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Bachelor's Degrees in Selected Social Sciences
 This series of three charts shows the cycles of decline and growth in degrees awarded in the social sciences over the past three decades. In sociology, the greatest number of degrees were awarded during the 1970s. The discipline experienced declines throughout the 1980s, but it rebounded in the 1990s. In the late 1990s, the number of bachelor's degrees awarded in sociology surpassed the number awarded in economics. Although the number of doctorates awarded in sociology increased by 2003 while economics and psychology experienced slight declines, the number of PhDs in sociology remains substantially lower than the other selected social science disciplines.
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A tabular version of this data in EXCEL format is available here.
Source: US Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data (IPEDS) Completions, 1966 - 2006 (Washington, DC: NCES, 2008). Retrieved from https://webscaspar.nsf.gov (June 1, 2008).
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