Data

Tufts 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	155	139	157	173	261	246	206	204	181	193
Science	108	94	122	121	187	177	158	154	132	152
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	3	6	6	1	1	7	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	74	60	77	92	121	123	115	84	70	79
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	2	3	3	3	4	5	4	1	1	2
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	5
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	3	3	4
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	4	5	1	1	4	4	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	15	12	19	17	21	23	22	25	18	24
Psychology	3	2	5	4	4	4	8	11	7	7
Social sciences	7	5	10	2	31	10	5	0	0	0
Engineering	47	45	35	52	74	69	48	50	49	41
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	26	23	18	27	40	43	35	31	27	29
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	4	6	7	7	11	6	0	5	2	3
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	4	3	3	4	8	9	4	5	6	3
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	9	7	4	6	6	4	2	4	4	2
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	3	5	2	5	5	4	7	5	10	4
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	1	1	1	3	4	3	0	0	0	0
Health	7	7	6	9	11	12	0	1	1	1
Clinical medicine	3	2	3	7	3	2	0	0	0	0
Other health	4	5	3	2	8	10	0	1	1	1

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).