Data

U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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   521   469   443   447   494   459   413   453   500   533
    Science   324   301   279   293   329   354   315   343   395   411
      Agricultural and veterinary sciences   36   32   39   35   49   33   17   14   18   29
      Biological and biomedical sciences   72   77   73   91   81   89   83   107   111   125
      Communication   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Computer and information sciences   36   38   34   36   33   29   43   51   53   46
      Family and consumer sciences and human sciences   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences   8   6   4   6   4   6   8   8   5   4
      Mathematics and statistics   20   20   10   9   12   17   14   16   16   15
      Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences   0   0   0   0   0   44   39   49   65   60
      Natural resources and conservation   22   17   23   23   29   23   19   6   0   0
      Physical sciences   104   90   80   80   97   94   85   82   103   113
      Psychology   12   9   5   5   14   10   3   3   6   5
      Social sciences   14   12   11   8   10   9   4   7   18   14
    Engineering   197   168   164   154   165   105   98   110   105   122
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering   6   12   11   7   5   2   4   5   6   6
      Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering   15   11   14   9   15   15   9   5   5   8
      Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering   16   18   21   15   11   10   9   12   18   15
      Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields   21   14   11   14   7   6   7   15   12   14
      Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering   10   9   10   12   9   10   8   10   7   6
      Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   2   2
      Mechanical engineering   24   18   11   18   25   21   23   17   14   17
      Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields   39   35   34   25   28   24   20   25   35   46
      Other engineering   66   51   52   54   65   17   18   21   6   8
    Health   10   11   8   4   5   15   10   6   12   9
      Clinical medicine   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Other health   9   11   8   4   5   15   10   6   12   9

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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