Data

Oregon 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	144	138	121	222	200	185	192	171	174	169
Science	121	107	103	195	171	161	163	148	148	148
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	41	38	43	60	19	26	19	48	45	41
Biological and biomedical sciences	19	17	16	58	53	59	58	49	49	51
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	3	4	4	0	0	2	1	3	3	8
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	6	2
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	11	10	9	17	25	20	29	22	24	20
Mathematics and statistics	1	0	1	1	0	2	3	0	0	3
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	29	23	20	39	40	28	32	0	0	0
Physical sciences	10	11	8	10	18	15	12	16	19	21
Psychology	4	3	1	8	8	4	5	4	0	0
Social sciences	3	1	1	2	8	5	4	1	2	2
Engineering	23	31	18	27	29	24	29	23	26	21
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	3	2	1	3	3	2	1	5	6	10
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	5	14	9	15	17	12	13	11	9	5
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	3	3	1	2	4	2	2	0	0	0
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	3	3	4	3	2	3	5	4	7	3
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	7	7	2	2	3	4	8	3	4	3
Health	18	21	12	23	43	37	44	42	38	32
Clinical medicine	2	1	2	3	1	0	4	5	4	7
Other health	16	20	10	20	42	37	40	37	34	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).