Data

Iowa State 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	277	275	269	274	190	240	274	264	274	307
Science	232	241	233	221	150	186	212	208	217	249
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	111	100	89	98	30	34	46	47	48	48
Biological and biomedical sciences	29	35	35	32	37	48	64	69	78	85
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	2	2	1	0	0	3	4	2	1	1
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	4	6	9	5	5	6	4	5	2	3
Mathematics and statistics	11	10	13	11	6	6	3	3	7	14
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	3	2	1	3	5	5	1	0	0	0
Physical sciences	64	78	75	59	61	69	74	61	64	79
Psychology	3	6	5	11	4	6	8	3	1	1
Social sciences	5	2	5	2	2	9	8	17	16	16
Engineering	45	34	36	53	40	54	62	56	57	58
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	7	3	3	4	3	6	5	4	4	2
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	12	8	7	4	2	5	6	9	8	8
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	7	4	9	17	12	12	15	5	11	14
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	9	5	1	8	7	6	6	8	4	7
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	2	1	1	2	3	2	0	1
Mechanical engineering	1	3	4	6	5	4	8	9	11	10
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	5	5	4	6	5	10	10	11	9	5
Other engineering	4	6	6	7	5	9	9	8	10	11
Health	0	0	3	1	74	83	52	44	25	24
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1
Other health	0	0	3	1	74	83	52	41	25	23

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).