Data
Northwestern U.
| All races | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 530 | 576 | 482 | 521 | 502 | 358 | 107 | 69 | 136 | 147 | ||||||||||
| Hispanic or Latino | 85 | 86 | 60 | 58 | 60 | 36 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 434 | 473 | 404 | 446 | 424 | 313 | 95 | 61 | 121 | 133 | ||||||||||
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Asian | 65 | 76 | 65 | 67 | 54 | 40 | 27 | 20 | 6 | 30 | ||||||||||
| Black or African American | 58 | 47 | 42 | 60 | 66 | 48 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| White | 292 | 320 | 272 | 295 | 287 | 217 | 60 | 36 | 108 | 98 | ||||||||||
| More than one race | 19 | 29 | 24 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Unknown ethnicity and race | 11 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Temporary visa holders | 75 | 78 | 90 | 26 | 87 | 71 | 106 | 108 | 109 | 88 | ||||||||||
| Science and engineering | 546 | 573 | 488 | 463 | 507 | 368 | 160 | 126 | 156 | 148 | ||||||||||
| Science | 453 | 488 | 385 | 384 | 369 | 254 | 21 | 25 | 63 | 55 | ||||||||||
| Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 3 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 41 | 42 | 33 | 11 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 42 | 48 | ||||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences | 6 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Psychology | 401 | 424 | 346 | 363 | 341 | 234 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Engineering | 93 | 85 | 103 | 79 | 138 | 114 | 139 | 101 | 93 | 93 | ||||||||||
| Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 13 | ||||||||||
| Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 28 | 25 | 19 | 5 | 27 | 14 | 37 | 52 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 60 | ||||||||||
| Mechanical engineering | 7 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 13 | 12 | 30 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Other engineering | 40 | 35 | 33 | 50 | 64 | 64 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Health | 59 | 81 | 84 | 84 | 82 | 61 | 53 | 51 | 89 | 87 | ||||||||||
| Clinical medicine | 46 | 66 | 74 | 67 | 64 | 45 | 42 | 40 | 61 | 66 | ||||||||||
| Other health | 13 | 15 | 10 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 28 | 21 | ||||||||||
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).

