How many graduates are there from college that major in math and science nationally?

Question

Not by school, nationally in the US.

Answer 1

I'm interested in these numbers myself.

Looking at the Department of Education, I found that there are about 1.4MM bachelors degrees given out each year -- but couldn't find the number of science degrees.

I did find a web page that stated that there were about 25,000 math degrees granted per year in the 1970s. That number dropped to about 10,000 in 1980 and went up to about 16,000 in the lat 1980s. There are two likely reasons for the drop in the early 1980s. The first is that most of the Baby Boom had graduated college, so there were fewer students. The second is that there were very few schools that offered a computer science degree in the 1970s -- so those interested in CS would study math. In the 1980s, they got a CS degree.