Data

Boston U.

Postdoctorates in science, engineering, and health, by selected characteristics: 2024–15
All races	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
Science and engineering	265	254	241	241	217	256	265	264	255	285
Science	209	191	183	183	172	198	194	195	171	198
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	102	97	87	86	86	95	87	104	67	72
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	4	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	5	9
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	11	10	8	8	8	10	9	9	13	12
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	22	11	8	5	4	11	12	8	6	13
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	37	37	38	39	33	44	46	42	48	46
Psychology	17	19	24	26	22	20	23	19	20	26
Social sciences	16	13	15	15	14	14	12	8	10	13
Engineering	56	63	58	58	45	58	71	69	84	87
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	30	38	38	33	26	39	42	38	44	45
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	16	16	13	16	12	12	16	21	23	25
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	1	1	1	1	1	2	6	5	0	1
Mechanical engineering	9	8	5	8	6	4	7	5	17	16
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	55	60	66	63	67	80	102	84	73	136
Clinical medicine	37	36	40	38	36	52	70	58	48	106
Other health	18	24	26	25	31	28	32	26	25	30

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).