Data

Virginia Commonwealth 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	186	196	178	194	182	174	151	194	226	196
Science and engineering	150	158	136	159	136	140	110	152	178	155
Science	131	129	118	133	110	122	90	136	158	133
Life science	67	77	66	74	70	70	50	86	98	90
Agricultural sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Biological sciences	40	49	40	43	46	48	27	52	56	53
Health sciences	27	28	26	31	24	22	23	34	41	37
Physical sciences and earth sciences	17	23	18	20	14	18	14	12	13	10
Chemistry	17	22	17	16	14	16	12	12	11	8
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Physics and astronomy	.	1	1	4	.	2	2	.	2	1
Mathematics and computer sciences	14	5	13	6	3	8	5	6	9	7
Computer sciences	6	3	9	2	2	6	1	6	8	7
Mathematics	8	2	4	4	1	2	4	.	1	.
Psychology and social sciences	33	24	21	33	23	26	21	32	38	26
Psychology	27	19	13	20	17	23	12	23	23	17
Economics	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Political science and government	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.	2	.
Other social sciences	6	5	8	13	5	2	8	9	13	9
Engineering	19	29	18	26	26	18	20	16	20	22
Biological/biomedical sciences	1	9	2	4	5	3	4	3	6	8
Chemical engineering	4	3	1	6	2	3	1	2	3	1
Electrical engineering	1	5	3	3	6	3	3	4	6	.
Materials/metallurgical engineering	1	1	3	.	1	2	.	.	1	.
Mechanical engineering	5	7	4	4	5	3	8	3	2	9
Other engineering	7	4	5	9	7	4	4	4	2	4
Non-science and engineering	36	38	42	35	46	34	41	42	48	41
Education	22	30	24	23	20	14	9	16	25	23
Education administration	7	6	4	3	4	3	4	9	12	13
Education research	12	18	10	17	13	8	4	7	8	9
Teacher education	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.
Teaching fields	1	2	6	.	1	2	.	.	1	1
Other education	1	4	4	3	2	1	1	.	3	.
Humanities	2	2	4	2	9	9	8	9	5	2
History	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1	.	.
Letters	.	.	2	1	.	1	2	1	1	1
Other humanities and arts	2	2	2	1	8	8	6	7	4	1
Other	12	6	14	10	17	11	24	17	18	16
Business management/administration	1	3	5	4	3	3	10	4	7	8
Communication	2	1	.	.	3	1	3	6	2	1
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	9	2	9	6	11	7	11	7	9	7

NOTES:

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