NCSES GSS 2012 GSS2012 19

Table 19. Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health in doctorate-granting institutions, by field and primary source of support: 2006–12

Field	2006	2007old^a	2007new^a	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
All surveyed fields	393,138	403,722	409,421	422,287	428,856	433,252	430,623	433,177
Federal	82,901	80,403	80,691	76,903	80,244	85,272	84,259	80,035
DOD	8,826	8,809	8,820	8,180	8,649	9,172	9,052	8,689
DOE	4,469	4,277	4,280	4,335	4,601	5,500	5,724	5,339
HHS	31,028	29,852	29,904	28,354	28,638	29,757	27,814	26,067
NIH	27,543	26,885	26,918	25,913	26,454	27,521	25,613	24,155
Other HHS	3,485	2,967	2,986	2,441	2,184	2,236	2,201	1,912
NASA	2,352	2,309	2,312	2,328	2,418	2,459	2,375	2,160
NSF	20,255	19,668	19,713	19,805	21,602	23,139	24,123	24,134
USDA	2,994	2,790	2,804	2,759	2,697	3,041	2,854	2,661
Other	12,977	12,698	12,858	11,142	11,639	12,204	12,317	10,985
Nonfederal	182,496	188,778	191,992	199,764	198,999	197,668	199,581	204,641
Institutional	154,856	162,019	165,084	174,047	172,414	171,734	173,723	177,377
Domestic	25,017	23,901	24,041	21,962	22,666	21,822	21,314	22,194
Foreign	2,623	2,858	2,867	3,755	3,919	4,112	4,544	5,070
Self-support	127,741	134,541	136,738	145,620	149,613	150,312	146,783	148,501
Science and engineering	331,382	342,430	350,133	362,344	376,569	386,384	388,995	392,563
Federal	73,692	71,927	73,048	70,383	74,728	79,554	79,493	76,106
DOD	8,465	8,475	8,497	7,864	8,411	8,898	8,851	8,531
DOE	4,442	4,241	4,246	4,311	4,587	5,476	5,704	5,321
HHS	24,331	23,621	24,461	23,947	24,682	25,586	24,660	23,349
NIH	23,286	22,602	23,425	22,829	23,521	24,349	23,287	22,106
Other HHS	1,045	1,019	1,036	1,118	1,161	1,237	1,373	1,243
NASA	2,338	2,301	2,305	2,320	2,415	2,366	2,364	2,150
NSF	19,972	19,446	19,515	19,599	21,433	22,946	23,927	24,010
USDA	2,896	2,715	2,715	2,691	2,616	2,941	2,760	2,571
Other	11,248	11,128	11,309	9,651	10,584	11,341	11,227	10,174
Nonfederal	165,667	170,553	174,434	183,273	183,782	183,532	186,486	191,590
Institutional	141,069	146,694	150,326	159,833	159,636	159,696	162,473	166,148
Domestic	22,156	21,248	21,483	19,933	20,519	20,067	19,916	20,854
Foreign	2,442	2,611	2,625	3,507	3,627	3,769	4,097	4,588
Self-support	92,023	99,950	102,651	108,688	118,059	123,298	123,016	124,867
Science	246,248	252,596	259,222	267,267	275,074	279,950	283,914	285,611
Federal	52,441	51,020	51,974	49,682	51,903	54,399	54,386	51,964
DOD	3,134	3,206	3,185	3,100	3,193	3,466	3,493	3,352
DOE	2,508	2,484	2,482	2,475	2,523	2,782	2,873	2,729
HHS	21,850	21,002	21,835	21,165	21,731	22,256	21,476	20,391
NIH	20,940	20,138	20,954	20,180	20,758	21,248	20,329	19,352
Other HHS	910	864	881	985	973	1,008	1,147	1,039
NASA	1,292	1,302	1,298	1,304	1,295	1,367	1,364	1,238
NSF	13,065	12,818	12,791	12,761	13,808	14,578	15,410	15,365
USDA	2,564	2,411	2,415	2,392	2,333	2,606	2,476	2,308
Other	8,028	7,797	7,968	6,485	7,020	7,344	7,294	6,581
Nonfederal	125,705	129,084	132,568	138,955	138,952	138,691	142,045	146,182
Institutional	110,816	114,596	117,932	125,045	124,895	124,920	128,289	131,297
Domestic	13,283	12,921	13,075	11,866	11,909	11,566	11,426	12,254
Foreign	1,606	1,567	1,561	2,044	2,148	2,205	2,330	2,631
Self-support	68,102	72,492	74,680	78,630	84,219	86,860	87,483	87,465
Agricultural sciences	8,977	9,103	9,276	9,564	10,246	10,505	10,889	10,815
Federal	2,259	2,241	2,293	2,010	2,170	2,399	2,490	2,250
DOD	25	58	57	26	23	26	32	38
DOE	42	53	53	38	58	70	56	50
HHS	78	74	74	68	69	77	70	59
NIH	67	52	52	61	52	68	52	43
Other HHS	11	22	22	7	17	9	18	16
NASA	42	41	47	39	41	41	30	27
NSF	216	257	257	222	265	339	373	338
USDA	1,169	1,029	1,081	1,064	1,108	1,242	1,217	1,103
Other	687	729	724	553	606	604	712	635
Nonfederal	5,279	5,388	5,558	5,975	5,929	5,888	6,120	6,330
Institutional	3,993	4,169	4,320	4,716	4,606	4,528	4,866	4,985
Domestic	1,208	1,161	1,175	1,128	1,237	1,235	1,137	1,169
Foreign	78	58	63	131	86	125	117	176
Self-support	1,439	1,474	1,425	1,579	2,147	2,218	2,279	2,235
Biological sciences	57,082	58,011	58,327	58,501	59,235	60,028	59,764	61,061
Federal	22,091	20,925	20,868	19,841	20,420	21,139	20,247	19,061
DOD	360	360	356	398	402	437	401	365
DOE	213	178	177	176	198	208	184	165
HHS	16,595	15,717	15,726	15,082	15,504	15,888	14,831	13,943
NIH	16,086	15,303	15,322	14,624	15,109	15,429	14,266	13,424
Other HHS	509	414	404	458	395	459	565	519
NASA	81	65	67	51	54	65	62	53
NSF	2,204	2,118	2,119	2,123	2,279	2,367	2,562	2,598
USDA	904	901	841	791	769	830	778	765
Other	1,734	1,586	1,582	1,220	1,214	1,344	1,429	1,172
Nonfederal	27,341	28,551	28,413	29,065	28,681	28,185	28,835	30,361
Institutional	23,134	24,465	24,355	25,173	24,818	24,415	25,155	26,490
Domestic	3,918	3,816	3,792	3,515	3,401	3,268	3,197	3,314
Foreign	289	270	266	377	462	502	483	557
Self-support	7,650	8,535	9,046	9,595	10,134	10,704	10,682	11,639
Communication^a	ne	ne	4,049	4,642	5,429	5,588	6,053	6,175
Federal	ne	ne	116	91	119	137	147	133
DOD	ne	ne	8	8	19	21	24	24
DOE	ne	ne	0	0	1	1	2	4
HHS	ne	ne	23	28	27	32	23	14
NIH	ne	ne	19	24	20	22	17	11
Other HHS	ne	ne	4	4	7	10	6	3
NASA	ne	ne	0	0	0	0	0	1
NSF	ne	ne	14	19	40	48	56	48
USDA	ne	ne	7	5	5	4	5	4
Other	ne	ne	64	31	27	31	37	38
Nonfederal	ne	ne	2,512	3,028	3,222	3,185	3,545	3,576
Institutional	ne	ne	2,303	2,725	2,921	2,898	3,311	3,299
Domestic	ne	ne	185	293	289	269	217	256
Foreign	ne	ne	24	10	12	18	17	21
Self-support	ne	ne	1,421	1,523	2,088	2,266	2,361	2,466
Computer sciences	26,937	28,285	27,874	28,850	29,669	30,080	30,407	31,739
Federal	5,008	5,135	5,060	4,920	5,236	5,764	5,701	5,675
DOD	1,196	1,243	1,220	1,201	1,216	1,299	1,260	1,258
DOE	164	176	178	141	143	188	191	183
HHS	310	358	357	367	341	385	389	317
NIH	268	331	329	324	307	330	345	284
Other HHS	42	27	28	43	34	55	44	33
NASA	85	102	102	82	74	64	60	48
NSF	2,708	2,744	2,693	2,630	2,874	3,157	3,193	3,194
USDA	32	28	29	10	11	19	17	19
Other	513	484	481	489	577	652	591	656
Nonfederal	10,153	10,235	10,008	10,739	11,004	10,309	10,495	10,556
Institutional	8,528	8,740	8,648	9,451	9,574	8,911	8,930	8,831
Domestic	1,421	1,295	1,181	1,070	1,172	1,157	1,165	1,241
Foreign	204	200	179	218	258	241	400	484
Self-support	11,776	12,915	12,806	13,191	13,429	14,007	14,211	15,508
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	11,102	10,973	10,570	10,874	11,211	11,868	11,973	12,199
Federal	3,285	3,275	3,161	3,090	3,078	3,272	3,350	3,284
DOD	131	116	111	114	99	118	151	154
DOE	117	148	145	148	145	176	217	189
HHS	64	26	26	30	36	34	27	45
NIH	55	25	25	22	24	24	22	32
Other HHS	9	1	1	8	12	10	5	13
NASA	417	429	417	433	444	458	487	471
NSF	1,537	1,496	1,445	1,445	1,459	1,571	1,688	1,631
USDA	70	79	67	71	50	44	45	38
Other	949	981	950	849	845	871	735	756
Nonfederal	5,846	5,696	5,461	5,810	5,965	6,166	6,147	6,233
Institutional	4,787	4,811	4,603	4,898	5,039	5,217	5,245	5,370
Domestic	980	788	768	769	775	769	758	712
Foreign	79	97	90	143	151	180	144	151
Self-support	1,971	2,002	1,948	1,974	2,168	2,430	2,476	2,682
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences^a	ne	ne	1,489	1,754	1,903	2,118	2,348	2,169
Federal	ne	ne	91	99	111	123	152	134
DOD	ne	ne	3	6	7	3	1	2
DOE	ne	ne	0	0	0	0	0	0
HHS	ne	ne	47	38	49	56	57	52
NIH	ne	ne	31	28	40	39	35	35
Other HHS	ne	ne	16	10	9	17	22	17
NASA	ne	ne	0	0	0	0	0	0
NSF	ne	ne	9	9	13	11	18	15
USDA	ne	ne	4	24	11	19	22	21
Other	ne	ne	28	22	31	34	54	44
Nonfederal	ne	ne	821	1,053	1,033	1,187	1,281	1,249
Institutional	ne	ne	743	951	928	1,097	1,172	1,124
Domestic	ne	ne	78	100	103	83	99	120
Foreign	ne	ne	0	2	2	7	10	5
Self-support	ne	ne	577	602	759	808	915	786
Mathematical sciences	14,995	15,311	15,013	15,636	16,328	16,917	17,587	18,192
Federal	1,738	1,691	1,654	1,594	1,869	1,854	1,917	1,856
DOD	175	173	162	169	148	164	152	140
DOE	64	54	53	49	51	61	64	67
HHS	178	189	192	171	205	217	210	224
NIH	152	159	163	155	183	198	197	204
Other HHS	26	30	29	16	22	19	13	20
NASA	18	16	12	13	20	18	18	17
NSF	1,006	987	963	977	1,139	1,097	1,191	1,155
USDA	19	19	19	15	16	36	39	38
Other	278	253	253	200	290	261	243	215
Nonfederal	10,369	10,578	10,500	11,026	10,981	11,238	11,490	12,010
Institutional	9,910	10,063	9,997	10,606	10,507	10,746	11,054	11,502
Domestic	390	460	455	324	349	338	302	347
Foreign	69	55	48	96	125	154	134	161
Self-support	2,888	3,042	2,859	3,016	3,478	3,825	4,180	4,326
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies^a	ne	ne	2,076	2,818	3,420	4,482	3,790	3,807
Federal	ne	ne	346	304	351	601	661	745
DOD	ne	ne	24	23	22	68	75	64
DOE	ne	ne	5	8	6	21	37	32
HHS	ne	ne	56	55	75	120	158	240
NIH	ne	ne	49	52	71	91	114	197
Other HHS	ne	ne	7	3	4	29	44	43
NASA	ne	ne	5	4	3	12	16	16
NSF	ne	ne	134	113	134	195	221	227
USDA	ne	ne	13	7	15	21	24	15
Other	ne	ne	109	94	96	164	130	151
Nonfederal	ne	ne	887	1,464	1,689	2,124	1,702	1,797
Institutional	ne	ne	807	1,342	1,555	1,916	1,542	1,604
Domestic	ne	ne	71	92	93	170	139	158
Foreign	ne	ne	9	30	41	38	21	35
Self-support	ne	ne	843	1,050	1,380	1,757	1,427	1,265
Neuroscience^a	na	na	1,529	1,908	2,261	2,682	3,909	4,333
Federal	na	na	844	1,045	1,200	1,340	1,917	2,117
DOD	na	na	9	9	33	44	52	69
DOE	na	na	0	1	1	1	1	1
HHS	na	na	785	957	1,072	1,179	1,629	1,772
NIH	na	na	780	948	1,046	1,155	1,587	1,747
Other HHS	na	na	5	9	26	24	42	25
NASA	na	na	0	1	0	0	0	0
NSF	na	na	22	53	75	93	175	221
USDA	na	na	0	0	1	1	6	6
Other	na	na	28	24	18	22	54	48
Nonfederal	na	na	617	767	977	1,192	1,772	1,983
Institutional	na	na	529	656	838	1,039	1,547	1,680
Domestic	na	na	82	102	127	144	205	281
Foreign	na	na	6	9	12	9	20	22
Self-support	na	na	68	96	84	150	220	233
Physical sciences	32,368	32,548	32,327	32,747	33,671	34,280	35,056	35,282
Federal	11,189	11,222	11,147	10,660	11,045	11,183	11,244	10,670
DOD	906	1,002	996	865	904	935	900	829
DOE	1,834	1,795	1,791	1,866	1,894	2,011	2,072	1,999
HHS	2,518	2,560	2,531	2,394	2,362	2,264	2,193	2,034
NIH	2,396	2,403	2,374	2,253	2,210	2,156	2,062	1,930
Other HHS	122	157	157	141	152	108	131	104
NASA	571	583	582	607	573	630	587	523
NSF	4,083	3,901	3,873	3,956	4,176	4,307	4,404	4,350
USDA	24	34	33	67	32	28	21	24
Other	1,253	1,347	1,341	905	1,104	1,008	1,067	911
Nonfederal	19,419	19,476	19,401	20,157	20,269	20,496	21,130	22,057
Institutional	17,241	17,288	17,227	18,186	18,236	18,554	19,214	20,009
Domestic	2,067	1,999	1,985	1,736	1,771	1,680	1,582	1,773
Foreign	111	189	189	235	262	262	334	275
Self-support	1,760	1,850	1,779	1,930	2,357	2,601	2,682	2,555
Psychology^b	32,944	34,801	34,286	35,866	34,585	33,566	33,496	32,830
Federal	3,354	3,305	3,201	2,897	2,966	3,112	2,983	2,820
DOD	145	130	115	125	138	168	200	180
DOE	32	30	30	6	0	1	1	3
HHS	1,732	1,690	1,641	1,594	1,584	1,592	1,468	1,356
NIH	1,599	1,545	1,501	1,390	1,378	1,427	1,336	1,203
Other HHS	133	145	140	204	206	165	132	153
NASA	8	2	3	6	6	5	7	3
NSF	415	419	380	361	411	489	531	605
USDA	11	6	6	3	6	5	7	4
Other	1,011	1,028	1,026	802	821	852	769	669
Nonfederal	14,292	15,155	14,914	14,960	14,385	13,998	13,527	13,792
Institutional	12,787	13,643	13,464	13,745	13,215	12,855	12,552	12,662
Domestic	1,453	1,455	1,399	1,108	1,096	1,034	898	1,026
Foreign	52	57	51	107	74	109	77	104
Self-support	15,298	16,341	16,171	18,009	17,234	16,456	16,986	16,218
Social sciences	61,843	63,564	62,406	64,107	67,116	67,836	68,642	67,009
Federal	3,517	3,226	3,193	3,131	3,338	3,475	3,577	3,219
DOD	196	124	124	156	182	183	245	229
DOE	42	50	50	42	26	44	48	36
HHS	375	388	377	381	407	412	421	335
NIH	317	320	309	299	318	309	296	242
Other HHS	58	68	68	82	89	103	125	93
NASA	70	64	63	68	80	74	97	79
NSF	896	896	882	853	943	904	998	983
USDA	335	315	315	335	309	357	295	271
Other	1,603	1,389	1,382	1,296	1,391	1,501	1,473	1,286
Nonfederal	33,006	34,005	33,476	34,911	34,817	34,723	36,001	36,238
Institutional	30,436	31,417	30,936	32,596	32,658	32,744	33,701	33,741
Domestic	1,846	1,947	1,904	1,629	1,496	1,419	1,727	1,857
Foreign	724	641	636	686	663	560	573	640
Self-support	25,320	26,333	25,737	26,065	28,961	29,638	29,064	27,552
Engineering	85,134	89,834	90,911	95,077	101,495	106,434	105,081	106,952
Federal	21,251	20,907	21,074	20,701	22,825	25,155	25,107	24,142
DOD	5,331	5,269	5,312	4,764	5,218	5,432	5,358	5,179
DOE	1,934	1,757	1,764	1,836	2,064	2,694	2,831	2,592
HHS	2,481	2,619	2,626	2,782	2,951	3,330	3,184	2,958
NIH	2,346	2,464	2,471	2,649	2,763	3,101	2,958	2,754
Other HHS	135	155	155	133	188	229	226	204
NASA	1,046	999	1,007	1,016	1,120	999	1,000	912
NSF	6,907	6,628	6,724	6,838	7,625	8,368	8,517	8,645
USDA	332	304	300	299	283	335	284	263
Other	3,220	3,331	3,341	3,166	3,564	3,997	3,933	3,593
Nonfederal	39,962	41,469	41,866	44,318	44,830	44,841	44,441	45,408
Institutional	30,253	32,098	32,394	34,788	34,741	34,776	34,184	34,851
Domestic	8,873	8,327	8,408	8,067	8,610	8,501	8,490	8,600
Foreign	836	1,044	1,064	1,463	1,479	1,564	1,767	1,957
Self-support	23,921	27,458	27,971	30,058	33,840	36,438	35,533	37,402
Aerospace engineering	3,291	3,379	3,379	3,588	3,845	4,187	4,200	3,767
Federal	1,157	1,135	1,135	1,236	1,346	1,371	1,456	1,281
DOD	540	482	482	509	588	645	681	585
DOE	42	47	47	47	43	63	72	60
HHS	17	19	19	12	13	10	8	8
NIH	15	15	15	11	13	10	8	7
Other HHS	2	4	4	1	0	0	0	1
NASA	318	336	336	382	434	345	373	354
NSF	139	131	131	140	143	183	176	205
USDA	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Other	100	120	120	146	125	125	145	69
Nonfederal	1,345	1,519	1,519	1,483	1,486	1,565	1,458	1,440
Institutional	950	1,040	1,040	1,218	1,152	1,222	1,139	1,083
Domestic	347	382	382	190	253	254	230	252
Foreign	48	97	97	75	81	89	89	105
Self-support	789	725	725	869	1,013	1,251	1,286	1,046
Agricultural engineering	893	917	917	1,022	1,084	1,198	1,372	1,250
Federal	268	245	245	279	298	369	383	362
DOD	15	8	8	17	33	16	27	32
DOE	9	10	10	12	26	27	36	29
HHS	7	8	8	10	12	36	43	35
NIH	4	8	8	9	9	13	19	15
Other HHS	3	0	0	1	3	23	24	20
NASA	16	9	9	4	5	8	16	12
NSF	21	30	30	33	39	56	68	65
USDA	149	113	113	119	116	140	110	106
Other	51	67	67	84	67	86	83	83
Nonfederal	506	577	577	621	614	572	693	593
Institutional	400	451	451	492	466	454	538	483
Domestic	97	112	112	96	129	93	108	97
Foreign	9	14	14	33	19	25	47	13
Self-support	119	95	95	122	172	257	296	295
Architecture^a	na	na	3,981	5,092	5,988	5,959	2,754	2,037
Federal	na	na	38	41	104	150	74	41
DOD	na	na	9	5	4	7	6	3
DOE	na	na	2	5	4	18	11	9
HHS	na	na	0	3	3	4	6	4
NIH	na	na	0	2	2	4	6	2
Other HHS	na	na	0	1	1	0	0	2
NASA	na	na	0	0	0	0	3	0
NSF	na	na	6	7	12	18	14	9
USDA	na	na	1	3	1	1	0	0
Other	na	na	20	18	80	102	34	16
Nonfederal	na	na	1,718	2,118	2,258	2,329	1,271	1,154
Institutional	na	na	1,545	1,955	1,957	2,107	1,124	994
Domestic	na	na	150	134	265	181	121	139
Foreign	na	na	23	29	36	41	26	21
Self-support	na	na	2,225	2,933	3,626	3,480	1,409	842
Biomedical engineering	5,641	5,885	5,908	6,260	6,840	7,375	7,847	7,931
Federal	1,807	2,089	2,100	2,230	2,447	2,709	2,731	2,778
DOD	99	93	93	122	157	152	180	175
DOE	25	26	26	42	50	49	42	45
HHS	1,245	1,412	1,423	1,542	1,618	1,803	1,770	1,702
NIH	1,234	1,389	1,400	1,500	1,589	1,767	1,732	1,668
Other HHS	11	23	23	42	29	36	38	34
NASA	10	15	15	14	15	24	12	16
NSF	280	306	306	352	417	508	584	694
USDA	5	6	6	5	6	16	2	5
Other	143	231	231	153	184	157	141	141
Nonfederal	2,464	2,460	2,472	2,808	2,958	3,047	3,258	3,303
Institutional	1,828	1,933	1,945	2,175	2,270	2,354	2,531	2,569
Domestic	621	509	509	572	620	615	633	620
Foreign	15	18	18	61	68	78	94	114
Self-support	1,370	1,336	1,336	1,222	1,435	1,619	1,858	1,850
Chemical engineering	6,185	6,249	6,433	6,722	7,058	7,472	7,594	8,014
Federal	2,104	1,985	2,039	2,044	2,121	2,439	2,400	2,338
DOD	179	164	173	162	187	215	223	241
DOE	371	352	353	374	373	440	487	428
HHS	328	282	294	302	304	366	338	311
NIH	298	248	260	267	263	343	291	280
Other HHS	30	34	34	35	41	23	47	31
NASA	67	52	52	30	31	35	31	34
NSF	816	814	848	860	913	1,089	1,039	1,037
USDA	61	62	62	60	54	48	42	41
Other	282	259	257	256	259	246	240	246
Nonfederal	3,324	3,471	3,607	3,766	3,945	3,777	3,787	4,080
Institutional	2,336	2,501	2,586	2,759	2,907	2,735	2,702	2,906
Domestic	927	811	859	861	885	909	896	999
Foreign	61	159	162	146	153	133	189	175
Self-support	757	793	787	912	992	1,256	1,407	1,596
Civil engineering^a	12,836	14,352	11,063	11,619	13,120	13,719	13,898	14,117
Federal	1,870	1,888	1,869	1,726	1,978	2,216	2,301	2,234
DOD	143	205	200	189	193	179	183	171
DOE	64	73	71	73	108	146	136	148
HHS	56	47	47	38	53	48	36	49
NIH	30	39	39	33	34	35	31	41
Other HHS	26	8	8	5	19	13	5	8
NASA	57	59	65	75	98	107	81	80
NSF	658	653	649	545	637	758	843	821
USDA	40	52	47	45	44	55	54	38
Other	852	799	790	761	845	923	968	927
Nonfederal	6,518	7,153	5,710	6,269	6,482	6,556	6,478	6,508
Institutional	5,345	6,008	4,707	5,257	5,458	5,475	5,400	5,511
Domestic	1,079	1,024	897	837	863	892	855	776
Foreign	94	121	106	175	161	189	223	221
Self-support	4,448	5,311	3,484	3,624	4,660	4,947	5,119	5,375
Electrical engineering	26,259	27,522	27,646	27,813	27,792	28,605	29,600	30,528
Federal	5,975	5,809	5,866	5,888	6,248	6,557	6,613	6,492
DOD	1,937	1,906	1,923	1,969	2,046	2,088	2,025	2,010
DOE	244	213	212	186	226	320	356	351
HHS	421	402	402	418	429	431	445	367
NIH	394	378	379	394	397	396	414	345
Other HHS	27	24	23	24	32	35	31	22
NASA	215	215	215	203	204	178	183	150
NSF	2,481	2,347	2,389	2,492	2,707	2,810	2,829	2,845
USDA	21	22	20	14	11	17	9	19
Other	656	704	705	606	625	713	766	750
Nonfederal	11,119	11,365	11,412	11,395	11,074	10,579	10,972	11,158
Institutional	8,485	8,826	8,841	8,887	8,591	8,104	8,425	8,640
Domestic	2,434	2,367	2,395	2,234	2,223	2,219	2,205	2,126
Foreign	200	172	176	274	260	256	342	392
Self-support	9,165	10,348	10,368	10,530	10,470	11,469	12,015	12,878
Engineering science	1,639	1,437	1,402	1,444	1,450	1,478	1,545	1,673
Federal	581	434	424	453	471	460	520	495
DOD	126	96	96	95	95	81	112	128
DOE	100	77	77	84	109	98	105	91
HHS	58	48	48	51	33	44	36	40
NIH	56	44	44	51	30	44	35	39
Other HHS	2	4	4	0	3	0	1	1
NASA	24	13	13	15	19	19	25	26
NSF	230	166	155	167	178	164	196	150
USDA	1	3	3	5	2	2	5	4
Other	42	31	32	36	35	52	41	56
Nonfederal	792	718	694	651	673	697	683	758
Institutional	617	615	590	542	548	541	556	552
Domestic	158	95	96	85	105	134	109	190
Foreign	17	8	8	24	20	22	18	16
Self-support	266	285	284	340	306	321	342	420
Industrial engineering	6,171	6,727	7,109	7,852	7,878	7,829	7,737	7,744
Federal	887	769	820	871	996	1,166	1,097	1,065
DOD	316	249	268	250	326	377	365	335
DOE	46	32	34	73	55	81	96	80
HHS	65	81	81	78	103	123	114	99
NIH	54	53	52	68	80	97	96	80
Other HHS	11	28	29	10	23	26	18	19
NASA	20	23	28	23	29	28	21	15
NSF	278	249	275	289	309	320	303	350
USDA	9	8	8	7	11	6	5	2
Other	153	127	126	151	163	231	193	184
Nonfederal	2,791	2,727	2,840	3,239	2,982	2,856	2,964	2,775
Institutional	2,255	2,221	2,268	2,567	2,335	2,210	2,175	2,134
Domestic	465	407	434	561	518	506	621	491
Foreign	71	99	138	111	129	140	168	150
Self-support	2,493	3,231	3,449	3,742	3,900	3,807	3,676	3,904
Mechanical engineering	12,408	12,913	12,903	13,456	15,215	16,257	15,758	16,701
Federal	3,228	3,179	3,175	3,167	3,619	4,112	3,894	3,751
DOD	777	849	847	852	965	979	887	886
DOE	391	331	331	371	386	585	571	520
HHS	187	190	190	193	221	262	215	191
NIH	171	168	168	183	199	232	181	163
Other HHS	16	22	22	10	22	30	34	28
NASA	217	189	189	193	213	212	193	167
NSF	1,091	1,076	1,074	1,068	1,255	1,365	1,380	1,408
USDA	11	17	17	15	16	22	14	14
Other	554	527	527	475	563	687	634	565
Nonfederal	6,331	6,466	6,458	6,694	7,245	7,497	7,377	7,690
Institutional	4,816	4,995	4,999	5,215	5,539	5,772	5,772	5,844
Domestic	1,361	1,314	1,303	1,197	1,435	1,403	1,317	1,442
Foreign	154	157	156	282	271	322	288	404
Self-support	2,849	3,268	3,270	3,595	4,351	4,648	4,487	5,260
Metallurgical and materials engineering	4,606	4,647	4,593	4,784	5,166	5,519	5,839	6,088
Federal	1,628	1,601	1,618	1,690	2,020	2,111	2,079	2,031
DOD	369	401	404	388	398	430	405	408
DOE	318	254	261	287	346	433	454	446
HHS	58	64	58	75	85	105	103	75
NIH	57	62	56	75	82	88	86	62
Other HHS	1	2	2	0	3	17	17	13
NASA	52	30	30	33	32	20	27	32
NSF	661	606	615	645	768	809	775	813
USDA	6	5	5	11	16	12	33	19
Other	164	241	245	251	375	302	282	238
Nonfederal	2,396	2,468	2,389	2,456	2,268	2,367	2,586	2,681
Institutional	1,581	1,675	1,621	1,695	1,646	1,688	1,878	1,933
Domestic	755	708	685	633	497	584	612	626
Foreign	60	85	83	128	125	95	96	122
Self-support	582	578	586	638	878	1,041	1,174	1,376
Mining engineering	177	199	132	201	205	353	412	240
Federal	28	37	26	23	31	60	84	64
DOD	1	3	0	0	0	0	5	7
DOE	14	10	10	12	6	16	25	16
HHS	1	5	7	4	14	23	25	29
NIH	1	3	5	3	10	14	14	14
Other HHS	0	2	2	1	4	9	11	15
NASA	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
NSF	2	5	0	1	4	5	9	4
USDA	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other	9	14	9	6	7	15	20	8
Nonfederal	99	106	87	138	132	188	205	136
Institutional	87	83	67	70	60	164	172	112
Domestic	11	23	20	68	72	24	32	24
Foreign	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Self-support	50	56	19	40	42	105	123	40
Nuclear engineering	910	960	951	941	968	1,123	1,165	1,162
Federal	338	328	326	335	403	503	518	522
DOD	48	35	35	46	60	83	78	88
DOE	208	212	212	182	208	242	252	252
HHS	8	11	9	9	10	7	4	2
NIH	8	10	8	9	10	7	4	2
Other HHS	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
NASA	9	16	16	7	10	6	13	7
NSF	5	19	19	17	18	24	19	19
USDA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Other	60	35	35	74	97	141	152	152
Nonfederal	439	489	483	472	432	471	496	498
Institutional	337	376	370	345	268	320	326	312
Domestic	89	101	101	100	153	144	154	164
Foreign	13	12	12	27	11	7	16	22
Self-support	133	143	142	134	133	149	151	142
Petroleum engineering	642	786	786	822	988	1,058	1,057	1,287
Federal	64	100	100	28	37	68	81	61
DOD	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
DOE	51	73	73	15	28	61	57	48
HHS	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
NIH	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other HHS	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
NASA	0	7	7	0	0	0	0	0
NSF	5	9	9	3	2	2	10	4
USDA	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0
Other	6	10	10	9	6	4	14	9
Nonfederal	451	522	522	607	735	724	738	886
Institutional	203	247	247	258	312	304	281	417
Domestic	192	215	215	282	320	294	337	333
Foreign	56	60	60	67	103	126	120	136
Self-support	127	164	164	187	216	266	238	340
Engineering nec	3,476	3,861	3,708	3,461	3,898	4,302	4,303	4,413
Federal	1,316	1,308	1,293	690	706	864	876	627
DOD	780	778	774	160	166	180	181	110
DOE	51	47	45	73	96	115	131	69
HHS	30	49	39	47	53	68	41	46
NIH	24	47	37	44	45	51	41	36
Other HHS	6	2	2	3	8	17	0	10
NASA	41	35	32	37	30	16	22	19
NSF	240	217	218	219	223	257	272	221
USDA	26	16	18	14	5	15	9	13
Other	148	166	167	140	133	213	220	149
Nonfederal	1,387	1,428	1,378	1,601	1,546	1,616	1,475	1,748
Institutional	1,013	1,127	1,117	1,353	1,232	1,326	1,165	1,361
Domestic	337	259	250	217	272	249	260	321
Foreign	37	42	11	31	42	41	50	66
Self-support	773	1,125	1,037	1,170	1,646	1,822	1,952	2,038
Health^{a, b}	61,756	61,292	59,288	59,943	52,287	46,868	41,628	40,614
Federal	9,209	8,476	7,643	6,520	5,516	5,718	4,766	3,929
DOD	361	334	323	316	238	274	201	158
DOE	27	36	34	24	14	24	20	18
HHS	6,697	6,231	5,443	4,407	3,956	4,171	3,154	2,718
NIH	4,257	4,283	3,493	3,084	2,933	3,172	2,326	2,049
Other HHS	2,440	1,948	1,950	1,323	1,023	999	828	669
NASA	14	8	7	8	3	93	11	10
NSF	283	222	198	206	169	193	196	124
USDA	98	75	89	68	81	100	94	90
Other	1,729	1,570	1,549	1,491	1,055	863	1,090	811
Nonfederal	16,829	18,225	17,558	16,491	15,217	14,136	13,095	13,051
Institutional	13,787	15,325	14,758	14,214	12,778	12,038	11,250	11,229
Domestic	2,861	2,653	2,558	2,029	2,147	1,755	1,398	1,340
Foreign	181	247	242	248	292	343	447	482
Self-support	35,718	34,591	34,087	36,932	31,554	27,014	23,767	23,634

na = not applicable; data were not collected at this level of detail. ne = not eligible; data were not collected for this field prior to 2007.

DOD = Department of Defense; DOE = Department of Energy; HHS = Department of Health and Human Services; NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration; nec = not elsewhere classified; NIH = National Institutes of Health; NSF = National Science Foundation; USDA = U.S. Department of Agriculture.

^a In 2007, eligible fields were reclassified, newly eligible fields were added, and the survey was redesigned to improve coverage and coding of eligible units. “2007new” presents data as collected in 2007; “2007old” shows data as they would have been collected in prior years. The science fields Communication and Family and consumer sciences and human sciences were newly eligible in 2007; data for these two fields begin in 2007new. The science field Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies was also added to the code list in 2007; some data reported in this field were reported under other fields before 2007 and are included in those fields in 2007old. Neuroscience is reported as a separate field of science in 2007new; data were reported under health field Neurology in 2007old and previous years. Architecture is reported as a separate field of engineering in 2007new; data were reported under Civil engineering in 2007old and previous years. See appendix A in http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10307/ for more detail.

^b Beginning with 2008, more rigorous follow-up was done with institutions regarding the exclusion of practitioner-oriented graduate degree programs in Psychology and in Other health (a subfield of health). This change may affect interpretation of trends in these fields.

SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF-NIH Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering.

Data from survey cycle Fall 2012, as of December 2013.