nsf.gov - Table 39 - NCSES Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering: 2013

		Federal									Nonfederal
Field	Total	Total	DOD	DOE	HHS- NIH	HHS- Other	NASA	NSF	USDA	Other	Total	Institutional	Domestic	Foreign	Self- support	Unknown
All surveyed fields	61,942	33,382	2,393	1,845	19,784	913	598	4,153	693	3,003	22,712	12,254	8,713	1,745	588	5,260
Science and engineering	43,395	24,143	2,070	1,820	11,923	601	573	4,082	654	2,420	15,079	7,896	5,948	1,235	334	3,839
Science	36,289	20,517	1,215	1,229	11,157	515	493	3,336	591	1,981	12,383	6,616	4,839	928	263	3,126
Agricultural sciences	1,319	607	19	32	40	8	11	110	267	120	620	354	255	11	12	80
Biological sciences	19,330	11,404	360	138	8,523	294	22	822	273	972	6,304	3,088	2,821	395	87	1,535
Anatomy	258	189	6	0	168	5	0	3	0	7	58	29	26	3	3	8
Biochemistry	2,097	1,284	32	33	916	53	3	78	10	159	646	328	286	32	8	159
Biology	2,141	1,165	31	23	730	11	7	263	26	74	855	482	289	84	7	114
Biometry and epidemiology	638	408	18	0	346	18	0	8	0	18	197	89	93	15	3	30
Biophysics	164	91	2	0	73	0	0	4	0	12	35	16	18	1	0	38
Botany	614	323	7	39	26	1	1	129	85	35	202	104	91	7	5	84
Cell biology	2,387	1,176	36	0	952	5	0	48	4	131	789	288	453	48	0	422
Ecology	107	59	0	1	10	0	2	41	2	3	36	22	14	0	0	12
Entomology and parasitology	258	165	1	0	45	5	0	24	78	12	87	47	37	3	3	3
Genetics	1,394	797	26	3	536	32	0	30	10	160	490	226	233	31	1	106
Microbiology, immunology, and virology	2,188	1,410	42	15	1,146	34	2	31	12	128	697	326	321	50	4	77
Nutrition	214	117	0	0	59	15	0	12	20	11	76	54	21	1	3	18
Pathology	1,505	780	25	0	724	7	1	3	3	17	615	319	247	49	19	91
Pharmacology	1,284	827	29	6	685	44	1	5	1	56	354	171	157	26	1	102
Physiology	1,412	869	28	1	772	18	0	9	1	40	451	236	194	21	7	85
Zoology	94	63	3	3	9	1	0	29	3	15	22	17	5	0	3	6
Biological sciences nec	2,575	1,681	74	14	1,326	45	5	105	18	94	694	334	336	24	20	180
Communication	76	26	3	0	9	1	0	12	0	1	43	27	9	7	0	7
Computer sciences	765	490	148	19	52	6	3	208	0	54	232	109	86	37	8	35
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	2,032	1,100	93	94	86	10	177	447	13	180	748	372	238	138	19	165
Atmospheric sciences	209	143	11	18	0	0	32	45	1	36	56	28	19	9	0	10
Geosciences	730	393	9	36	5	5	93	207	2	36	280	178	67	35	14	43
Oceanography	423	262	25	7	11	5	11	126	4	73	158	80	62	16	1	2
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences nec	670	302	48	33	70	0	41	69	6	35	254	86	90	78	4	110
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	90	31	2	0	10	5	0	0	4	10	38	14	23	1	9	12
Mathematical sciences	932	394	73	10	41	9	5	235	0	21	424	363	40	21	11	103
Mathematics and applied mathematics	787	317	56	10	19	9	5	203	0	15	380	338	30	12	10	80
Statistics	145	77	17	0	22	0	0	32	0	6	44	25	10	9	1	23
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	891	491	40	54	272	3	4	88	5	25	309	162	134	13	20	71
Neuroscience	1,696	977	36	0	759	64	1	27	1	89	546	194	302	50	4	169
Physical sciences	7,197	4,129	384	874	893	86	254	1,254	6	378	2,298	1,371	721	206	43	727
Astronomy	407	242	3	16	8	0	108	88	0	19	101	62	29	10	2	62
Chemistry	3,850	2,038	181	299	792	84	14	527	1	140	1,367	773	452	142	18	427
Physics	2,682	1,663	182	530	80	2	124	575	5	165	775	500	221	54	23	221
Physical sciences nec	258	186	18	29	13	0	8	64	0	54	55	36	19	0	0	17
Psychology	1,023	630	33	1	410	28	2	64	2	90	302	186	92	24	17	74
Clinical psychology	104	57	1	0	39	2	0	1	0	14	33	27	4	2	10	4
Psychology, general	568	349	12	0	232	7	0	45	0	53	161	97	54	10	6	52
Psychology nec	351	224	20	1	139	19	2	18	2	23	108	62	34	12	1	18
Social sciences	938	238	24	7	62	1	14	69	20	41	519	376	118	25	33	148
Agricultural economics	61	18	0	2	0	0	0	0	11	5	33	25	8	0	1	9
Anthropology (cultural and social)	118	21	1	1	1	0	0	16	0	2	83	70	11	2	7	7
Economics (except agricultural)	62	16	3	0	4	0	0	4	3	2	32	27	5	0	1	13
Geography	89	52	0	0	3	0	13	20	3	13	24	13	8	3	4	9
History and philosophy of science	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	2	2	3	3	4
Linguistics	33	12	2	0	2	0	0	7	0	1	14	10	2	2	0	7
Political science	239	47	10	3	16	0	0	8	0	10	128	86	35	7	2	62
Sociology	93	30	1	0	19	1	0	6	2	1	55	43	7	5	4	4
Sociology and anthropology	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0
Social sciences nec	226	42	7	1	17	0	1	8	1	7	140	97	40	3	11	33
Engineering	7,106	3,626	855	591	766	86	80	746	63	439	2,696	1,280	1,109	307	71	713
Aerospace engineering	202	108	57	11	3	0	8	14	1	14	76	38	30	8	3	15
Agricultural engineering	152	76	3	11	0	2	6	7	32	15	60	31	24	5	4	12
Architecture	17	7	1	1	0	0	0	4	0	1	9	6	2	1	0	1
Biomedical engineering	1,103	665	68	21	441	15	4	80	0	36	353	185	130	38	5	80
Chemical engineering	1,230	544	107	129	109	11	9	111	15	53	543	227	254	62	4	139
Civil engineering	587	243	32	37	14	3	12	79	4	62	256	155	81	20	7	81
Electrical engineering	1,180	621	240	62	64	15	16	149	5	70	364	171	146	47	18	177
Engineering science	240	157	44	28	11	8	9	36	0	21	82	38	27	17	1	0
Industrial engineering	133	39	15	4	5	1	1	8	0	5	60	41	11	8	7	27
Mechanical engineering	1,034	544	135	92	78	25	12	128	2	72	372	190	143	39	15	103
Metallurgical and materials engineering	809	413	119	97	24	5	2	103	3	60	339	132	169	38	5	52
Mining engineering	7	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	2	1	0	0	2
Nuclear engineering	105	49	2	30	0	0	0	4	0	13	44	13	24	7	0	12
Petroleum engineering	49	9	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	40	2	29	9	0	0
Engineering nec	258	149	32	59	17	1	1	23	1	15	95	49	38	8	2	12
Health	18,547	9,239	323	25	7,861	312	25	71	39	583	7,633	4,358	2,765	510	254	1,421
Clinical medicine	15,831	7,768	301	20	6,659	235	19	34	11	489	6,572	3,733	2,371	468	198	1,293
Anesthesiology	439	224	5	0	205	3	0	1	0	10	196	118	64	14	2	17
Cardiology	777	393	3	0	353	8	0	2	0	27	340	202	97	41	7	37
Endocrinology	441	254	5	0	232	2	0	0	0	15	180	61	85	34	1	6
Gastroenterology	317	147	2	0	137	2	0	0	0	6	141	81	47	13	13	16
Hematology	348	186	7	0	167	0	0	0	0	12	131	78	48	5	3	28
Neurology	941	388	23	0	324	3	1	1	0	36	430	193	202	35	8	115
Obstetrics and gynecology	301	114	10	1	97	1	0	0	0	5	131	79	40	12	3	53
Oncology and cancer research	1,859	808	55	0	721	11	7	1	0	13	775	366	356	53	18	258
Ophthalmology	528	235	11	0	210	1	0	0	0	13	253	133	105	15	6	34
Otorhinolaryngology	160	92	2	0	83	5	2	0	0	0	61	37	17	7	2	5
Pediatrics	1,584	643	14	0	548	42	2	2	7	28	805	589	192	24	30	106
Preventive medicine and community health	703	385	10	1	303	33	2	8	3	25	244	151	84	9	2	72
Psychiatry	1,008	614	12	2	451	7	1	2	0	139	274	154	100	20	20	100
Pulmonary disease	288	153	0	0	136	1	1	0	0	15	128	94	25	9	4	3
Radiology	921	432	21	14	382	1	1	1	0	12	408	248	128	32	21	60
Surgery	1,297	525	33	0	459	6	2	1	0	24	653	374	223	56	30	89
Clinical medicine nec	3,919	2,175	88	2	1,851	109	0	15	1	109	1,422	775	558	89	28	294
Other health	2,716	1,471	22	5	1,202	77	6	37	28	94	1,061	625	394	42	56	128
Dental sciences	303	213	6	0	175	8	1	1	0	22	59	39	19	1	8	23
Nursing	77	45	1	0	38	1	0	0	0	5	30	26	4	0	2	0
Pharmaceutical sciences	995	563	7	2	479	32	1	24	3	15	380	209	141	30	20	32
Speech pathology and audiology	49	34	0	0	25	2	0	2	0	5	11	9	2	0	4	0
Veterinary sciences	564	215	1	2	149	19	0	2	24	18	321	202	113	6	5	23
Other health nec	728	401	7	1	336	15	4	8	1	29	260	140	115	5	17	50

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.

NOTE: "Field" refers to the field of the unit that reports postdocs to the Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering.

SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF-NIH Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, 2013.

Data from survey cycle Fall 2013, as of 8 August 2014.