Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering
Fall 2012

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Table	Graduate enrollment in all institutions
	Graduates students in science, engineering, and health
	by field: 1975–2012
1	science, engineering, and health
2	science
3	engineering
4	female: 1977–2012
	Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health, by field
5	total: 1975–2012
6	female: 1977–2012
7	U.S. citizen and permanent resident: 1980–2012
8	with temporary visas: 1980–2012
	Graduate students in all institutions: 2006–12
	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: 2006–12
	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: 2012
	by citizenship, ethnicity, and race
21	by detailed field
22	female, by detailed field
23	in science, by region, state, and institution
24	in engineering, by region, state, and institution
	Institutional rankings: 2006–12
25	by 2012 graduate student total in science, engineering, and health
	Black or African American full-time graduate students
26	in all institutions and in HBCUs, by field and sex: 2008–12
	Postdoctoral appointees, by field: 1979–2012
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: 2006–12
	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: 2012
	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 region, state, institution, citizenship, ethnicity, and race
44	in science
45	in engineering
	Institutional rankings: 2012
46	by postdoctoral appointees total, by field
	Postdoctoral appointees' doctoral degree characteristics: 2012
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

July 2014

Data from survey cycle Fall 2012
(finalized December 2013)

National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, Fall 2012. http://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/gradpostdoc/.

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Table	Technical Tables
A-1	Changes in the organizational unit listing: 2006–12
A-2	Changes in the institution status: 2011–12

A-3	NSF data collection series: 1972–2012

	Science, engineering, and health organizational units
A-4	in doctorate-granting institutions, by detailed field: 2006–12
A-5	in master's-granting institutions, by detailed field: 2006–12
A-6	response rates: 1975–2012

	Imputation, by field and graduate enrollment or postdoctoral status: 2010–12
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: 2012
A-9	graduate students, by citizenship, ethnicity, race, enrollment status, and sex
A-10	full-time graduate students, by source and mechanism of support, and sex
A-11	postdoctoral appointees by citizenship, ethnicity, race, and sex
A-12	postdoctoral appointees, by source and mechanism 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

July 2014

Data from survey cycle Fall 2012
(finalized December 2013)

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Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering Fall 2012

Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering
Fall 2012