Data

U. Nebraska, Lincoln

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	298	324	318	346	210	166	176	213	198	190
Science	248	254	248	268	171	132	138	174	166	154
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	92	86	104	100	70	39	37	34	33	28
Biological and biomedical sciences	66	72	60	84	48	36	46	76	63	65
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	2	2	2	4	2	0	3	4	8	8
Mathematics and statistics	16	16	10	8	3	4	3	5	6	4
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	1	0
Natural resources and conservation	22	28	20	18	16	15	18	0	0	0
Physical sciences	38	36	40	38	27	30	26	40	39	37
Psychology	2	6	6	8	4	4	2	6	7	5
Social sciences	6	4	4	6	1	4	3	6	7	4
Engineering	50	70	70	78	39	34	38	39	32	36
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	16	22	16	18	8	5	5	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	2	4	10	6	4	6	7	7	4	3
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	12	24	20	20	8	5	3	5	3	4
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	6	8	10	16	8	9	12	9	9	11
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	8	4	6	10	7	9	11	16	11	13
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	6	8	8	8	4	0	0	2	5	5
Health	2	4	2	2	5	4	5	6	7	11
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other health	2	4	2	2	5	4	5	6	7	11

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).