It will be noted that the physical 

 sciences provided about 800 or al- 

 most half of the total number of 

 doctor's degrees in science, of which, 

 in turn, about one-half were in chem- 

 istry. The earth sciences provided an 

 additional 60 degrees. 



After the physical sciences the 

 largest number of degrees were in the 

 life sciences, with about 800 degrees 

 distributed among the several divi- 

 sions as follows: 



Medical sciences 300 



Biology _____ 307 



Agriculture 52 



Psychology ___ 114 



Anthropology 1 1 



784 



The National Roster made an in- 

 ventory of graduate students in non- 

 professional and non-vocational 

 schools and departments, as of De- 

 cember 1942, which showed the num- 

 ber then enrolled in the graduate 

 schools, divided into disciplines as 

 follows: 



Physical sciences 5,698 



Chemistry 3,045 



Geology 182 



Mathematics 545 



Meteorology 918 



Physics (electronic) 227 



Physics (non-electronic) __ 680 

 Other physical sciences. ___ 101 



Biology _____ 1,120 



Social sciences _ 3,857 



Economics 1,034 



Geography 79 



History ____ 812 



Psychology 543 



Other social studies 1,389 



Languages, literature, fine 



arts, and music 2,157 



Other major fields 486 



13,318 



It will be noted that there were 

 about 5,700 graduate students in 

 physical science and some 1,100 in 

 biology at the time of this report. 



In terms of the educational pyra- 

 mid, the total number of graduate 

 students shown above in all branches 

 of non-professional and non-voca- 

 tional graduate study form but a 

 small proportion of the total college 

 enrollments of approximately 1,400,- 

 000 in 1939-40. Moreover, the 1,649 

 who received Ph.D. degrees in the 

 sciences listed above were about one- 

 half of the total number of all Ph.D. 

 degrees (about 3,300 in 1939-40). 



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