From Question 1: In what academic discipline (field) did you receive your Ph.D.?
Participants in the 2002 Alumni Survey represented 67 different academic
disciplines. Figure 1 below lists the disciplines in alphabetic order.
Chart 1 lists them in order of frequency and percentage of survey respondents,
Chart 2 provides a bar graph of the information.
| Aeronautics and Astronautics
|
Marine Science
|
| Anthropology
|
Materials Science and Engineering
|
| Applied Mathematics
|
Mathematics
|
| Art History
|
Mechanical Engineering
|
| Asian Languages and Literature
|
Medicinal Chemistry
|
| Atmospheric Sciences
|
Microbiology
|
| Biochemistry
|
Molecular and Cellular Biology
|
| Bioengineering
|
Molecular Biotechnology
|
| Biological Structure
|
Molecular Biotechnology and Genetics
|
| Biostatistics
|
Music
|
| Botany
|
Neurology and Behavior
|
| Business Administration
|
Nursing
|
| Chemical Engineering
|
Nutritional Sciences
|
| Chemistry
|
Oceanography
|
| Civil & Environmental Engineering
|
Oral Biology
|
| Comparative Literature
|
Pathobiology
|
| Computer Science and Engineering
|
Pharmacology
|
| Earth and Space Sciences
|
Philosophy
|
| Education
|
Physics
|
| Electrical Engineering
|
Physiology and Biophysics
|
| English
|
Political Science
|
| Environmental Health
|
Psychology
|
| Epidemiology
|
Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management
|
| Fisheries
|
Scandinavian Studies
|
| Forest Resources
|
School of Communications
|
| French and Italian
|
Slavics
|
| Geography
|
Social Work
|
| Germanics
|
Sociology
|
| History
|
Spanish and Portuguese
|
| Immunology
|
Speech and Hearing Sciences
|
| Interdisciplinary
|
Speech Communication
|
| Law
|
Statistics
|
| Linguistics
|
Urban Design and Development
|
|
|
Zoology
|
|
Academic
Discipline
|
Frequency
|
Percent
|
|
Education
|
55
|
10.9
|
|
Psychology
|
27
|
5.4
|
|
English
|
26
|
5.2
|
|
Pharmacology
|
25
|
5.0
|
|
Nursing
|
22
|
4.4
|
|
Electrical
Engineering
|
17
|
3.4
|
|
Epidemiology
|
16
|
3.2
|
|
Bioengineering
|
15
|
3.0
|
|
Forest
Resources
|
15
|
3.0
|
|
Music
|
15
|
3.0
|
|
Chemistry
|
14
|
2.8
|
|
Anthropology
|
13
|
2.6
|
|
History
|
12
|
2.4
|
|
Political
Science
|
11
|
2.2
|
|
Sociology
|
11
|
2.2
|
|
Atmospheric
Sciences
|
10
|
2.0
|
|
Mechanical
Engineering
|
10
|
2.0
|
|
Computer Science and Engineering
|
9
|
1.8
|
|
Pathobiology
|
9
|
1.8
|
|
Asian
Languages and Literature
|
8
|
1.6
|
|
Business
Administration
|
7
|
1.4
|
|
Linguistics
|
7
|
1.4
|
|
Speech
Communication
|
7
|
1.4
|
|
Biochemistry
|
6
|
1.2
|
|
Civil
& Environmental Engineering
|
6
|
1.2
|
|
Comparative
Literature
|
6
|
1.2
|
|
Fisheries
|
6
|
1.2
|
|
Physics
|
6
|
1.2
|
|
Earth
and Space Sciences
|
5
|
1.0
|
|
Geography
|
5
|
1.0
|
|
Interdisciplinary
|
5
|
1.0
|
|
Microbiology
|
5
|
1.0
|
|
Molecular
and Cellular Biology
|
5
|
1.0
|
|
School
of Communications
|
5
|
1.0
|
|
Aeronautics
and Astronautics
|
4
|
0.8
|
|
Botany
|
4
|
0.8
|
|
Immunology
|
4
|
0.8
|
|
Molecular
Biotechnology and Genetics
|
4
|
0.8
|
|
Nutritional
Sciences
|
4
|
0.8
|
|
Oceanography
|
4
|
0.8
|
|
Social
Work
|
4
|
0.8
|
|
Biological
Structure
|
3
|
0.6
|
|
Chemical
Engineering
|
3
|
0.6
|
|
Germanics
|
3
|
0.6
|
|
Materials
Science and Engineering
|
3
|
0.6
|
|
Physiology
and Biophysics
|
3
|
0.6
|
|
Quantitative
Ecology and Resource Management
|
3
|
0.6
|
|
Speech
and Hearing Sciences
|
3
|
0.6
|
|
Urban
Design and Development
|
3
|
0.6
|
|
Zoology
|
3
|
0.6
|
|
Applied
Mathematics
|
2
|
0.4
|
|
Art
History
|
2
|
0.4
|
|
Biostatistics
|
2
|
0.4
|
|
Environmental
Health
|
2
|
0.4
|
|
French
and Italian
|
2
|
0.4
|
|
Mathematics
|
2
|
0.4
|
|
Neurology
and Behavior
|
2
|
0.4
|
|
Oral
Biology
|
2
|
0.4
|
|
Statistics
|
2
|
0.4
|
|
Law
|
1
|
0.2
|
|
Marine
Science
|
1
|
0.2
|
|
Medicinal
Chemistry
|
1
|
0.2
|
|
Molecular
Biotechnology
|
1
|
0.2
|
|
Philosophy
|
1
|
0.2
|
|
Scandinavian
Studies
|
1
|
0.2
|
|
Slavics
|
1
|
0.2
|
|
Spanish
and Portuguese
|
1
|
0.2
|
|
Not
given
|
1
|
0.2
|
|
TOTAL
|
503
|
100.0
|
