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Number of science and engineering doctoral degrees keeps climbing

by Andrea Widener
April 11, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 15

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Source: NSF, Doctoral recipients from U.S. universities: 2014
A bar graph showing that science & engineering doctoral degrees have reached record highs.
Source: NSF, Doctoral recipients from U.S. universities: 2014

U.S. universitites awarded a record high 54,070 doctoral degrees in 2014, with science and engineering fields continuing their rise to 75% of all doctoral degrees, according to a recent NSF report. After a dip in the early 2000s, physical science doctorates have been on the rise, and chemistry is no exception.

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