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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: 2013
All fields
Life
sciencesa
Physical
sciencesb
Social
sciencesc
Engineering
Education
Humanities
Otherd
31,545
25.1
7,938
18.2
4,567
10.3
5,763
39.8
3,457
9.5
3,801
36.4
4,202
30.8
1,817
39.2
1,970
33.1
523
25.0
215
18.1
394
48.5
177
11.9
247
44.1
309
35.6
105
49.5
111
35.1
25
D
D
D
27
40.7
5
0.0
23
43.5
21
57.1
D
D
2,750
12.5
840
9.5
447
6.5
367
25.1
542
6.5
209
20.1
181
17.7
164
20.7
2,028
50.9
496
39.9
133
27.8
428
62.6
157
15.3
491
61.5
154
59.1
169
66.3
23,375
23.6
5,730
17.2
3,573
9.7
4,292
37.9
2,439
9.8
2,694
31.6
3,344
29.9
1,303
37.0
819
27.5
208
19.2
112
6.3
183
42.6
83
6.0
78
51.3
113
26.5
42
59.5
246
23.2
56
D
D
D
34
38.2
29
10.3
34
58.8
39
23.1
D
D
246
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
22.4
D = suppressed to avoid disclosure of confidential information.
60
10.0
42
16.7
38
39.5
25
12.0
25
36.0
41
26.8
15
26.7
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 (%)
Two or more races
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
Other race or race not reported
Total (number)e
Debt > $30,000 (%)
Ethnicity not reported
a
b
c
d
e
Includes agricultural sciences and natural resources; biological, biomedical sciences; and health sciences.
Includes mathematics and computer and information sciences.
Includes psychology.
Non-science and engineering fields not shown separately.
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, 2013.