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Below are the U.S. universities granting graduate degrees in psychometrics and econometrics from 2010-2013 as reported to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Since we know there are many more psychometrics programs and econometrics programs across the U.S., one can assume that universities (and specifically their institutional research offices) are not categorizing psychometrics and econometrics degrees using the NCES CIP codes:

42.2708     Psychometrics and Quantitative Psychology
45.0603     Econometrics and Quantitative Economics

The APA Report of the Task Force for Increasing the Number of Quantitative Psychologists reported the number of PhD's in quantitative psychology mostly in the range of 20-30 for 1980-2005 (see p. 48), based on the NSF data.

Table 1: Graduate Psychometrics degrees granted in the U.S. 2010-2013 as reported to NCES ​

Psychometrics Master's	2010	2011	2012	2013
Capella University	7	13	14	11
William Carey University	2	1	1	0
Total	9	14	15	11
Psychometrics PhD's	2010	2011	2012	2013
James Madison University	9	2	1	4
Fordham University		5		8
Morgan State University				1
Total	9	7	1	13

Table 2: Graduate Econometrics degrees granted in the U.S. 2010-2013 as reported to NCES ​

Econometrics Master's	2010	2011	2012	2013
University of Cincinnati			22	20
Air Force Institute of Technology	9	5	10	5
University of Utah	2	5	4	6
Rutgers University				6
University of Delaware				8
Columbia University				7
Utah State University			1	1
Total	11	10	37	53
Econometrics PhD's	2010	2011	2012	2013
Rutgers University				10
University of Delaware				5
Total	0	0	0	15

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I looked up these programs in response to a comment on my July 2014 blog, Categorization of Statistics Degrees through CIP Codes and Growth in Statistics-Related Degrees, suggesting that I also looked at the statistics-intensive programs of econometrics and psychometrics.

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