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Rankings

Data year	Earned doctorates			Full-time graduate students						Total R&D expenditures
Data year	Rank	Percentile	Institutions ranked	Rank	Percentile	Institutions ranked	Rank	Percentile	Institutions ranked	Rank	Percentile	Institutions ranked
2024	277	40.3	459
2023	247	46.8	459
2022	293	36.6	457
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014

NOTES:

1. See TableBuilder for the prior year data.
2. Blank white cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or institution not eligible for survey.
3. Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.

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Data

Number of earned doctorates, by trend major field of study of recipients: 2024–15
Fields	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
All fields	27	35	21	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Science and engineering	27	35	21	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	19	28	15	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biochemistry and biophysics	.	3	5	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biology and biomedical sciences, general	.	4	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology	2	2	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology	2	2	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Microbiology and immunology	8	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Molecular biology	1	4	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neurosciences	1	2	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology	4	6	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biology and biomedical sciences, other	.	2	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Health sciences	8	7	6	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Nursing science	4	1	3	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Pharmaceutical sciences	3	2	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Public health	.	1	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Health sciences, other	1	3	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

NOTE:

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

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates