Data

U. California, Irvine

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	362	345	324	321	294	256	274	261	228	256
Science	289	262	248	257	245	221	232	212	192	224
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	158	139	125	117	108	94	96	76	73	88
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	8	11	7	8	12	11	9	5	3	6
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	15	17	21	21	18	18	18	16	14	20
Mathematics and statistics	10	8	8	11	7	7	3	1	4	5
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	5	2	8	0	4	2	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	60	66	62	60	54	59	72	67	59	62
Psychology	17	5	7	12	9	5	1	0	0	0
Social sciences	12	12	9	28	33	25	33	15	16	16
Engineering	73	83	76	64	49	35	42	49	36	32
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	8	7	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	19	24	19	14	12	13	0	19	13	15
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	7	8	10	7	8	7	15	13	9	7
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	12	17	14	13	10	5	11	9	8	4
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	9	12	10	10	7	6	8	4	4	2
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	0	0	0	0	3	4	7	4	2	4
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	13	14	16	15	8	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	5	1	3	2	1	0	1	0	0	0
Health	62	67	65	68	82	85	71	77	69	59
Clinical medicine	45	48	45	53	75	72	58	63	61	58
Other health	17	19	20	15	7	13	13	14	8	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).