Data

U. Illinois, Chicago

Postdoctorates in science, engineering, and health, by selected characteristics: 2024–15
All races	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
Science and engineering	154	130	121	129	119	127	68	118	140	121
Science	124	108	100	110	99	110	61	93	117	106
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	78	69	65	67	65	82	53	65	87	80
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	2	0	1	2	1	1	0	1	4	3
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	3	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	6	5	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	1	1	0	5	2	0	0	1	1	1
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Physical sciences	24	27	22	25	27	20	6	12	18	21
Psychology	5	2	3	3	3	2	2	3	1	1
Social sciences	10	7	7	6	1	4	0	4	1	0
Engineering	30	22	21	19	20	17	7	25	23	15
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	10	4	5	6	9	6	3	5	7	6
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	6	6	3	2	1	1	0	5	4	1
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	3	2	3	6	2	2	0	1	0	1
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	2	3	2	3	2	1	6	3	1
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	8	8	7	3	5	6	3	8	9	6
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	160	122	112	118	101	95	49	86	89	93
Clinical medicine	100	65	74	74	59	53	28	54	56	58
Other health	60	57	38	44	42	42	21	32	33	35

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).