File nsf21308 - Report
Figure 1 - Doctorates awarded by U.S. colleges and universities: 1958–2019
Figure 2 - Doctorates awarded in S&E fields, by citizenship: 2000–19
Figure 3 - Top 10 countries of foreign citizenship for doctorate recipients with temporary visas: 2010–19
Figure 4 - Sex and citizenship of doctorate recipients: 2000–19
Figure 5 - Sex and field of study of doctorate recipients: 2000–19
Figure 6 - Doctorates earned by underrepresented minority U.S. citizens and permanent residents: 2010–19
Figure 7 - Doctorates awarded in S&E broad fields of study: 2000–19
Figure 8 - Doctorates awarded in non-S&E broad fields of study: 2000–19
Figure 9 - Doctorate recipients on temporary visas: 2000 and 2019
Figure 10 - Doctorates awarded to minority U.S. citizens or permanent residents, by race, ethnicity, and broad field of study: 2019
Figure 11 - Doctorates awarded to women, by broad field of study: 2000 and 2019
Figure 12 - Fastest changing fields of study for female doctorate recipients and rates of change: 2010–19
Figure 13 - Doctorates awarded, by highest parental educational attainment: 2000–19
Figure 14 - Parental educational attainment of U.S. citizen or permanent resident doctorate recipients, by race and ethnicity: 2000 and 2019
Figure 15 - Primary source of financial support for doctorate recipients: 2019
Figure 16 - Primary source of financial support for doctorate recipients, by broad field of study: 2019
Figure 17 - Graduate debt of doctorate recipients, by broad field of study: 2019
Figure 18 - Median expected basic annual salary and median cumulative education-related debt for debt-holding doctorate recipients with definite employment commitments in the United States, by field of study: 2019
Figure 19 - Median time to degree of doctorate recipients, by broad field of study: 2000–19
Figure 20 - Definite commitments among doctorate recipients, by S&E broad field of study: 2000–19
Figure 21 - Definite commitments among doctorate recipients, by non-S&E broad field of study: 2000–19
Figure 22 - Definite employment commitments in academe in the United States, by broad field of study: 2000 and 2019
Figure 23 - U.S. postdoctorate rate for doctorate recipients, by broad field of study: Selected years, 2000–19
Figure 24 - Median expected basic annual salary of doctorate recipients with definite commitments in the United States, by position type and broad field of study: 2019
Figure 25 - Temporary visa holder doctorate recipients with definite commitments in the United States, by broad field of study: Selected years, 2000–19
Figure 26 - Doctorate recipients who earned college credit at a community or 2-year college, by area of study: 2004–19
Figure 27 - Doctorate recipients who earned college credit at a community or 2-year college and who earned an associate's degree, by field of study: 2017–19
Figure 28 - Doctorate recipients with college credit at a community or 2-year college, by sex, citizenship status, race and ethnicity, and highest parental educational attainment: 2019
Figure 29 - Institutional yield ratios based on S&E doctorate recipients, by 2010 Carnegie Classification of U.S. baccalaureate institution: 2019
Figure 30 - U.S. citizen and permanent resident Black or African American doctorate recipients with bachelor's degrees from an HBCU, by field of study: 1999 and 2019
Figure 31 - U.S. citizen and permanent resident Hispanic or Latino doctorate recipients with bachelor's degrees from an HHE, by field of study: 1999 and 2019
Figure 32 - Doctorate recipients who had earned a master's degree, by field of study: 1997–99 and 2017–19
Figure 33 - Doctorate recipients who stayed in the same field of study as their bachelor's or master's degrees: 2017–19
Figure 34 - Doctorate recipients with bachelor's and doctoral degrees in the same field of study: 2017–19
Figure 35 - Doctorate recipients with master's and doctoral degrees in the same field of study: 2017–19
Figure 36 - Doctorate recipients with bachelor's and doctoral degrees in the same field of study, by sex, citizenship status, and race and ethnicity: 2017–19
Figure 37 - Doctorate recipients with master's and doctoral degrees in the same field of study, by sex, citizenship status, and race and ethnicity: 2017–19
Table A - Degrees earned by doctorate recipients before their doctoral award, by degree level: 2019
Table B - Doctorate recipients earning professional doctoral degrees: 2019
Table C - Location of baccalaureate-origin institution for doctorate recipients, by citizenship and field of study: 1999 and 2019
