The total number of doctorate recipients grew from 8,773 in 1958 to 54,664 in 2017. That represents a slight decrease since the 60-year high of 54,901 recipients in 2015. From 2010 to 2017, the number of doctorate recipients has grown nearly 14 percent. Most of that growth was in science and engineering fields, in which the number of recipients increased more than 18 percent. The number of recipients in non-science and -engineering fields grew only 1.5 percent in the seven-year span. In 2017, doctorates in science and engineering fields represented slightly more than three-quarters of all doctorate recipients, compared with just under two-thirds in 1958.
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