Data

U. Delaware

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	192	188	186	174	175	154	136	131	129	151
Science	90	98	118	103	106	93	95	78	76	95
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	17	19	19	16	13	10	8	14	21	21
Biological and biomedical sciences	7	4	7	10	8	4	5	6	20	16
Neurobiology and neuroscience	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	4	4	1	1	2	1	1	2	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	16	15	16	24	19	20	18	15	11
Mathematics and statistics	8	3	6	5	5	5	5	4	2	2
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	5	9	14	14	11	8	12	0	0	0
Physical sciences	26	32	37	23	24	31	32	25	7	28
Psychology	4	2	9	7	7	7	5	5	0	0
Social sciences	4	9	10	11	12	8	7	4	3	11
Engineering	102	90	68	71	69	61	41	53	53	56
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	3	1	2	1	5	6	4	3	2	3
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	56	61	47	53	53	35	25	32	38	36
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	9	7	3	0	1	4	3	4	1	3
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	13	5	5	9	7	10	2	1	0	0
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	6	8	5	0	0	3	5	2	0	0
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	15	8	6	8	3	3	2	11	12	14
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	2	2	9	9	6	6	8	6	3	15
Clinical medicine	0	1	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other health	2	1	7	5	6	6	8	6	3	15

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).