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Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health receiving primary support from federal sources, by field: 2024–15
Field 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
All surveyed fields   380   338   307   309   304   257   239   272   286   274
  Science and engineering   360   317   283   286   288   245   218   244   279   268
    Science   263   244   211   229   230   197   182   207   234   221
      Agricultural and veterinary sciences   15   10   9   10   21   12   11   16   65   49
      Biological and biomedical sciences   86   64   63   80   81   62   55   58   69   66
      Communication   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   1
      Computer and information sciences   38   41   25   14   13   11   12   12   10   13
      Family and consumer sciences and human sciences   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences   32   30   28   25   19   16   17   21   17   15
      Mathematics and statistics   8   8   6   4   6   4   8   11   10   12
      Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences   5   2   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Natural resources and conservation   11   17   12   11   17   13   15   29   0   0
      Physical sciences   54   63   58   63   53   61   53   46   47   41
      Psychology   6   5   6   4   4   2   0   0   0   1
      Social sciences   8   4   2   18   16   16   11   14   15   23
    Engineering   97   73   72   57   58   48   36   37   45   47
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering   2   1   0   2   5   4   0   0   0   0
      Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering   27   15   12   5   11   10   8   9   9   6
      Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields   35   28   30   22   9   6   6   7   8   9
      Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering   5   4   8   9   11   7   8   10   14   11
      Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research   3   7   3   6   2   0   0   0   0   0
      Mechanical engineering   15   8   8   4   8   7   7   6   5   5
      Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Other engineering   10   10   11   9   12   14   7   5   9   16
    Health   20   21   24   23   16   12   21   28   7   6
      Clinical medicine   15   15   21   22   16   12   20   20   1   0
      Other health   5   6   3   1   0   0   1   8   6   6

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).

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering

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