Data

Walden U.

Number of earned doctorates, by major field of study of recipients: 2022–13
Fields	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013
All fields	829	846	865	820	746	659	635	559	565	442
Science and engineering	532	486	550	525	480	437	429	381	420	310
Science	525	485	548	523	477	433	425	379	418	307
Life science	138	143	193	161	176	171	188	146	145	120
Agricultural sciences	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	2	1	.
Biological sciences	13	20	21	18	16	16	39	24	23	.
Health sciences	125	123	172	143	159	155	149	120	121	120
Physical sciences and earth sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mathematics and computer sciences	2	3	.	1	3	3	8	6	4	5
Computer sciences	2	3	.	1	3	3	8	6	4	5
Psychology and social sciences	385	339	355	361	298	259	229	227	269	182
Psychology	241	203	236	230	190	170	152	158	189	141
Anthropology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1	.
Economics	.	1	.	.	.	.	1	.	1	.
Political science and government	.	.	1	.	1	2	1	4	3	7
Sociology	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	1
Other social sciences	144	135	118	131	107	87	75	63	75	33
Engineering	7	1	2	2	3	4	4	2	2	3
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1
Civil engineering	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	6	1	2	2	3	4	4	2	1	2
Non-science and engineering	297	360	315	295	266	222	206	178	145	132
Education	129	156	124	110	96	76	95	94	63	53
Education administration	16	16	12	9	9	16	3	16	10	7
Education research	58	70	63	61	56	36	54	58	35	31
Teacher education	7	3	3	3	3	5	6	8	4	4
Teaching fields	26	45	24	19	14	7	18	2	8	3
Other education	22	22	22	18	14	12	14	10	6	8
Humanities	4	5	7	5	1	.	11	1	.	1
History	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Other humanities and arts	4	4	7	5	1	.	11	.	.	1
Other	164	199	184	180	169	146	100	83	82	78
Business management/administration	84	89	73	100	112	88	60	61	56	59
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	3	2	.	1
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec)	80	110	111	80	57	58	37	20	26	18

NOTES:

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