Data

Princeton 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	784	718	645	694	665	660	621	592	522	526
Science	589	527	485	511	496	519	500	470	416	410
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	149	134	130	154	140	179	171	172	111	107
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	5	0	0	0	0	14	22	0	17	13
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	70	69	60	61	54	51	41	45	43	40
Mathematics and statistics	17	16	24	21	18	20	17	20	13	13
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	14	9	8	9	8	8	2	1	2	1
Natural resources and conservation	41	39	27	16	12	10	6	8	0	0
Physical sciences	175	143	129	132	159	134	145	142	109	108
Psychology	11	13	14	9	11	11	9	10	8	8
Social sciences	107	104	93	109	94	92	87	72	59	74
Engineering	195	191	160	183	169	141	121	122	106	116
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	40	39	24	28	36	35	27	24	26	28
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	40	44	36	38	29	26	20	16	17	15
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	63	61	51	64	55	34	33	49	24	27
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	3	4	8	5	7	5	7	6	7	10
Mechanical engineering	29	32	33	37	34	33	34	27	29	34
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	12	11	8	11	8	8	0	0	2	2
Other engineering	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
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).