Do you know how many scholars have already obtained PhD degree from your discipline? If not, you will find answer about this query in this post.
Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) have been involved to carry out the survey on Science and technology in Nepal. Recently they have updated the profile of PhD Scholars in Science & Technology sector.
The distribution of PhD personnel by discipline and ethnic groups is as follows.
Table 1: Distribution of PhD personnel of Nepal in different discipline of Science and Technology
| Discipline | Number of PhD personnel |
| Agriculture | 237 |
| Engineering | 213 |
| Botany | 114 |
| Chemistry | 120 |
| Medicine | 82 |
| Physics | 70 |
| Zoology | 43 |
| Veterinary | 35 |
| Mathematics | 31 |
| Geology | 30 |
| Forestry | 19 |
| Microbiology | 19 |
| Statistics | 17 |
| Biology | 12 |
| Environment | 9 |
| Natural Science | 7 |
| Food Technology | 4 |
| Public Health | 4 |
PhD personnel by ethnic groups
| Ethnic group | Number of PhD personnel |
| Madhesi | 129 |
| Janajati | 358 |
| Dalit | 9 |
| Others (Brahaman, Chhetri etc) | 570 |
