{"id":4847,"date":"2012-02-23T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2012-02-23T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T20:37:14","slug":"lots-of-different-disciplines-top-state-doctorates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/23\/lots-of-different-disciplines-top-state-doctorates\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of Different Disciplines Top State Doctorates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4848\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/doctorates.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4848\" title=\"Doctorates\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/doctorates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/doctorates.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/doctorates-500x341.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/doctorates-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/doctorates-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Source: State Regents for Higher Education<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>We&#8217;ve been examining the types of degrees granted most recently at state colleges and universities. When it comes to fields of study, doctorates appear the most diverse, data show.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Like it was with master&#8217;s degrees, education was the most-common doctorate degree granted in 2008-2009, the most recent data from the State Regents for Higher Education show.<\/p><p>Considerably fewer doctorates are granted, so the range is significantly narrower. For example: 1,257 master&#8217;s in education were awarded in 2008-2009, but only 59 doctorate degrees.<\/p><p>The doctoral track also changes the range of studies. Business and management, for example, which ranked No. 2 in <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/21\/ok-masters-degrees-teachers-are-tops\/#more-4812\">most-common master&#8217;s degrees<\/a> but slid to the No. 7 slot when it comes to doctorates.<\/p><p>Conversely, physical sciences \u2014 physics and chemistry, primarily \u2014 rank No. 5 on the doctorate list and No. 10 when it comes to master&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Top 10 Doctorates Granted by State Universities<\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Field<\/th>\n<th>Number<\/th>\n<th>%<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1.<\/td>\n<td>Education<\/td>\n<td>59<\/td>\n<td>14.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2.<\/td>\n<td>Psychology<\/td>\n<td>53<\/td>\n<td>13.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.<\/td>\n<td>Biological and Biomedical Sciences<\/td>\n<td>51<\/td>\n<td>12.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4.<\/td>\n<td>Engineering<\/td>\n<td>42<\/td>\n<td>10.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5.<\/td>\n<td>Physical Sciences<\/td>\n<td>40<\/td>\n<td>10.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6.<\/td>\n<td>Social Science<\/td>\n<td>23<\/td>\n<td>5.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7.<\/td>\n<td>Business and Management<\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>4.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8.<\/td>\n<td>Family and Consumer Sciences<\/td>\n<td>14<\/td>\n<td>3.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9.<\/td>\n<td>Visual and Performing Arts<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>3.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10.<\/td>\n<td>Agricultural Business and Management<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>3.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been examining the types of degrees granted most recently at state colleges and universities. When it comes to fields of study, doctorates appear the most diverse, data show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":4848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,15],"tags":[855,272,317],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4854,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions\/4854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}