Data
Iowa State U.
| Field | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All surveyed fields | 580 | 461 | 471 | 438 | 418 | 448 | 474 | 478 | 445 | 624 | ||||||||||
| Science and engineering | 577 | 456 | 470 | 437 | 415 | 441 | 462 | 470 | 440 | 620 | ||||||||||
| Science | 331 | 288 | 311 | 302 | 284 | 279 | 250 | 268 | 252 | 351 | ||||||||||
| Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 46 | 34 | 45 | 27 | 25 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 44 | ||||||||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 99 | 88 | 102 | 101 | 116 | 105 | 96 | 100 | 107 | 121 | ||||||||||
| Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 31 | 21 | 23 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 19 | 27 | 25 | 39 | ||||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 14 | 10 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 13 | ||||||||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 26 | 14 | 17 | 21 | 27 | 25 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 26 | ||||||||||
| Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 7 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 15 | 24 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences | 83 | 90 | 76 | 99 | 76 | 66 | 69 | 75 | 64 | 75 | ||||||||||
| Psychology | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | ||||||||||
| Engineering | 246 | 168 | 159 | 135 | 131 | 162 | 212 | 202 | 188 | 269 | ||||||||||
| Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 24 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 22 | 22 | 14 | 14 | 15 | ||||||||||
| Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 31 | 24 | 19 | 24 | 17 | 13 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 23 | ||||||||||
| Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 27 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 46 | ||||||||||
| Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 55 | 39 | 44 | 46 | 46 | 57 | 75 | 70 | 58 | 84 | ||||||||||
| Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 10 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Mechanical engineering | 58 | 34 | 28 | 18 | 24 | 29 | 42 | 39 | 36 | 43 | ||||||||||
| Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 24 | 13 | 22 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 23 | 25 | ||||||||||
| Other engineering | 17 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 21 | 22 | 29 | ||||||||||
| Health | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Other health | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 4 | ||||||||||
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).
