Data
Mississippi State U.
| Field | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All surveyed fields | 324 | 325 | 287 | 283 | 235 | 229 | 238 | 250 | 252 | 247 | i | |||||||||
| Science and engineering | 323 | 323 | 286 | 281 | 234 | 224 | 229 | 244 | 246 | 237 | i | |||||||||
| Science | 217 | 194 | 187 | 163 | 128 | 110 | 135 | 162 | 146 | 130 | i | |||||||||
| Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 34 | 25 | 31 | 29 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 64 | 51 | i | |||||||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 16 | 16 | 27 | 19 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 26 | 18 | 13 | i | |||||||||
| Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | i | |||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 28 | 35 | 30 | 35 | 21 | 7 | 14 | 25 | 26 | 26 | i | |||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | i | |||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 17 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 7 | i | |||||||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | i | |||||||||
| Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | i | |||||||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 44 | 33 | 31 | 28 | 41 | 37 | 53 | 51 | 0 | 0 | i | |||||||||
| Physical sciences | 33 | 40 | 37 | 28 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 14 | i | |||||||||
| Psychology | 41 | 23 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | i | |||||||||
| Social sciences | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 7 | i | |||||||||
| Engineering | 106 | 129 | 99 | 118 | 106 | 114 | 94 | 82 | 100 | 107 | i | |||||||||
| Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 5 | i | |||||||||
| Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 14 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 8 | i | |||||||||
| Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 5 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 16 | i | |||||||||
| Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | i | |||||||||
| Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 28 | 31 | 26 | 22 | 25 | 22 | 11 | 17 | 16 | 21 | i | |||||||||
| Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 14 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 8 | i | |||||||||
| Mechanical engineering | 25 | 26 | 29 | 41 | 26 | 33 | 31 | 13 | 42 | 37 | i | |||||||||
| Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | i | |||||||||
| Other engineering | 13 | 37 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 8 | i | |||||||||
| Health | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 10 | i | |||||||||
| Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | i | |||||||||
| Other health | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 10 | i | |||||||||
i=imputed
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).

