Annual Ph.D. production relative to its educational requirements in business equal 1.7 graduating PhDs per thousand student-years, exactly one-tenth the relative magnitude of higher education overall (17.5) and one-quarter the next lowest discipline (humanities at 6.6).
Degrees 2016-2017 | Total degrees | Humanities | Social Sciences | Nat Sci & Math | Comp Sci & Eng | Education | Business | Other Fields |
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Bachelor’s | 1,956,032 | 270,643 | 275,960 | 172,100 | 205,181 | 85,118 | 381,353 | 565,677 |
Master’s | 804,684 | 57,839 | 47,557 | 32,513 | 106,799 | 145,680 | 187,404 | 226,892 |
PhD | 181,352 | 8,119 | 11,408 | 16,039 | 12,505 | 12,687 | 3,329 | 117,265 |
Bachelor’s x4 | 7,824,128 | 1,082,572 | 1,103,840 | 688,400 | 820,724 | 340,472 | 1,525,412 | 2,262,708 |
Master’s x2 | 1,609,368 | 115,678 | 95,114 | 65,026 | 213,598 | 291,360 | 374,808 | 453,784 |
PhD x5 | 906,760 | 40,595 | 57,040 | 80,195 | 62,525 | 63,435 | 16,645 | 586,325 |
Student-Years | 10,340,256 | 1,238,845 | 1,255,994 | 833,621 | 1,096,847 | 695,267 | 1,916,865 | 3,302,817 |
Ph.D. Grad/Student-Years | 17.5 | 6.6 | 9.1 | 19.2 | 11.4 | 18.2 | 1.7 | 35.5 |