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Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health receiving primary support from federal sources, by field: 2023–14
Field 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
All surveyed fields   325   287   283   235   229   238   250   252   247 i   249 i
  Science and engineering   323   286   281   234   224   229   244   246   237 i   239 i
    Science   194   187   163   128   110   135   162   146   130 i   120 i
      Agricultural and veterinary sciences   25   31   29   16   12   12   18   64   51 i   45 i
      Biological and biomedical sciences   16   27   19   12   17   20   26   18   13 i   9 i
      Communication   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 i   0 i
      Computer and information sciences   35   30   35   21   7   14   25   26   26 i   20 i
      Family and consumer sciences and human sciences   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 i   0 i
      Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences   12   9   7   11   5   8   9   3   7 i   14 i
      Mathematics and statistics   3   0   0   0   0   1   1   0   0 i   3 i
      Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences   0   0   0   0   0   0   3   0   0 i   0 i
      Natural resources and conservation   33   31   28   41   37   53   51   0   0 i   0 i
      Physical sciences   40   37   28   15   15   12   18   16   14 i   16 i
      Psychology   23   16   12   6   7   2   3   11   12 i   7 i
      Social sciences   7   6   5   6   10   13   8   8   7 i   6 i
    Engineering   129   99   118   106   114   94   82   100   107 i   119 i
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering   5   4   8   7   15   14   12   7   5 i   10 i
      Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering   12   7   7   8   6   8   8   4   8 i   8 i
      Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering   8   11   9   10   10   8   5   8   16 i   9 i
      Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields   2   2   8   10   4   4   2   3   4 i   5 i
      Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering   31   26   22   25   22   11   17   16   21 i   23 i
      Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research   8   7   15   15   20   9   13   12   8 i   7 i
      Mechanical engineering   26   29   41   26   33   31   13   42   37 i   38 i
      Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 i   0 i
      Other engineering   37   13   8   5   4   9   12   8   8 i   19 i
  Health   2   1   2   1   5   9   6   6   10 i   10 i
    Clinical medicine   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0 i   0 i
    Other health   2   1   2   1   5   9   6   6   10 i   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).

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

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