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Number of earned doctorates, by trend major field of study of recipients: 2023–14
Fields 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
All fields 231 251 193 174 197 178 226 186 156 184
  Science and engineering 221 242 183 167 186 167 212 171 144 171
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources . 2 . . 2 1 2 . . 1
      Agricultural sciences . . . . 1 . . . . .
      Natural resources and conservation . 2 . . 1 1 2 . . 1
    Biological and biomedical sciences 14 20 18 10 19 15 17 16 9 21
      Biochemistry and biophysics . . 1 1 1 3 1 2 2 3
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 3 2 3 1 1 1 . . . .
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 1 4 2 . 1 . 1 1 . 2
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy . 1 . . 2 . 2 1 . .
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 1 4 5 3 4 2 4 1 . 4
      Genetics and genomics 1 1 1 . . . . 1 1 .
      Microbiology and immunology 4 3 1 1 3 2 2 6 3 6
      Molecular biology 1 1 2 . 3 4 2 . 1 2
      Neurobiology and neurosciences . 1 . . 1 1 1 2 2 1
      Pharmacology and toxicology 3 2 1 1 2 2 4 . . 2
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology . . . 1 1 . . 1 . .
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other . 1 2 2 . . . 1 . 1
    Computer and information sciences 31 28 18 14 11 12 10 9 12 3
      Computer science 21 18 17 13 9 12 10 8 12 3
      Computer and information sciences, other 10 10 1 1 2 . . 1 . .
    Engineering 95 101 87 67 78 68 93 68 51 67
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 13 5 6 4 10 7 8 6 6 4
      Chemical and petroleum engineering 4 10 6 6 10 10 10 4 7 7
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 12 15 7 5 9 5 8 12 7 4
      Electrical and computer engineering 38 40 45 29 26 27 36 24 22 34
      Industrial engineering and operations research 13 13 11 6 4 8 6 5 5 3
      Materials and mining engineering 2 3 1 3 4 4 5 4 . 2
      Mechanical engineering 7 11 8 12 14 6 16 8 4 10
      Engineering, other 6 4 3 2 1 1 4 5 . 3
    Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences 2 5 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 .
      Geological sciences 1 2 . . . . . . . .
      Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences 1 3 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 .
    Health sciences 11 10 10 11 12 12 10 10 7 7
      Nursing science 2 2 3 4 3 3 4 6 2 2
      Pharmaceutical sciences 5 5 5 3 6 5 5 4 5 5
      Public health 4 3 2 3 2 2 1 . . .
      Health sciences, other . . . 1 1 2 . . . .
    Mathematics and statistics 5 8 6 3 6 4 8 7 4 7
      Applied mathematics 1 3 1 . . . . . . 2
      Mathematics 1 . . 2 1 2 5 4 1 3
      Statistics . . . . . . 1 . . 1
      Mathematics and statistics, other 3 5 5 1 5 2 2 3 3 1
    Physical sciences 27 31 16 20 25 25 27 23 28 25
      Astronomy and astrophysics . . . . . . . 1 . .
      Chemistry 13 17 8 12 16 14 17 14 17 14
      Physics 14 14 8 8 9 11 10 8 11 11
    Psychology 9 13 11 20 7 7 12 13 8 14
      Clinical psychology . 1 . 3 . . 1 1 . .
      Counseling and applied psychology 4 5 8 8 2 2 7 2 4 8
      Research and experimental psychology 3 3 2 3 3 5 4 6 3 5
      Psychology, other 2 4 1 6 2 . . 4 1 1
    Social sciences 27 24 15 20 24 21 32 23 23 26
      Anthropology 1 . 1 . . . . . . .
      Economics 9 6 3 4 5 4 8 2 2 7
      Political science and government 4 4 2 2 2 3 2 6 5 2
      Public policy analysis 3 1 1 4 2 5 6 2 7 7
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 2 5 5 4 6 6 9 7 4 5
      Social sciences, other 8 8 3 6 9 3 7 6 5 5
  Non-science and engineering 10 9 10 7 11 11 14 15 12 13
    Business . . . . . 3 . . . 1
      Business . . . . . 3 . . . 1
    Education . . . . . . . . 3 .
      Education research . . . . . . . . 3 .
    Humanities and arts 9 5 8 7 11 8 13 15 9 11
      Letters 8 1 5 3 7 4 10 11 7 8
      History 1 4 3 4 4 3 3 3 2 2
      Humanities and arts, other . . . . . 1 . 1 . 1
    Other non-science and engineering 1 4 2 . . . 1 . . 1
      Communication . . . . . . 1 . . .
      Public administration and social services 1 . . . . . . . . .
      Non-science and engineering, other . 4 2 . . . . . . 1

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

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