Data

U. California, Davis

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 589 621 609 587 464 497 521 546 505 501
  Science and engineering 527 565 556 526 421 436 471 476 464 450
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources 54 53 57 41 56 44 51 45 43 41
      Agricultural sciences 50 49 52 38 53 40 47 40 41 35
      Natural resources and conservation 4 4 5 3 3 4 4 5 2 6
    Biological and biomedical sciences 160 164 170 152 118 132 144 143 146 141
      Biochemistry and biophysics 8 12 12 13 5 6 8 7 14 13
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general 1 6 2 4 1 5 4 2 5 11
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 6 9 3 3 3 4 6 4 3 5
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy . 2 3 3 1 4 7 7 4 8
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 30 23 47 37 28 39 43 40 35 30
      Genetics and genomics 13 13 11 8 11 5 10 10 3 5
      Microbiology and immunology 22 25 16 14 18 15 7 18 20 13
      Molecular biology 8 11 11 9 7 5 2 2 4 6
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 9 12 10 6 7 5 9 9 9 8
      Pharmacology and toxicology 9 9 11 6 8 6 13 8 7 4
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 14 12 12 16 8 12 9 12 12 12
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other 40 30 32 33 21 26 26 24 30 26
    Computer and information sciences 17 19 12 19 11 21 24 15 18 20
      Computer science 15 16 8 15 9 21 22 14 16 19
      Computer and information sciences, other 2 3 4 4 2 . 2 1 2 1
    Engineering 94 104 111 91 70 80 73 93 87 83
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering 10 9 10 10 3 4 . 4 4 1
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 15 19 20 18 14 13 13 15 17 20
      Chemical and petroleum engineering 4 12 13 10 9 6 4 8 7 6
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering 20 23 25 21 14 19 19 20 15 14
      Electrical and computer engineering 26 24 26 18 13 18 22 22 20 13
      Industrial engineering and operations research . . . . 2 . . . . 1
      Materials and mining engineering 8 7 10 7 5 5 9 7 10 13
      Mechanical engineering 3 3 2 3 6 12 4 10 10 12
      Engineering, other 8 7 5 4 4 3 2 7 4 3
    Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences 13 20 14 13 10 14 14 14 18 10
      Geological sciences 5 8 2 6 5 6 3 4 6 4
      Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences 8 12 12 7 5 8 11 10 12 6
    Health sciences 13 8 6 8 6 8 8 9 12 12
      Nursing science 9 3 5 6 5 5 6 6 6 6
      Pharmaceutical sciences . . . . . . . . 2 1
      Public health 4 5 1 1 1 . . 1 1 4
      Health sciences, other . . . 1 . 3 2 2 3 1
    Mathematics and statistics 26 34 29 27 34 24 24 25 26 15
      Applied mathematics 8 11 9 12 10 5 4 6 10 4
      Mathematics 1 2 . . 1 3 6 2 5 3
      Statistics 6 11 9 9 11 5 5 10 7 1
      Mathematics and statistics, other 11 10 11 6 12 11 9 7 4 7
    Physical sciences 69 68 65 72 55 43 57 65 39 57
      Astronomy and astrophysics 12 6 7 8 4 2 2 7 2 1
      Chemistry 40 45 42 39 35 29 31 35 27 29
      Physics 17 17 16 25 16 12 24 23 10 27
    Psychology 22 24 22 29 16 19 20 22 22 20
      Research and experimental psychology 14 13 16 23 12 12 15 15 18 12
      Psychology, other 8 11 6 6 4 7 5 7 4 8
    Social sciences 59 71 70 74 45 51 56 45 53 51
      Anthropology 4 3 10 8 6 3 8 7 4 7
      Economics 21 24 23 24 17 11 16 15 18 14
      Political science and government 9 10 5 8 4 8 5 4 9 4
      Public policy analysis . . . . . . . . 1 2
      Sociology, demography, and population studies 9 5 10 6 2 5 5 7 5 1
      Social sciences, other 16 29 22 28 16 24 22 12 16 23
  Non-science and engineering 62 56 53 61 43 61 50 70 41 51
    Business 1 2 1 1 . . . . . .
      Business 1 2 1 1 . . . . . .
    Education 13 8 9 12 9 15 9 13 8 13
      Education leadership and administration 3 . . 2 . 5 . . 1 .
      Education research 3 3 3 6 3 3 4 4 . 6
      Teacher education and teaching fields . 3 2 . 2 3 3 5 4 1
      Education, other 7 2 4 4 4 4 2 4 3 6
    Humanities and arts 38 38 30 39 28 44 36 50 32 36
      Letters 11 12 12 8 10 14 9 11 10 14
      Foreign languages and literature 8 10 3 8 4 7 10 13 3 4
      History 9 3 4 10 4 7 6 13 8 11
      Philosophy and religious studies 4 6 1 8 . 10 3 3 2 2
      Music and performing arts 3 4 4 3 7 6 7 8 8 1
      Humanities and arts, other 3 3 6 2 3 . 1 2 1 4
    Other non-science and engineering 10 8 13 9 6 2 5 7 1 2
      Communication 5 6 9 7 4 2 5 7 1 2
      Public administration and social services 3 2 2 . 1 . . . . .
      Non-science and engineering, other 2 . 2 2 1 . . . . .

NOTES:
  • . = 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