Data

Johns Hopkins 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   812   812   811   808   765   726   763   628   611   606
    Science   670   686   681   685   625   592   626   515   511   515
      Agricultural and veterinary sciences   17   23   33   28   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Biological and biomedical sciences   514   521   531   530   509   472   495   353   357   341
      Communication   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Computer and information sciences   19   16   10   16   13   24   15   8   5   11
      Family and consumer sciences and human sciences   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences   13   9   8   8   9   10   8   8   7   6
      Mathematics and statistics   15   15   11   5   5   4   16   4   2   3
      Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences   2   0   3   6   4   4   2   0   0   0
      Natural resources and conservation   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Physical sciences   61   63   40   48   43   44   49   39   37   39
      Psychology   20   33   37   36   33   28   32   30   32   32
      Social sciences   9   6   8   8   9   6   9   7   16   22
    Engineering   142   126   130   123   140   134   137   113   100   91
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering   56   54   50   32   30   36   40   31   26   22
      Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering   26   22   20   27   32   36   29   22   22   21
      Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields   18   14   17   14   13   10   12   8   11   9
      Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering   10   7   7   10   13   12   10   9   5   3
      Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Mechanical engineering   17   20   17   18   26   24   28   23   24   25
      Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields   15   9   19   22   26   16   18   13   12   11
      Other engineering   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   7   0   0
  Health   958   928   919   915   1,042   1,060   1,005   1,069   1,068   1,109
    Clinical medicine   949   922   916   914   1,015   1,037   994   1,051   1,050   1,091
    Other health   9   6   3   1   27   23   11   18   18   18

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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