Data

Northwestern U.
All races | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
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Male | 176 | 161 | 143 | 185 | 154 | 114 | 115 | 131 | 118 | 163 | ||||||||||
Female | 478 | 411 | 404 | 404 | 275 | 99 | 62 | 114 | 117 | 104 | ||||||||||
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 576 | 482 | 521 | 502 | 358 | 107 | 69 | 136 | 147 | 180 | ||||||||||
Hispanic or Latino | 86 | 60 | 58 | 60 | 36 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 4 | ||||||||||
Not Hispanic or Latino | 473 | 404 | 446 | 424 | 313 | 95 | 61 | 121 | 133 | 155 | ||||||||||
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Asian | 76 | 65 | 67 | 54 | 40 | 27 | 20 | 6 | 30 | 44 | ||||||||||
Black or African American | 47 | 42 | 60 | 66 | 48 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
White | 320 | 272 | 295 | 287 | 217 | 60 | 36 | 108 | 98 | 105 | ||||||||||
More than one race | 29 | 24 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Unknown ethnicity and race | 17 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 21 | ||||||||||
Temporary visa holders | 78 | 90 | 26 | 87 | 71 | 106 | 108 | 109 | 88 | 87 | ||||||||||
Science and engineering | 573 | 488 | 463 | 507 | 368 | 160 | 126 | 156 | 148 | 198 | ||||||||||
Science | 488 | 385 | 384 | 369 | 254 | 21 | 25 | 63 | 55 | 145 | ||||||||||
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||
Neurobiology and neuroscience | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 42 | 33 | 11 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 42 | 48 | 42 | ||||||||||
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 12 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 424 | 346 | 363 | 341 | 234 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 97 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 85 | 103 | 79 | 138 | 114 | 139 | 101 | 93 | 93 | 53 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 4 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 5 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 25 | 19 | 5 | 27 | 14 | 37 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 25 | ||||||||||
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 60 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 6 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 7 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 12 | 30 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 6 | ||||||||||
Other engineering | 35 | 33 | 50 | 64 | 64 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||||
Health | 81 | 84 | 84 | 82 | 61 | 53 | 51 | 89 | 87 | 69 | ||||||||||
Clinical medicine | 66 | 74 | 67 | 64 | 45 | 42 | 40 | 61 | 66 | 69 | ||||||||||
Other health | 15 | 10 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 28 | 21 | 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).