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Home  › Resources  › Data on the Profession  › Enrollments Political Science Enrollments and Degrees Conferred DATA AND CHARTS The charts and spreadsheets below show information gathered from both the National Center for Education Statistics' Digest of Education Statistics and the Survey of Earned Doctorates, a federal agency survey conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center for the National Science Foundation and five other federal agencies (National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.  For more information on these, and to review additional data and findings, see: Digest of Education Statistics Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED)   Degrees Conferred in Political Science, 1990-2006 (includes gender breakdowns) Bachelor's degrees chart (PDF) Master's degrees chart (PDF) Doctoral degrees chart (PDF) All degrees awarded charts and data (Excel or PDF ) Earned Social Science Degrees Conferred by Major, 1949-2006 (includes comparative data with sociology, history, and economics) Bachelor's degrees chart (PDF) Master's degrees chart (PDF) Doctoral degrees chart (PDF) All degrees earned charts and data  (Excel or PDF) National Science Foundation Median Time to Degree Data Series (data from the SED) Time to Degree of U.S. Research Doctorate Recipients Median Total Time to Ph.D. by Broad Field, 1973-2003 Median Total Time to Ph.D. by Academic Source of Support, 2003 Median Total Time to Ph.D. by Master's Degree Status, 2003 See also: Graduate Student Data  "Political Science Enrollment and Majors: An Update," 2002, by Sheilah Mann, former APSA Director of Education and Professional Development. This information was presented as part of the 2000 Annual Meeting Workshop for Chairs.