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Table 6. Academic institutions with science and engineering research space shared with other fields or used for purposes other than research, by field: FY 2017

Field Institutions with research spacea Institutions with research space shared with other fields Institutions with research space also used for nonresearch purposes
Number Percent Number Percent
All research space 562 295 52 315 56
Agricultural sciences 199 56 28 84 42
Biological and biomedical sciences 547 199 36 247 45
Computer and information sciences 419 103 25 208 50
Engineering 377 133 35 192 51
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences 351 82 23 170 48
Health sciences 406 123 30 191 47
Mathematics and statistics 365 62 17 187 51
Natural resources and conservation 256 74 29 115 45
Physical sciences 475 141 30 240 51
Psychology 435 76 17 198 46
Social sciences 392 87 22 194 49
Other 145 65 45 62 43
a Includes only those institutions that reported on shared space.
NOTES: Institutions were asked to indicate whether any of the net assignable square feet of research space reported in individual field totals was shared with other fields or used for purposes other than research. Percentages are based on the number of institutions with research space in each field of science and engineering.
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities, FY 2017.