Data

U. Chicago, The

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	455	369	409	432	387	395	391	401	412	402
Science and engineering	339	258	258	293	257	262	246	255	250	241
Science	324	250	254	286	252	258	246	254	250	241
Life science	82	55	73	74	83	72	75	70	76	66
Agricultural sciences	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological sciences	77	47	71	67	79	69	69	67	67	60
Health sciences	4	7	2	7	4	3	6	3	9	6
Physical sciences and earth sciences	70	70	66	64	51	71	49	59	43	64
Chemistry	34	36	33	27	21	31	22	26	21	34
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	6	6	6	7	5	5	4	3	5	3
Physics and astronomy	30	28	27	30	25	35	23	30	17	27
Mathematics and computer sciences	46	38	27	37	27	17	30	23	30	26
Computer sciences	20	6	4	12	7	.	4	5	6	11
Mathematics	26	32	23	25	20	17	26	18	24	15
Psychology and social sciences	126	87	88	111	91	98	92	102	101	85
Psychology	12	7	16	19	11	15	13	18	14	11
Anthropology	20	8	14	17	14	16	11	19	21	15
Economics	34	35	25	34	29	23	30	31	31	23
Political science and government	14	11	15	13	11	13	13	12	9	12
Sociology	16	12	7	9	14	13	12	12	8	5
Other social sciences	30	14	11	19	12	18	13	10	18	19
Engineering	15	8	4	7	5	4	.	1	.	.
Biological/biomedical sciences	4	.	1	2	.	.	.	1	.	.
Chemical engineering	2	3	1	3	2	4	.	.	.	.
Materials/metallurgical engineering	1	.	2	1	2	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	8	5	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	.
Non-science and engineering	116	111	151	139	130	133	145	146	162	161
Education	1	.	.	3	3	3	.	1	.	.
Education research	1	.	.	3	2	1	.	.	.	.
Other education	.	.	.	.	1	2	.	1	.	.
Humanities	97	85	125	111	107	108	107	122	132	141
Foreign languages & literature	15	13	13	15	8	14	14	22	19	20
History	16	21	29	27	33	36	36	36	40	33
Letters	24	14	24	16	23	11	12	17	17	36
Other humanities and arts	42	37	59	53	43	47	45	47	56	52
Other	18	26	26	25	20	22	38	23	30	20
Business management/administration	11	13	18	16	14	9	25	11	17	14
Communication	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	2
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	6	13	8	9	6	13	13	12	13	4

NOTES:

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