Data

Princeton 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	718	645	694	665	660	621	592	522	526	464
Science	527	485	511	496	519	500	470	416	410	352
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	134	130	154	140	179	171	172	111	107	93
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	0	0	0	14	22	0	17	13	9
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	69	60	61	54	51	41	45	43	40	30
Mathematics and statistics	16	24	21	18	20	17	20	13	13	7
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	9	8	9	8	8	2	1	2	1	0
Natural resources and conservation	39	27	16	12	10	6	8	0	0	0
Physical sciences	143	129	132	159	134	145	142	109	108	107
Psychology	13	14	9	11	11	9	10	8	8	9
Social sciences	104	93	109	94	92	87	72	59	74	55
Engineering	191	160	183	169	141	121	122	106	116	112
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	39	24	28	36	35	27	24	26	28	31
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	44	36	38	29	26	20	16	17	15	15
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	61	51	64	55	34	33	49	24	27	24
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	4	8	5	7	5	7	6	7	10	10
Mechanical engineering	32	33	37	34	33	34	27	29	34	26
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	11	8	11	8	8	0	0	2	2	5
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other health	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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).