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Table 5-1. Graduate students, postdoctoral appointees, and doctorate-holding nonfaculty researchers in science, engineering, and health fields, by institutional control: 2017

Broad field Graduate students Postdoctoral appointees Doctorate-holding nonfaculty researchers
All graduate students Master's Doctoral
Total number Percent in public institutions Total number Percent in public institutions Total number Percent in public institutions Total number Percent in public institutions Total number Percent in public institutions
All broad fields 649,112 69.6 378,587 67.9 270,525 72.1 64,733 54.1 28,180 63.5
Science 415,568 67.9 229,169 65.5 186,399 70.8 38,241 56.0 17,268 63.2
Agricultural sciences 9,347 97.0 5,603 97.9 3,744 95.5 1,024 90.9 496 94.2
Biological and biomedical sciences 85,217 64.2 33,926 63.3 51,291 64.9 21,781 48.2 8,203 56.8
Computer and information sciences 89,909 66.5 75,618 65.1 14,291 73.7 854 54.2 476 65.8
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences 12,545 84.3 6,006 90.0 6,539 79.2 2,089 74.4 1,794 82.8
Mathematics and statistics 29,669 69.7 16,568 64.2 13,101 76.6 991 64.2 240 64.2
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies 9,854 71.5 6,923 71.7 2,931 70.9 1,131 72.7 806 67.4
Natural resources and conservation 10,879 85.2 7,311 83.0 3,568 89.8 731 91.4 364 86.3
Physical sciences 41,829 73.3 6,368 78.0 35,461 72.5 7,211 61.2 2,871 59.7
Psychology 50,033 59.0 29,638 51.8 20,395 69.4 1,082 62.1 494 65.6
Social sciences 76,286 66.5 41,208 64.4 35,078 69.0 1,347 56.6 1,524 61.5
Engineering 165,581 73.0 96,756 72.4 68,825 73.8 7,839 57.8 3,274 66.7
Health 67,963 72.3 52,662 70.2 15,301 79.8 18,653 48.6 7,638 62.6
Clinical medicinea 29,693 63.1 25,283 61.0 4,410 74.9 16,100 43.0 6,448 58.5
Other health 38,270 79.5 27,379 78.6 10,891 81.7 2,553 83.6 1,190 85.1
a Clinical medicine includes graduate students in public health and clinical medicine not elsewhere classified (nec). Clinical medicine includes postdoctoral appointees and nonfaculty researchers in anesthesiology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, oncology and cancer research, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, pediatrics, psychiatry, public health, pulmonary disease, radiology, surgery, and clinical medicine nec.
NOTES: "Field" refers to the field of the unit that reports postdoctoral appointees and doctorate-holding nonfaculty researchers to the Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering. Percentages may not add to total because of rounding.
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, 2017.