Graduate School Completion

The primary fields in which students earned research doctoral degrees in 2021 were STEM (42.3 percent) and education (17.7 percent), while health (64.2 percent) and law (29.4 percent) were the primary fields for professional or other doctoral degrees.

• Among research doctoral degree recipients, 70.2 percent of international students earned a degree in STEM fields, while 12.9 percent of Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander students and 10.0 percent of Black or African American students did so.
• Of students with a research doctoral degree who studied education, 40.4 percent of Black or African American and 38.8 percent of Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander did so, versus 10.8 percent of Asian students and 3.6 percent of international students.
• Among professional and other doctoral degree recipients, 83.9 percent of Asian students studied health fields.
• Nearly four in 10 American Indian or Alaska Native (38.8 percent) and Hispanic or Latino (37.9 percent) students earned a professional or other doctoral degree in law, while 13.3 percent of Asian students did so.