Data

U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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   464   443   449   493   458   413   453   500   533   515
    Science   296   278   293   328   352   315   343   395   411   398
      Agricultural and veterinary sciences   31   39   35   49   33   17   14   18   29   28
      Biological and biomedical sciences   75   72   92   81   89   83   107   111   125   130
        Neurobiology and neuroscience   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Communication   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Computer and information sciences   37   34   36   33   28   43   51   53   46   30
      Family and consumer sciences and human sciences   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences   6   4   6   4   6   8   8   5   4   9
      Mathematics and statistics   20   10   9   12   17   14   16   16   15   17
      Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences   0   0   0   0   44   39   49   65   60   61
      Natural resources and conservation   17   24   22   29   23   19   6   0   0   0
      Physical sciences   89   79   80   97   93   85   82   103   113   103
      Psychology   9   5   5   14   10   3   3   6   5   7
      Social sciences   12   11   8   9   9   4   7   18   14   13
    Engineering   168   165   156   165   106   98   110   105   122   117
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering   12   11   7   5   2   4   5   6   6   6
      Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering   11   15   10   16   16   9   5   5   8   9
      Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering   18   21   16   11   10   9   12   18   15   12
      Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields   14   11   14   7   6   7   15   12   14   19
      Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering   9   10   12   9   10   8   10   7   6   7
      Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   2   2   3
      Mechanical engineering   18   11   18   24   21   23   17   14   17   16
      Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields   35   34   25   28   24   20   25   35   46   38
      Other engineering   51   52   54   65   17   18   21   6   8   7
    Health   11   8   4   5   15   10   6   12   9   10
      Clinical medicine   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Other health   11   8   4   5   15   10   6   12   9   10

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).

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering

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