Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering
Fall 2013

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Table	Graduate enrollment in all institutions
	Graduates students in science, engineering, and health, by field
1	science, engineering, and health: 1975–2013
2	science: 1975–2013
3	engineering: 1975–2013
4	female: 1977–2013
	Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health, by field
5	total: 1975–2013
6	female: 1977–2013
7	U.S. citizen and permanent resident: 1980–2013
8	with temporary visas: 1980–2013
	Graduate students in all institutions: 2007–13
	by detailed field in science, engineering, and health
9	total
10	female
11	full-time
12	first-time, full-time
	by citizenship, ethnicity, and race
13	total
14	female
15	full-time
	Graduate students in doctorate-granting institutions: 2007–13
	by detailed field in science, engineering, and health
16	total
17	in public institutions
	full- and part-time enrollment
18	by citizenship, ethnicity, and race
	full-time enrollment
19	by field and primary source of support
20	by field and primary mechanism of support
	Graduate students in all institutions: 2013
	by citizenship, ethnicity, and race
21	by detailed field
22	female, by detailed field
23	in science, by state, and institution
24	in engineering, by state, and institution
	Institutional rankings: 2013
25	by total number of science and engineering graduate students, by field
	Black or African American full-time graduate students
26	in all institutions and in HBCUs, by field and sex: 2009–13
	Postdoctoral appointees in all institutions
	Postdoctoral appointees, by field: 1979–2013
27	science, engineering, and health
28	science
29	engineering
30	female, in science, engineering, and health
31	with temporary visas, in science, engineering, and health
	Postdoctoral appointees in science, engineering, and health: 2007–13
	by field
32	total
33	female
34	by citizenship, ethnicity, and race
35	in public institutions
36	in private institutions
37	by primary source of support
	Postdoctoral appointees in science, engineering, and health: 2013
	by field
38	by sex and citizenship
39	by primary source of support
40	by primary mechanism of support
41	by primary source of support and primary mechanism of support
42	by citizenship, ethnicity, and race
43	female, by citizenship, ethnicity, and race
	by state, institution, citizenship, ethnicity, and race
44	in science
45	in engineering
	Institutional rankings: 2013
46	by total number of postdoctoral appointees, by field
	Postdoctoral appointees' doctoral degree characteristics: 2013
47	degree type, by detailed field and citizenship
48	origin of doctoral degree, by detailed field
49	degree type, by primary mechanism of support and field
50	origin of doctoral degree, citizenship, ethnicity, and race, by field

April 2015

Data from survey cycle Fall 2013
(finalized August 2014)

National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, Fall 2013. http://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/gradpostdoc/.

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Table	Technical Tables
A-1	Changes in the organizational unit listing: 2006–13
A-2	Changes in the institution status: 2012–13
A-3	NSF data collection series: 1972–2013
	Science, engineering, and health organizational units
A-4	in doctorate-granting institutions, by detailed field: 2007–13
A-5	in master's-granting institutions, by detailed field: 2007–13
A-6	response rates: 1975–2013
	Imputation, by field and graduate enrollment or postdoctoral status: 2011–13
A-7	for nonresponse in doctorate-granting institutions
A-8	for nonresponse in master's-granting institutions
	Imputation for graduate students and postdoctoral appointees in surveyed fields: 2013
A-9	graduate students, by citizenship, ethnicity, race, enrollment status, and sex
A-10	full-time graduate students, by mechanism of support, sex, and source of support
A-11	postdoctoral appointees, by citizenship, ethnicity, race, and sex
A-12	postdoctoral appointees, by mechanism of support, source of support, and sex
A-13	postdoctoral appointees, by type of doctoral degree, mechanism of support, and citizenship
A-14	postdoctoral appointees, by origin of doctoral degree
A-15	nonfaculty researchers, by type of doctoral degree and sex
	GSS and CIP Codes
A-16	Crosswalk between 2010 Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) codes and Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering (GSS) Codes

April 2015

Data from survey cycle Fall 2013
(finalized August 2014)

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Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering Fall 2013

Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering
Fall 2013