nsf.gov - Appendix Table 4 - NCSES Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering: 2013

Field	2007^a	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
All surveyed fields	11,210	11,773	11,865	12,276	12,419	12,567	12,607
Science and engineering	8,516	9,008	9,191	9,482	9,685	9,857	9,905
Science	6,840	7,272	7,435	7,661	7,862	7,999	8,049
Agricultural sciences	393	438	453	445	456	462	465
Biological sciences	2,092	2,175	2,227	2,279	2,306	2,352	2,353
Anatomy	65	60	59	58	49	51	47
Biochemistry	178	182	183	185	181	181	183
Biology	260	273	274	269	269	270	270
Biometry and epidemiology	117	126	136	149	169	187	190
Biophysics	35	35	36	38	36	37	35
Botany	67	67	68	67	65	67	67
Cell biology	181	192	205	216	219	221	214
Ecology	47	44	41	42	41	43	36
Entomology and parasitology	39	42	40	40	38	39	39
Genetics	102	106	108	108	109	114	118
Microbiology, immunology, and virology	225	229	225	222	226	225	219
Nutrition	120	121	121	124	119	116	117
Pathology	106	113	116	117	111	111	112
Pharmacology	150	154	158	160	161	159	155
Physiology	139	160	163	160	165	163	169
Zoology	27	22	20	18	19	22	22
Biological sciences nec	234	249	274	306	329	346	360
Communication	119	142	156	167	182	186	193
Computer sciences	401	417	422	439	437	442	434
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	374	387	388	407	409	416	419
Atmospheric sciences	40	42	42	51	54	52	52
Geosciences	206	212	215	211	211	214	217
Oceanography	57	59	59	65	62	66	71
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences nec	71	74	72	80	82	84	79
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	61	71	81	87	95	95	102
Mathematical sciences	418	447	450	450	452	451	444
Mathematics and applied mathematics	321	338	339	335	341	340	331
Statistics	97	109	111	115	111	111	113
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	117	191	226	302	313	340	348
Neuroscience	44	63	84	107	163	165	184
Physical sciences	608	627	640	664	669	679	673
Astronomy	43	46	46	49	51	53	53
Chemistry	289	294	297	295	299	301	299
Physics	252	260	262	270	273	278	277
Physical sciences nec	24	27	35	50	46	47	44
Psychology	657	685	662	657	659	663	642
Clinical psychology	143	145	151	149	146	143	138
Psychology, general	188	194	189	180	178	179	177
Psychology nec	326	346	322	328	335	341	327
Social sciences	1,556	1,629	1,646	1,657	1,721	1,748	1,792
Agricultural economics	54	53	55	52	48	47	48
Anthropology (cultural and social)	148	151	155	155	158	159	164
Economics (except agricultural)	198	215	218	215	214	220	221
Geography	105	111	113	114	115	115	118
History and philosophy of science	30	32	30	25	25	25	23
Linguistics	74	80	80	79	82	83	87
Political science	390	387	389	396	452	459	469
Sociology	183	194	200	203	204	203	203
Sociology and anthropology	20	17	16	12	10	10	9
Social sciences nec	354	389	390	406	413	427	450
Engineering	1,676	1,736	1,756	1,821	1,823	1,858	1,856
Aerospace engineering	58	56	58	62	60	61	64
Agricultural engineering	38	37	36	36	43	41	42
Architecture	58	79	82	83	58	55	55
Biomedical engineering	117	128	137	143	139	141	146
Chemical engineering	149	150	148	148	146	148	147
Civil engineering	243	247	251	257	248	253	254
Electrical engineering	270	272	265	266	280	285	283
Engineering science	37	40	43	47	56	61	59
Industrial engineering	170	168	157	161	163	163	163
Mechanical engineering	196	198	203	210	206	212	211
Metallurgical and materials engineering	119	125	129	129	141	144	146
Mining engineering	18	18	18	19	19	18	19
Nuclear engineering	24	25	25	26	27	28	28
Petroleum engineering	19	18	17	18	18	19	19
Engineering nec	160	175	187	216	219	229	220
Health	2,694	2,765	2,674	2,794	2,734	2,710	2,702
Clinical medicine	1,693	1,767	1,757	1,888	1,888	1,859	1,856
Anesthesiology	72	68	65	64	60	56	54
Cardiology	46	54	52	57	63	61	63
Endocrinology	50	53	51	53	50	49	50
Gastroenterology	45	45	44	50	48	46	48
Hematology	43	42	41	41	41	40	38
Neurology	127	122	117	112	82	75	73
Obstetrics and gynecology	67	68	69	72	71	66	67
Oncology and cancer research	91	94	101	110	114	111	103
Ophthalmology	56	55	58	63	62	64	63
Otorhinolaryngology	46	44	44	45	47	45	43
Pediatrics	86	84	85	100	106	103	99
Preventive medicine and community health	219	239	244	276	301	313	324
Psychiatry	81	81	75	83	80	80	79
Pulmonary disease	42	45	46	43	44	41	43
Radiology	97	100	106	110	107	106	105
Surgery	173	171	168	172	172	164	162
Clinical medicine nec	352	402	391	437	440	439	442
Other health	1,001	998	917	906	846	851	846
Dental sciences	93	92	98	100	103	98	104
Nursing	178	171	149	131	131	131	122
Pharmaceutical sciences	95	103	105	107	112	109	114
Speech pathology and audiology	170	166	154	151	153	154	153
Veterinary sciences	86	84	86	96	87	87	94
Other health nec	379	382	325	321	260	272	259

nec = not elsewhere classified.

^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. 2007 data presented in this table are the data collected in 2007, which were labeled as "2007new" in the past publications. See appendix A in http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10307/ for more detail on the changes made in 2007.

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 2013, as of 8 August 2014.