Data
Boston U.
| All races | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 1,703 | 1,231 | 1,268 | 1,299 | 1,257 | 1,277 | 2,095 | 2,221 | 1,342 | 1,165 | ||||||||||
| Hispanic or Latino | 222 | 150 | 155 | 135 | 100 | 102 | 185 | 195 | 113 | 93 | ||||||||||
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 1,304 | 974 | 990 | 1,013 | 999 | 977 | 1,641 | 1,735 | 1,090 | 950 | ||||||||||
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Asian | 327 | 190 | 205 | 199 | 202 | 192 | 257 | 263 | 196 | 156 | ||||||||||
| Black or African American | 139 | 102 | 102 | 108 | 113 | 88 | 124 | 133 | 117 | 86 | ||||||||||
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| White | 773 | 642 | 644 | 673 | 650 | 665 | 1,196 | 1,273 | 741 | 681 | ||||||||||
| More than one race | 63 | 40 | 38 | 32 | 34 | 28 | 56 | 58 | 32 | 23 | ||||||||||
| Unknown ethnicity and race | 177 | 107 | 123 | 151 | 158 | 198 | 269 | 291 | 139 | 122 | ||||||||||
| Temporary visa holders | 401 | 479 | 425 | 254 | 318 | 416 | 902 | 856 | 266 | 212 | ||||||||||
| Science and engineering | 1,695 | 1,312 | 1,378 | 1,287 | 1,347 | 1,467 | 2,742 | 2,809 | 1,298 | 1,119 | ||||||||||
| Science | 1,537 | 1,139 | 1,183 | 1,150 | 1,148 | 1,290 | 2,203 | 2,320 | 1,131 | 996 | ||||||||||
| Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 323 | 345 | 338 | 315 | 305 | 264 | 378 | 335 | 143 | 172 | ||||||||||
| Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 627 | 483 | 524 | 507 | 535 | 706 | 921 | 976 | 865 | 714 | ||||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 19 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 24 | 57 | 42 | 41 | 29 | 58 | 89 | 71 | 10 | 8 | ||||||||||
| Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 247 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 17 | ||||||||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 179 | 184 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Psychology | 25 | 25 | 32 | 26 | 32 | 21 | 84 | 93 | 9 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences | 287 | 218 | 238 | 252 | 233 | 227 | 508 | 633 | 85 | 69 | ||||||||||
| Engineering | 158 | 173 | 195 | 137 | 199 | 177 | 539 | 489 | 167 | 123 | ||||||||||
| Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 19 | 23 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 9 | 141 | 138 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 54 | 66 | 73 | 41 | 70 | 69 | 185 | 174 | 92 | 67 | ||||||||||
| Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 17 | 17 | 29 | 14 | 22 | 16 | 55 | 43 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mechanical engineering | 48 | 45 | 48 | 35 | 47 | 41 | 100 | 78 | 42 | 27 | ||||||||||
| Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 11 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 21 | 43 | 44 | 12 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Other engineering | 9 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 30 | 21 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 13 | ||||||||||
| Health | 409 | 398 | 315 | 266 | 228 | 226 | 255 | 268 | 310 | 258 | ||||||||||
| Clinical medicine | 309 | 339 | 285 | 255 | 211 | 214 | 236 | 232 | 310 | 258 | ||||||||||
| Other health | 100 | 59 | 30 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 19 | 36 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
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).

