Data
Northwestern U.
| All races | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 2,546 | 2,427 | 2,427 | 2,390 | 2,288 | 2,197 | 1,572 | 1,719 | 1,567 | 1,677 | ||||||||||
| Hispanic or Latino | 341 | 330 | 314 | 313 | 272 | 237 | 148 | 169 | 150 | 158 | ||||||||||
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 2,128 | 2,014 | 2,024 | 1,985 | 1,921 | 1,859 | 1,332 | 1,463 | 1,334 | 1,422 | ||||||||||
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Asian | 447 | 411 | 409 | 354 | 324 | 304 | 229 | 254 | 76 | 204 | ||||||||||
| Black or African American | 171 | 178 | 171 | 163 | 166 | 165 | 110 | 110 | 109 | 114 | ||||||||||
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| White | 1,370 | 1,300 | 1,321 | 1,357 | 1,307 | 1,252 | 904 | 1,013 | 1,070 | 1,030 | ||||||||||
| More than one race | 136 | 123 | 118 | 104 | 116 | 130 | 84 | 82 | 76 | 70 | ||||||||||
| Unknown ethnicity and race | 77 | 83 | 89 | 92 | 95 | 101 | 92 | 87 | 83 | 97 | ||||||||||
| Temporary visa holders | 1,770 | 1,702 | 1,481 | 1,411 | 1,224 | 1,340 | 1,248 | 1,236 | 1,395 | 1,181 | ||||||||||
| Science and engineering | 4,171 | 3,976 | 3,797 | 3,687 | 3,342 | 3,370 | 2,718 | 2,827 | 2,858 | 2,759 | ||||||||||
| Science | 2,962 | 2,761 | 2,636 | 2,538 | 2,288 | 2,228 | 1,642 | 1,658 | 1,805 | 1,793 | ||||||||||
| Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 801 | 732 | 657 | 643 | 554 | 567 | 494 | 538 | 392 | 371 | ||||||||||
| Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 51 | ||||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 425 | 393 | 296 | 263 | 194 | 206 | 168 | 124 | 124 | 141 | ||||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 25 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 29 | 32 | 29 | 27 | 22 | ||||||||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 151 | 127 | 106 | 82 | 83 | 80 | 90 | 90 | 152 | 140 | ||||||||||
| Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 74 | 76 | 77 | 73 | 78 | 31 | 32 | 29 | 27 | 25 | ||||||||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences | 427 | 403 | 422 | 382 | 396 | 403 | 308 | 312 | 358 | 385 | ||||||||||
| Psychology | 578 | 561 | 600 | 609 | 560 | 517 | 115 | 118 | 122 | 124 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences | 481 | 445 | 455 | 462 | 398 | 395 | 403 | 418 | 416 | 417 | ||||||||||
| Engineering | 1,209 | 1,215 | 1,161 | 1,149 | 1,054 | 1,142 | 1,076 | 1,169 | 1,053 | 966 | ||||||||||
| Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 206 | 177 | 166 | 160 | 152 | 147 | 137 | 164 | 147 | 120 | ||||||||||
| Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 116 | 119 | 119 | 116 | 109 | 98 | 101 | 119 | 120 | 117 | ||||||||||
| Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 107 | 115 | 119 | 127 | 22 | 115 | 107 | 121 | 110 | 107 | ||||||||||
| Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 215 | 221 | 184 | 167 | 168 | 203 | 156 | 184 | 104 | 127 | ||||||||||
| Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 84 | 88 | 83 | 84 | 65 | 64 | 63 | 58 | 67 | 58 | ||||||||||
| Mechanical engineering | 146 | 145 | 139 | 140 | 229 | 173 | 161 | 163 | 160 | 136 | ||||||||||
| Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 209 | 220 | 227 | 247 | 209 | 236 | 232 | 234 | 248 | 237 | ||||||||||
| Other engineering | 126 | 130 | 124 | 108 | 100 | 106 | 119 | 126 | 97 | 64 | ||||||||||
| Health | 145 | 153 | 111 | 114 | 170 | 167 | 102 | 128 | 104 | 99 | ||||||||||
| Clinical medicine | 101 | 102 | 61 | 63 | 93 | 95 | 36 | 71 | 55 | 46 | ||||||||||
| Other health | 44 | 51 | 50 | 51 | 77 | 72 | 66 | 57 | 49 | 53 | ||||||||||
NOTES:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).

