Data

Northern Illinois 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	60	64	70	82	95	62	62	53	72	54
Science and engineering	37	44	50	52	63	42	50	40	57	40
Science	37	44	50	51	63	40	50	40	57	40
Life science	4	14	9	3	11	6	8	2	4	4
Biological sciences	2	7	5	3	11	6	8	2	4	4
Health sciences	2	7	4	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences and earth sciences	4	9	15	9	11	7	12	10	9	7
Chemistry	2	5	8	5	5	4	7	4	5	2
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	.	1	1	2	.	.	1	1	.
Physics and astronomy	2	4	6	3	4	3	5	5	3	5
Mathematics and computer sciences	5	6	1	4	5	3	4	6	6	6
Mathematics	5	6	1	4	5	3	4	6	6	6
Psychology and social sciences	24	15	25	35	36	24	26	22	38	23
Psychology	14	11	12	22	25	13	18	12	24	17
Economics	5	3	5	5	5	3	4	3	5	1
Political science and government	3	1	5	7	5	4	4	6	8	4
Other social sciences	2	.	3	1	1	4	.	1	1	1
Engineering	.	.	.	1	.	2	.	.	.	.
Materials/metallurgical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	2	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Non-science and engineering	23	20	20	30	32	20	12	13	15	14
Education	19	9	14	23	20	10	3	4	3	.
Education research	19	8	14	18	17	10	1	1	2	.
Teaching fields	.	1	.	5	3	.	2	3	1	.
Humanities	4	10	6	7	12	9	8	9	11	14
History	1	1	2	3	3	3	1	1	6	4
Letters	3	8	4	3	8	6	7	8	5	9
Other humanities and arts	.	1	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	1
Other	.	1	.	.	.	1	1	.	1	.
Business management/administration	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	.	1	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	.

NOTES:

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