Data

Indiana U. Pennsylvania

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	56	73	76	72	70	76	68	59	60	66
Science and engineering	14	18	20	21	13	21	18	19	9	15
Engineering	2	5	7	6	1	.	.	.	.	.
Chemical and petroleum engineering	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Industrial engineering and operations research	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Engineering, other	1	5	7	5	1	.	.	.	.	.
Health sciences	1	2	3	2	1	1	2	2	.	.
Nursing science	.	1	3	1	.	1	1	1	.	.
Public health	1	1	.	1	1	.	1	1	.	.
Health sciences, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Physics	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	.	3	.	.	1	.	.	1	.	2
Clinical psychology	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Counseling and applied psychology	.	2	.	.	1	.	.	1	.	.
Psychology, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Social sciences	11	8	10	13	9	20	16	16	9	13
Public policy analysis	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Sociology, demography, and population studies	1	4	3	5	3	5	2	4	1	4
Social sciences, other	10	4	7	8	6	15	14	12	8	8
Non-science and engineering	42	55	56	51	57	55	50	40	51	51
Business	10	10	6	3	6	5	2	.	3	.
Business	10	10	6	3	6	5	2	.	3	.
Education	9	14	20	17	13	9	9	8	10	13
Education leadership and administration	1	1	.	.	1	1	1	.	1	.
Education research	4	6	5	7	3	3	1	1	1	4
Teacher education and teaching fields	4	7	14	10	9	5	7	7	8	9
Education, other	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Humanities and arts	16	20	21	17	30	37	32	26	29	32
Letters	15	18	18	17	27	36	31	25	28	29
Foreign languages and literature	.	1	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.
History	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Philosophy and religious studies	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Humanities and arts, other	1	1	1	.	3	.	1	1	1	3
Other non-science and engineering	7	11	9	14	8	4	7	6	9	6
Communication	2	1	6	7	5	3	6	4	8	6
Public administration and social services	3	3	.	2	2	1	1	2	1	.
Non-science and engineering, other	2	7	3	5	1	.	.	.	.	.

NOTES:

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