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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: 2018

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 668,307 68.1 391,211 65.8 277,096 71.4 64,783 53.2 29,284 65.0
Science 432,255 66.4 241,327 63.3 190,928 70.2 37,564 55.0 18,278 65.7
Agricultural sciences 9,538 95.5 5,658 95.5 3,880 95.4 1,072 93.1 565 93.8
Biological and biomedical sciences 87,933 64.2 35,306 62.7 52,627 65.2 21,533 47.9 8,250 58.7
Computer and information sciences 93,478 66.2 77,351 64.8 16,127 73.0 879 55.5 515 68.2
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences 12,333 84.5 5,629 91.3 6,704 78.9 1,726 70.2 2,106 84.9
Mathematics and statistics 31,461 69.1 18,073 63.4 13,388 76.7 982 68.4 266 68.0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies 10,338 69.6 7,414 70.4 2,924 67.8 980 66.8 832 72.0
Natural resources and conservation 11,407 84.6 7,691 83.8 3,716 86.3 764 86.1 580 91.7
Physical sciences 42,075 72.6 6,075 76.7 36,000 71.9 6,976 60.4 3,056 62.6
Psychology 55,707 53.1 35,404 45.6 20,303 66.2 1,145 54.4 507 70.0
Social sciences 77,985 64.5 42,726 61.1 35,259 68.5 1,507 53.9 1,601 57.0
Engineering 163,301 72.5 93,064 71.8 70,237 73.6 7,914 58.5 3,570 69.8
Health 72,751 68.7 56,820 66.6 15,931 76.2 19,305 47.6 7,436 61.0
Clinical medicinea 32,002 60.4 27,494 58.1 4,508 74.4 16,563 41.6 6,159 56.3
Other health 40,749 75.2 29,326 74.5 11,423 77.0 2,742 83.9 1,277 83.7
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 Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, 2018.