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TABLE 41. U.S. citizen and permanent resident doctorate recipients with graduate-school debt, by broad field of study, ethnicity, and race: 2014
All fields
Life
sciencesa
Physical
sciencesb
Social
sciencesc
Engineering
Education
Humanities
Otherd
31,792
25.4
7,939
18.3
4,770
11.1
5,816
40.0
3,782
8.7
3,625
39.3
4,083
32.2
1,777
40.0
2,029
32.5
484
21.5
261
17.2
416
48.1
225
12.0
237
49.8
294
38.1
112
48.2
91
34.1
20
30.0
13
D
21
52.4
5
0.0
D
D
13
D
D
D
2,759
11.5
834
10.6
478
6.1
379
24.8
556
5.0
184
17.4
179
12.8
149
16.1
2,050
53.6
476
45.2
167
29.9
395
66.3
156
22.4
498
65.7
152
48.0
206
66.5
23,590
23.9
5,807
16.7
3,655
10.4
4,376
38.2
2,686
8.6
2,550
34.6
3,269
32.0
1,247
37.4
844
28.2
224
21.9
120
11.7
163
41.7
101
D
87
49.4
114
33.3
35
D
230
22.6
53
20.8
41
D
34
35.3
35
D
D
D
32
D
D
23.1
199
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
22.6
D = suppressed to avoid disclosure of confidential information.
41
26.8
35
11.4
32
28.1
18
5.6
30
30.0
30
26.7
13
23.1
Debt level, ethnicity, and race
All U.S. citizen and permanent
resident doctorate recipients
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
Hispanic or Latino
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
Not Hispanic or Latino
American Indian or Alaska Native
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
Asian
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
Black or African American
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
White
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
More than one race
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
Other race or race not reported
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
Ethnicity not reported
a
Includes agricultural sciences and natural resources; biological, biomedical sciences; and health sciences.
b
Includes mathematics and computer and information sciences.
c
Includes psychology.
d
Non-science and engineering fields not shown separately.
e
Includes all persons who responded to the graduate-school debt question.
NOTE: Percentages were calculated on number of cases in category.
SOURCE: NSF, NIH, USED, USDA, NEH, NASA, Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2014.