Statistics of PhDs produced in each field?

[daigo]

Does anyone have sources on how many PhDs of each field is being produced each year? i.e. how many physics PhDs graduate each other, how many in mathematics, etc.

 

[chiro]

Hey daigo and welcome to the forums.

This might help for physics (if you are in the US)

http://www.aip.org/statistics/

 

[eri]

Here's a bunch of statistics by general field.

http://chronicle.com/article/Characteristics-of-Recipients/47071/

The NORC website might have it broken down by specialty. I think it's interesting to see that the average time in graduate school for someone in the physical sciences is 6.7 years (lowest of any field) and that on average it takes an education grad student almost 13 years to complete a doctorate! I wonder where the division is between full-time and part-time work on the doctorate (while physics is almost always full-time, education is usually part-time).

 

[daigo]

Here's a bunch of statistics by general field.

http://chronicle.com/article/Characteristics-of-Recipients/47071/

The NORC website might have it broken down by specialty. I think it's interesting to see that the average time in graduate school for someone in the physical sciences is 6.7 years (lowest of any field) and that on average it takes an education grad student almost 13 years to complete a doctorate! I wonder where the division is between full-time and part-time work on the doctorate (while physics is almost always full-time, education is usually part-time).

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