Science and engineering | Health | ||||||
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Type of doctoral degree and primary mechanism of support |
All science, engineering, and health |
Total | Science | Engineering | Total | Clinical medicinea | Other health |
All degree types | 61,942 | 43,395 | 36,289 | 7,106 | 18,547 | 15,831 | 2,716 |
Fellowships | 6,483 | 4,162 | 3,667 | 495 | 2,321 | 2,002 | 319 |
Research grants | 39,635 | 30,128 | 24,587 | 5,541 | 9,507 | 7,893 | 1,614 |
Traineeships | 3,683 | 1,617 | 1,534 | 83 | 2,066 | 1,837 | 229 |
Other support | 12,141 | 7,488 | 6,501 | 987 | 4,653 | 4,099 | 554 |
Doctoral degreeb | 43,102 | 32,042 | 27,012 | 5,030 | 11,060 | 9,552 | 1,508 |
Fellowships | 3,894 | 2,799 | 2,513 | 286 | 1,095 | 1,000 | 95 |
Research grants | 28,977 | 22,587 | 18,617 | 3,970 | 6,390 | 5,421 | 969 |
Traineeships | 2,216 | 1,156 | 1,106 | 50 | 1,060 | 915 | 145 |
Other support | 8,015 | 5,500 | 4,776 | 724 | 2,515 | 2,216 | 299 |
Professional degreeb | 4,644 | 907 | 851 | 56 | 3,737 | 3,445 | 292 |
Fellowships | 830 | 71 | 70 | 1 | 759 | 726 | 33 |
Research grants | 1,532 | 519 | 479 | 40 | 1,013 | 887 | 126 |
Traineeships | 744 | 58 | 57 | 1 | 686 | 640 | 46 |
Other support | 1,538 | 259 | 245 | 14 | 1,279 | 1,192 | 87 |
Dual degreeb | 1,200 | 323 | 313 | 10 | 877 | 814 | 63 |
Fellowships | 130 | 38 | 37 | 1 | 92 | 85 | 7 |
Research grants | 601 | 179 | 171 | 8 | 422 | 383 | 39 |
Traineeships | 128 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 101 | 93 | 8 |
Other support | 341 | 79 | 78 | 1 | 262 | 253 | 9 |
Doctoral degree type unknown | 12,996 | 10,123 | 8,113 | 2,010 | 2,873 | 2,020 | 853 |
Fellowships | 1,629 | 1,254 | 1,047 | 207 | 375 | 191 | 184 |
Research grants | 8,525 | 6,843 | 5,320 | 1,523 | 1,682 | 1,202 | 480 |
Traineeships | 595 | 376 | 344 | 32 | 219 | 189 | 30 |
Other support | 2,247 | 1,650 | 1,402 | 248 | 597 | 438 | 159 |
a Includes postdoctoral appointees in anesthesiology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology and cancer research, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, pediatrics, preventive medicine and community health, psychiatry, pulmonary disease, radiology, surgery, and clinical medicine, not elsewhere classified. |
b Doctoral degree = PhD, ScD, DEng, etc.; professional degree = MD, DVM, DO, DDS, etc.; dual degree = both professional and doctoral degrees (MD-PhD, DVM-PhD, etc.). |
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. |