Data

Pennsylvania 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   504   509   346   512   379   374   363   431   403   422
    Science   391   416   276   443   298   291   282   349   307   310
      Agricultural and veterinary sciences   21   29   24   0   18   19   15   29   17   19
      Biological and biomedical sciences   123   139   111   268   142   106   113   175   148   153
        Neurobiology and neuroscience   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   2   2   0
      Communication   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Computer and information sciences   12   8   2   3   3   6   7   20   23   18
      Family and consumer sciences and human sciences   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences   23   17   2   6   15   19   21   22   17   17
      Mathematics and statistics   23   17   13   8   5   17   16   10   7   2
      Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences   11   13   2   19   11   14   8   0   0   0
      Natural resources and conservation   25   22   11   0   7   7   7   0   0   0
      Physical sciences   102   118   85   97   54   64   64   72   69   81
      Psychology   30   20   14   22   15   15   9   9   15   12
      Social sciences   21   33   12   20   28   24   22   10   9   8
    Engineering   113   93   70   69   81   83   81   82   96   112
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering   0   4   0   0   0   0   0   1   1   2
      Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering   16   16   13   10   9   10   12   14   11   8
      Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering   14   10   9   11   9   14   17   11   18   20
      Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields   16   14   14   14   11   7   7   7   7   22
      Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering   13   9   8   9   8   9   10   9   16   15
      Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research   0   0   0   2   1   1   0   1   3   2
      Mechanical engineering   15   13   8   8   5   0   2   10   14   14
      Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields   2   3   1   2   23   20   15   22   18   22
      Other engineering   37   24   17   13   15   22   18   7   8   7
    Health   8   7   2   50   33   27   36   30   33   34
      Clinical medicine   0   0   2   47   26   0   23   29   28   22
      Other health   8   7   0   3   7   27   13   1   5   12

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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