The largest share of doctorates were earned in the life sciences, and the median time to earn degrees in that field was one of the lowest, at 6.9 years. More than a quarter of all doctorate recipients with definite postdoctoral employment plans expected to work in business or industry; more than half of those in engineering and physical sciences with such plans expected to do so, but less than 5 percent of those in education or the humanities with such plans expected to do so.
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