Appendix E
Classification of Ph.D. Fields
BASIC BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
Anatomy
Bacteriology
Biochemistry
Biological Immunology
Biological Sciences, General
Biological Sciences, Other
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Sciences
Biophysics
Biotechnology Research
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology/Embryology
Endocrinology
Genetics, Human and Animal
Medicinal/Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Microbiology
Molecular Biology
Neuroscience
Nutritional Sciences
Parasitology
Pathology, Human and Animal
Pharmacology, Human and Animal
Physiology
Toxicology
Veterinary Medicine
Zoology
CLINICAL SCIENCES
Biometrics and Biostatistics
Environmental Health
Epidemiology
Exercise Physiology/Science
Health Sciences, General
Health Sciences, Other
Health Systems/Services Administration
Nursing
Pharmacy
Public Health
Rehabilitation/Therapeutic Services
BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology
Audiology and Speech Pathology
Demography/Population Studies
Sociology
Psychology
Cognitive and Psycholinguistics
Comparative
Developmental and Child
Educational
Experimental
Industrial and Organizational
Personality
Psychology, General
Psychology, Other
Psychometrics
Physiological/Psychobiology
Quantitative
Social
NOTE: These are fields in which Ph.D.s are awarded, as classified by the Survey of Earned Doctorates, the annual census of doctoral recipients from U.S. universities that has been conducted from 1920 to the present. The same field names are used in the Survey of Doctoral Recipients, the biennial workforce survey of U.S. science and engineering Ph.D.s. Analyses of Ph.D. production and the employment patterns of biomedical, behavioral, and clinical scientists conducted for this report also incorporated field names comparable to those identified here but no longer in use (e.g., the combined field of microbiology and bacteriology, which was eliminated in 1983 and replaced by the two distinct fields listed above).
