Data

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.

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	306	264	243	229	220	199	207	221	205	203
Science	222	183	174	162	151	124	126	127	116	120
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	33	34	33	34	27	16	12	14	29	28
Biological and biomedical sciences	40	27	30	27	30	24	21	21	21	44
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	12	10	3	4	4	2	4	2	2	5
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	7	4	4	5	3	1	2	3	2	4
Mathematics and statistics	17	15	9	5	5	5	3	3	1	1
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	38	34	30	28	34	23	35	32	35	8
Natural resources and conservation	17	16	15	15	10	12	10	12	0	0
Physical sciences	49	35	41	37	36	38	34	35	22	25
Psychology	4	2	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	1
Social sciences	5	6	9	7	2	2	3	4	3	4
Engineering	84	81	69	67	69	75	81	94	89	83
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	3	4	3	4	3	4	3	2	1	4
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	4	5	6	4	6	8	6	4	4	5
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	2	1	4	1	2	0	1	4	4	3
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	26	25	16	16	10	10	23	24	23	21
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	19	15	15	14	18	23	20	21	17	16
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	1	0	0	0	3	3	3	4	1	2
Mechanical engineering	13	15	16	19	15	13	13	22	22	13
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	6	5	2	4	5	4	4	5	9	8
Other engineering	10	11	7	5	7	10	8	8	8	11
Health	2	3	4	5	2	10	11	9	9	22
Clinical medicine	2	3	4	5	2	3	1	2	2	14
Other health	0	0	0	0	0	7	10	7	7	8

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).