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Table 36. Doctorate recipients’ sources of financial support, by broad field of study and sex: 2015
(Percent)

Financial resource All fields Life sciencesa Physical sciences and earth sciences Mathematics and computer sciences Psychology and social sciences Engineering Education Humanities and arts Otherb
Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female
Unduplicated total (number)c 26,214 22,359 5,002 6,280 3,530 1,781 2,554 808 3,288 4,518 6,782 2,038 1,391 3,068 2,421 2,513 1,246 1,353
Fellowship or scholarship 58.5 62.5 62.3 64.5 56.8 63.3 53.1 55.8 68.2 65.3 50.0 59.5 38.5 43.7 79.2 80.6 60.8 60.6
Grant 34.7 38.4 49.3 49.8 36.8 45.0 27.4 30.3 36.6 36.9 28.4 35.2 20.3 21.1 39.0 41.4 22.6 25.1
Assistantship
Teaching 65.7 62.3 48.6 47.2 84.5 85.6 80.3 80.9 77.0 73.5 57.6 59.6 33.6 37.2 83.0 87.2 67.5 67.8
Research 66.3 56.9 61.1 57.4 86.6 86.8 72.6 67.2 58.0 58.1 82.3 81.5 32.7 36.1 31.1 34.7 57.5 56.6
Other 5.2 7.9 3.5 3.5 2.7 3.6 3.4 4.0 9.0 13.0 3.2 3.6 10.8 12.7 10.2 12.3 7.0 6.7
Traineeship 3.2 5.1 9.5 11.0 1.7 3.1 1.4 2.7 3.0 5.0 1.9 4.7 0.6 1.0 0.6 0.6 0.5 1.0
Internship or clinical residency 6.6 7.3 2.4 1.7 3.4 3.8 16.9 16.2 8.6 20.1 10.0 9.7 3.4 4.2 1.6 2.5 1.3 2.0
Loan (any source) 22.0 30.5 18.5 20.7 13.4 13.0 10.6 7.7 40.6 47.3 10.8 8.6 46.2 45.6 40.2 40.8 33.4 35.5
Personal sources
Savings 37.6 43.2 33.0 35.5 25.2 26.4 31.8 29.8 51.9 53.7 29.2 25.9 57.6 55.0 53.0 53.9 58.7 53.2
Other earnings during graduate school 22.8 31.2 16.5 20.5 11.8 9.8 17.4 14.4 35.7 40.9 12.0 9.9 50.7 52.2 49.2 50.3 31.6 35.3
Spouse's, partner's, or family's earnings or savings 25.5 36.9 23.2 29.5 16.5 20.6 19.2 24.6 37.2 49.1 18.7 21.8 30.0 42.6 44.8 51.1 37.5 43.4
Employer reimbursement or assistance 8.6 9.6 7.0 9.5 5.3 4.7 7.5 7.1 8.3 7.0 7.9 5.6 26.2 22.8 8.4 5.3 12.3 10.3
Foreign (non-U.S.) support 6.3 4.2 5.9 3.9 4.3 3.4 6.3 6.1 7.0 3.7 7.6 6.0 4.3 2.8 5.6 5.5 7.9 5.8
Other 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.0 0.0
a Includes agricultural sciences and natural resources; biological and biomedical sciences; and health sciences.
b Non-science and engineering fields not shown separately.
c The 3,382 male doctorate recipients and 3,044 female doctorate recipients who did not report sources of support are omitted from this total. Also omitted from this total are 7 doctorate recipients who did not report sex. Percentages based on known responses.
NOTES: In this table a respondent counts once in each source category from which he or she received support. Because students indicate multiple sources of support, percentages sum to more than 100.
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2015.