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Natural sciences
Main article: Natural scienceSee also: Social sciences, below
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Physical Sciences
Chemistry
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Earth sciences
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Environmental sciences
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Life Sciences
Biology
Formal sciences
Main article: Formal sciencesComputer sciences
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Linguistics
See also Branches of Computer Science and ACM Computing Classification System
Mathematics
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see also Branches of Mathematics and AMS Mathematics Subject Classification
Systems science
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Social sciences
Main article: Social sciencesSee also: Natural sciences, above
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Anthropology
Economics
Psychology
Geography
Philosophy
Not considered a science by some thinkers, instead considered a precursor of it. Several fields of philosophy are more directly relevant to the natural and social sciences than others. These include:
Political science
- Public policy
- Public administration
- Ideology
- Game theory
- Psephology (voting systems and electoral behaviour)
- Political economy
- Geopolitics and political geography
- Policy studies and public policy analysis
- Comparative politics
- National systems
- Cross-national political analysis
- Supranational and intergovernmental politics
- Globalization studies
- Political development
- International relations theory
- Foreign policy analysis
- public administration and local government studies
- Political psychology, bureaucratic, administrative and judicial behaviour
- Legislative processes and public law
- Power in international relations and the theory of great powers and superpowers.
- Political science of religion
- Research methodology
- Security Studies
- Strategic Studies
Sociology
See also Subfields of sociology
Education
Management
Applied sciences
Architecture
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Engineering
Health sciences
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Medicine
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Military Science
- Military Organisation
- Military Education and Training
- Military History
- Military Engineering
- Military Strategy and Tactics
See also
- Science
- List of fields of doctoral studies
- List of academic disciplines
- Complete Joint Academic Classification of Subjects (JACS) from Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in the United Kingdom: