Data

Stanford U.

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2024–15
Field 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
All surveyed fields   1,325   1,226   1,143   1,065   1,195   1,132   1,012   987   1,002   1,015
  Science and engineering   843   774   718   679   749   694   547   551   571   607
    Science   601   580   559   512   577   580   437   439   431   455
      Agricultural and veterinary sciences   0   1   1   1   1   0   0   0   0   0
      Biological and biomedical sciences   376   359   381   335   371   334   316   317   304   311
      Communication   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Computer and information sciences   15   17   17   18   14   18   11   12   21   14
      Family and consumer sciences and human sciences   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences   22   22   13   16   28   27   16   18   10   14
      Mathematics and statistics   12   16   8   9   9   13   12   14   11   10
      Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences   1   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Natural resources and conservation   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Physical sciences   152   139   124   120   133   169   68   65   63   81
      Psychology   13   12   12   11   16   16   14   13   10   16
      Social sciences   10   12   3   2   5   3   0   0   6   3
    Engineering   242   194   159   167   172   114   110   112   140   152
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering   10   8   4   5   9   4   3   2   6   7
      Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering   42   28   28   22   28   25   36   34   22   27
      Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering   49   45   41   35   25   23   9   10   13   17
      Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields   33   24   28   37   40   5   9   8   11   7
      Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering   40   34   21   29   34   32   26   30   34   20
      Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research   0   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   2   3
      Mechanical engineering   48   31   17   20   19   23   27   28   29   35
      Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   23   11
      Other engineering   20   24   20   19   17   0   0   0   0   25
    Health   482   452   425   386   446   438   465   436   431   408
      Clinical medicine   478   448   420   381   442   433   459   431   424   401
      Other health   4   4   5   5   4   5   6   5   7   7

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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