Data

U. Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Number of earned doctorates, by trend major field of study of recipients: 2025–16
Fields	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016
All fields	79	80	91	82	62	46	88	78	53	85
Science and engineering	79	80	91	82	62	46	88	78	53	85
Biological and biomedical sciences	59	60	73	64	43	36	70	59	47	73
Biochemistry and biophysics	13	10	19	12	11	5	14	9	11	14
Biology and biomedical sciences, general	2	6	7	5	1	4	6	6	9	9
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology	1	.	4	2	2	1	2	1	.	1
Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy	1	2	1	3	1	2	.	4	4	5
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1	.
Genetics and genomics	5	5	4	8	4	2	3	4	2	1
Microbiology and immunology	5	10	5	13	11	4	19	8	3	10
Molecular biology	16	14	9	9	7	5	5	4	1	6
Neurobiology and neurosciences	8	8	15	5	5	8	9	12	8	6
Pharmacology and toxicology	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.	.
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology	8	5	9	7	1	4	11	8	8	20
Biology and biomedical sciences, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	2	.	1
Engineering	7	7	11	8	2	2	5	4	3	1
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering	7	7	11	8	2	2	5	4	3	1
Health sciences	1	1	2	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Health sciences, other	1	1	2	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences	2	3	4	1	3	.	3	5	2	1
Chemistry	2	3	4	1	3	.	3	5	2	1
Psychology	10	9	1	9	13	8	10	10	1	10
Clinical psychology	8	9	1	9	11	8	8	10	1	9
Counseling and applied psychology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Research and experimental psychology	2	.	.	.	1	.	2	.	.	1
Psychology, other	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.

NOTES:

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