Data

Oregon State U.

Postdoctorates in science, engineering, and health, by selected characteristics: 2024–15
All races	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
Science and engineering	193	177	185	159	186	174	185	192	171	174
Science	160	153	153	139	166	154	161	163	148	148
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	62	55	55	55	47	16	26	19	48	45
Biological and biomedical sciences	21	23	20	21	54	55	59	58	49	49
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	4	3	4	4	0	0	2	1	3	3
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	6
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	17	14	17	16	15	23	20	29	22	24
Mathematics and statistics	3	2	3	3	2	0	2	3	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	35	37	35	28	32	34	28	32	0	0
Physical sciences	10	11	13	9	8	13	15	12	16	19
Psychology	2	4	4	1	6	5	4	5	4	0
Social sciences	6	4	2	2	2	8	5	4	1	2
Engineering	33	24	32	20	20	20	24	29	23	26
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	2	3	2	1	2	2	2	1	5	6
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	11	6	15	10	11	12	12	13	11	9
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	4	3	3	1	2	3	2	2	0	0
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	5	3	3	5	3	1	3	5	4	7
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	8	7	7	2	1	2	4	8	3	4
Health	21	19	22	14	19	43	37	44	42	38
Clinical medicine	3	3	1	2	2	1	0	4	5	4
Other health	18	16	21	12	17	42	37	40	37	34

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).