Data

Northeastern 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	165	150	150	136	114	132	150	126	95	96
Science	117	107	103	94	82	91	101	88	64	72
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	14	10	22	22	17	23	25	11	3	10
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	14	13	15	6	13	12	11	7	6	1
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	7	4	1	2	2	0	0	9	4	5
Mathematics and statistics	5	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	44	53	45	48	38	39	45	41	39	37
Psychology	21	9	13	12	10	11	11	11	8	11
Social sciences	6	14	4	4	2	6	9	9	4	8
Engineering	48	43	47	42	32	41	49	38	31	24
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	7	8	9	10	12	9	8	2	1	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	9	1	8	7	5	5	8	9	3	4
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	8	8	5	5	2	6	4	1	4	4
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	10	19	19	14	10	15	18	15	11	4
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	14	7	6	6	3	6	11	11	12	12
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	46	69	55	43	38	22	14	23	19	21
Clinical medicine	0	14	1	0	3	2	1	5	3	0
Other health	46	55	54	43	35	20	13	18	16	21

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).