Percentage of Foreign Doctoral-Degree Recipients at U.S. Institutions, by Field, 2011
| Field of study | Total | Number foreign | Share foreign |
| Life sciences | 11,467 | 3,005 | 26.2% |
| Physical sciences | 8,678 | 3,438 | 39.6% |
| Social sciences | 8,120 | 1,580 | 19.5% |
| Engineering | 8,004 | 4,161 | 52.0% |
| Education | 4,691 | 499 | 10.6% |
| Humanities | 5,214 | 750 | 14.4% |
| Other | 2,836 | 812 | 28.6% |
| All fields | 49,010 | 14,245 | 29.1% |
Note: Life sciences include agricultural sciences/natural resources, biological/biomedical sciences, and health sciences. Physical sciences include mathematics and computer and information sciences. Social sciences include psychology. The “other” category includes all the nonscience and nonengineering fields that are not shown separately. Foreign students are defined as those who hold temporary visas and are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent residents. The citizenship status of a small percentage of the total number of doctoral recipients was unknown.
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