Data

Rice 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	213	209	205	208	206	206	200	207	263	206
Science	124	127	119	122	134	142	120	146	180	144
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	26	26	29	30	30	35	33	19	24	17
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	6	7	6	10	9	7	7	12	19	12
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	11	16	13	15	11	9	10	21	27	21
Mathematics and statistics	6	11	12	12	12	13	14	9	8	5
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	17	11
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	66	57	45	43	56	61	40	50	66	58
Psychology	3	4	6	4	3	6	4	4	0	0
Social sciences	6	6	8	8	13	11	12	18	19	20
Engineering	89	82	86	86	72	64	80	61	83	62
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	18	20	22	23	20	18	20	17	24	19
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	20	15	16	15	11	9	13	15	15	12
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	8	10	6	7	8	8	14	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	21	14	19	17	11	8	9	9	12	9
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	11	12	11	10	4	3	5	2	0	1
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	10	13	12	12	18	32	21
Other engineering	11	11	12	4	5	6	7	0	0	0
Health	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	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).