 | 38 | 30 | 37 | 32 | 27 | 32 | 30 | 26 | 41 |
Business management/administration | 17 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 13 | 19 | 18 | 12 | 16 |
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec) | 17 | 23 | 13 | 18 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 25 |
NOTES:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates