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	204	206	386	409	403	206	200	207	263	206
Science	121	124	229	239	259	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	58	60	60	35	33	19	24	17
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	6	7	12	20	18	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	9	15	25	30	22	9	10	21	27	21
Mathematics and statistics	6	11	23	24	24	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	65	55	85	82	108	61	40	50	66	58
Psychology	3	4	12	8	6	6	4	4	0	0
Social sciences	6	6	14	15	21	11	12	18	19	20
Engineering	83	82	157	170	144	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	17	20	40	45	40	18	20	17	24	19
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	19	15	32	30	22	9	13	15	15	12
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	8	10	12	14	16	8	14	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	20	14	38	34	22	8	9	9	12	9
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	8	12	22	20	8	3	5	2	0	1
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	20	26	12	12	18	32	21
Other engineering	11	11	13	7	10	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).