Data

U. South Dakota, 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	32	29	30	37	31	40	32	29	19	28
Science and engineering	29	23	24	28	22	31	25	23	15	19
Science	28	20	22	25	19	26	24	21	14	18
Life science	12	6	14	13	3	13	5	8	2	7
Biological sciences	3	4	13	10	3	10	5	8	2	7
Health sciences	9	2	1	3	.	3	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences and earth sciences	6	2	2	1	1	6	9	5	3	1
Chemistry	4	2	1	.	1	6	9	5	3	1
Physics and astronomy	2	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mathematics and computer sciences	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	1	.
Computer sciences	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	1	.
Mathematics	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology and social sciences	10	12	6	10	15	7	10	8	8	10
Psychology	6	10	6	7	14	5	10	8	8	10
Political science and government	4	1	.	3	1	2	.	.	.	.
Other social sciences	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Engineering	1	3	2	3	3	5	1	2	1	1
Biological/biomedical sciences	1	2	2	1	.	4	1	1	1	1
Materials/metallurgical engineering	.	1	.	2	3	.	.	1	.	.
Other engineering	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
Non-science and engineering	3	6	6	9	9	9	7	6	4	9
Education	1	2	5	5	7	5	3	4	2	3
Education research	1	2	5	5	7	5	3	4	2	3
Humanities	1	4	1	2	2	3	4	2	2	6
Letters	1	4	1	2	2	3	4	2	2	5
Other humanities and arts	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Other	1	.	.	2	.	1	.	.	.	.
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	1	.	.	2	.	1	.	.	.	.

NOTES:

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