Data

U. Notre Dame

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	240	237	240	274	238	214	243	205	213	207
Science and engineering	193	176	181	210	184	156	187	164	166	160
Science	141	119	135	158	131	105	126	110	117	117
Life science	28	17	34	44	21	22	35	29	20	27
Agricultural sciences	1	1	1	1	.	1	.	2	.	.
Biological sciences	27	16	33	43	21	21	35	26	20	27
Health sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Physical sciences and earth sciences	50	37	38	44	51	38	31	31	44	28
Chemistry	26	15	22	28	30	24	17	15	19	13
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	6	5	4	2	.	3	4	4	5	.
Physics and astronomy	18	17	12	14	21	11	10	12	20	15
Mathematics and computer sciences	23	29	23	24	20	22	22	20	21	21
Computer sciences	10	11	15	14	11	14	10	11	7	10
Mathematics	13	18	8	10	9	8	12	9	14	11
Psychology and social sciences	40	36	40	46	39	23	38	30	32	41
Psychology	9	9	15	14	15	6	9	12	13	13
Anthropology	1	5	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Economics	5	4	4	5	2	1	9	2	4	10
Political science and government	10	11	10	17	14	10	12	9	9	10
Sociology	6	5	7	10	7	5	8	6	3	8
Other social sciences	9	2	3	.	1	1	.	1	3	.
Engineering	52	57	46	52	53	51	61	54	49	43
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering	5	8	3	8	9	7	9	9	2	4
Biological/biomedical sciences	1	6	4	4	3	4	2	5	4	2
Chemical engineering	3	9	11	10	13	8	16	10	9	9
Civil engineering	4	6	4	3	5	5	2	3	4	1
Electrical engineering	12	14	12	10	13	13	21	14	20	11
Industrial engineering	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Materials/metallurgical engineering	1	.	1	1	.	.	1	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	8	2	6	7	3	6	5	10	5	11
Other engineering	17	12	5	9	7	8	5	3	5	5
Non-science and engineering	47	61	59	64	54	58	56	41	47	47
Humanities	47	61	59	63	54	57	56	41	47	47
Foreign languages & literature	.	3	4	3	2	1	3	2	1	1
History	7	15	15	15	16	14	14	8	10	9
Letters	11	10	9	9	14	13	14	7	8	11
Other humanities and arts	29	33	31	36	22	29	25	24	28	26
Other	.	.	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	.
Business management/administration	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.

NOTES:

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