Data

Villanova U.

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	30	32	35	19	28	24	19	32	27	22
Science and engineering	17	21	22	9	20	17	14	19	14	10
Agricultural sciences and natural resources	.	.	.	2	.	1	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	.	.	.	2	.	1	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	.	2	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Biology and biomedical sciences, general	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Genetics and genomics	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biology and biomedical sciences, other	.	.	1	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Engineering	12	13	15	3	13	15	6	11	9	4
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering	.	.	2	.	.	1	.	1	.	.
Chemical and petroleum engineering	1	2	2	1	1	1	.	2	.	1
Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering	5	4	2	.	4	1	1	2	2	.
Electrical and computer engineering	2	1	3	.	2	4	1	4	3	2
Industrial engineering and operations research	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Materials and mining engineering	.	1	.	1	.	.	1	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	4	3	4	.	6	8	1	2	4	1
Engineering, other	.	1	2	1	.	.	2	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	2	.	.	1
Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	2	.	.	1
Health sciences	5	6	6	4	5	1	6	8	5	5
Nursing science	5	6	6	3	5	1	6	8	5	5
Pharmaceutical sciences	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Chemistry	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	.	.	.
Non-science and engineering	13	11	13	10	8	7	5	13	13	12
Education	1	5	4	8	1	5	1	10	4	2
Education leadership and administration	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.
Teacher education and teaching fields	1	5	4	8	1	5	1	9	4	1
Education, other	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1
Humanities and arts	12	6	9	2	7	2	4	3	9	10
Philosophy and religious studies	8	3	7	2	7	2	4	3	9	9
Humanities and arts, other	4	3	2	.	.	.	.	.	.	1

NOTES:

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