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II-31b: Share of New Doctorate Recipients without Graduate Education Debt, By Field, Graduation Years 2004–2020

* Life sciences includes agricultural sciences and natural resources; biological and biomedical sciences; and health sciences.
** Included mathematics and computer science in 2004.

Source: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities (Data Tables; years 2014, 2015, and 2020), Table 39, https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/doctorates/ (accessed 2/15/2022). Data analyzed and presented by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

 

 

The data on which this indicator is based are collected as part of the federal Survey of Earned Doctorates, a national census of recently graduated doctorate recipients.

This indicator looks only at graduate study debt, although the SED also collects data on debt from undergraduate study.

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