Data

Boston U.

Postdoctorates in science, engineering, and health, by selected characteristics: 2023–14
All races	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
Science and engineering	254	241	241	217	256	265	264	255	285	308
Science	191	183	183	172	198	194	195	171	198	200
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	97	87	86	86	95	87	104	67	72	84
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	5	9	6
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	1	1	1	2	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	10	8	8	8	10	9	9	13	12	14
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	11	8	5	4	11	12	8	6	13	10
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	37	38	39	33	44	46	42	48	46	35
Psychology	19	24	26	22	20	23	19	20	26	29
Social sciences	13	15	15	14	14	12	8	10	13	14
Engineering	63	58	58	45	58	71	69	84	87	108
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	38	38	33	26	39	42	38	44	45	49
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	1	0	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	13	16	12	12	16	21	23	25	20
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	1	1	1	1	2	6	5	0	1	1
Mechanical engineering	8	5	8	6	4	7	5	17	16	14
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	24
Health	60	66	63	67	80	102	84	73	136	136
Clinical medicine	36	40	38	36	52	70	58	48	106	111
Other health	24	26	25	31	28	32	26	25	30	25

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).