Data

U. Colorado Denver

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 148 130 146 122 129 100 105 97 100 103
  Science and engineering 135 124 134 108 114 88 96 89 89 96
    Agricultural sciences and natural resources . 1 . . 1 1 1 . 1 .
      Agricultural sciences . . . . . . 1 . . .
      Natural resources and conservation . 1 . . 1 1 . . 1 .
    Biological and biomedical sciences 80 62 85 65 59 45 55 45 64 56
      Biochemistry and biophysics 1 . 2 . . 1 2 1 3 4
      Biology and biomedical sciences, general . 2 5 2 2 2 3 . 2 2
      Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology 13 5 5 3 6 3 1 2 8 3
      Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy 6 6 10 7 2 5 5 6 3 7
      Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology 1 10 5 8 4 4 5 3 4 2
      Genetics and genomics 2 2 2 3 1 3 4 2 3 1
      Microbiology and immunology 14 11 14 9 13 6 11 10 13 10
      Molecular biology 14 5 12 14 10 3 6 6 8 6
      Neurobiology and neurosciences 11 7 12 4 7 8 4 5 5 8
      Pharmacology and toxicology 9 7 8 9 9 2 7 4 7 6
      Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology 8 7 10 6 5 8 7 6 8 5
      Biology and biomedical sciences, other 1 . . . . . . . . 2
    Computer and information sciences 5 5 4 1 3 1 . 2 4 1
      Computer science 1 . 1 1 . 1 . . 1 .
      Computer and information sciences, other 4 5 3 . 3 . . 2 3 1
    Engineering 7 15 10 14 12 8 7 11 5 8
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering . . . 1 . . . . . .
      Bioengineering and biomedical engineering 1 3 5 5 3 4 1 6 2 1
      Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering . 5 2 4 3 1 2 3 1 4
      Electrical and computer engineering 1 1 . 4 3 . . 1 1 1
      Mechanical engineering 2 1 . . 3 3 3 . 1 1
      Engineering, other 3 5 3 . . . 1 1 . 1
    Health sciences 25 21 22 17 26 22 28 20 8 18
      Nursing science 8 2 10 5 12 6 7 5 2 3
      Pharmaceutical sciences 8 4 3 4 3 2 3 2 2 4
      Public health 4 2 5 2 2 10 9 4 2 8
      Health sciences, other 5 13 4 6 9 4 9 9 2 3
    Mathematics and statistics 11 2 5 5 5 4 2 2 1 2
      Applied mathematics 10 2 5 4 5 4 1 2 1 1
      Mathematics . . . . . . . . . .
      Statistics 1 . . . . . 1 . . .
      Mathematics and statistics, other . . . 1 . . . . . 1
    Physical sciences . . . . . 1 . . 1 .
      Chemistry . . . . . . . . 1 .
      Physics . . . . . 1 . . . .
    Psychology 5 11 7 1 6 6 2 3 3 5
      Clinical psychology 1 2 3 1 2 5 1 3 . 2
      Counseling and applied psychology 4 7 2 . 3 1 1 . . 2
      Research and experimental psychology . 2 2 . 1 . . . . .
      Psychology, other . . . . . . . . 3 1
    Social sciences 2 7 1 5 2 . 1 6 2 6
      Economics . 3 . . . . . . . .
      Public policy analysis . 2 1 3 1 . . 5 1 3
      Social sciences, other 2 2 . 2 1 . 1 1 1 3
  Non-science and engineering 13 6 12 14 15 12 9 8 11 7
    Business . . 1 1 . . 1 2 2 .
      Business . . 1 1 . . 1 2 2 .
    Education 3 2 8 9 9 6 5 2 2 3
      Education leadership and administration 1 . 3 . 1 2 . 2 . .
      Education research 1 2 3 1 . 1 . . . .
      Teacher education and teaching fields 1 . 1 1 3 1 4 . 2 1
      Education, other . . 1 7 5 2 1 . . 2
    Humanities and arts 1 . . . 1 . . . . .
      Philosophy and religious studies . . . . 1 . . . . .
      Humanities and arts, other 1 . . . . . . . . .
    Other non-science and engineering 9 4 3 4 5 6 3 4 7 4
      Public administration and social services 7 4 2 4 4 4 3 2 5 4
      Non-science and engineering, other 2 . 1 . 1 2 . 2 2 .

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