Data

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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	62	54	60	66	46	35	42	31	41	34
Science and engineering	59	51	56	64	44	35	41	31	40	34
Science	35	18	22	15	14	18	12	7	14	13
Life science	7	6	3	3	1	3	4	3	1	1
Biological sciences	6	6	3	3	1	3	4	3	1	1
Health sciences	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences and earth sciences	9	4	3	2	1	4	3	2	4	4
Chemistry	2	.	3	1	.	3	2	.	2	.
Physics and astronomy	7	4	.	1	1	1	1	2	2	4
Mathematics and computer sciences	17	8	16	10	11	11	5	2	9	8
Computer sciences	14	6	10	7	6	7	5	1	6	7
Mathematics	3	2	6	3	5	4	.	1	3	1
Psychology and social sciences	2	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Economics	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Other social sciences	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Engineering	24	33	34	49	30	17	29	24	26	21
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering	1	2	1	3	.	1	1	.	.	.
Biological/biomedical sciences	4	6	2	5	2	3	4	3	1	5
Chemical engineering	1	5	2	4	4	2	1	1	2	3
Civil engineering	.	2	.	3	3	2	3	1	.	.
Electrical engineering	4	3	5	10	8	3	8	7	6	5
Industrial engineering	2	1	3	2	.	.	.	2	1	1
Materials/metallurgical engineering	3	4	10	8	7	4	1	4	3	4
Mechanical engineering	3	3	4	6	2	.	5	1	6	2
Other engineering	6	7	7	8	4	2	6	5	7	1
Non-science and engineering	3	3	4	2	2	.	1	.	1	.
Education	.	.	3	2	.	.	1	.	1	.
Education research	.	.	3	2	.	.	.	.	1	.
Teaching fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.
Humanities	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other humanities and arts	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other	2	3	1	.	2	.	.	.	.	.
Business management/administration	2	1	1	.	2	.	.	.	.	.
Communication	.	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.