Data

Stanford U.

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2023–14
Field 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
All surveyed fields   1,226   1,143   1,065   1,195   1,132   1,012   987   1,002   1,015   942
  Science and engineering   774   718   679   749   694   547   551   571   607   545
    Science   580   559   512   577   580   437   439   431   455   425
      Agricultural and veterinary sciences   1   1   1   1   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Biological and biomedical sciences   359   381   335   371   334   316   317   304   311   298
      Communication   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Computer and information sciences   17   17   18   14   18   11   12   21   14   12
      Family and consumer sciences and human sciences   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences   22   13   16   28   27   16   18   10   14   20
      Mathematics and statistics   16   8   9   9   13   12   14   11   10   5
      Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences   2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Natural resources and conservation   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Physical sciences   139   124   120   133   169   68   65   63   81   56
      Psychology   12   12   11   16   16   14   13   10   16   20
      Social sciences   12   3   2   5   3   0   0   6   3   5
    Engineering   194   159   167   172   114   110   112   140   152   120
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering   8   4   5   9   4   3   2   6   7   7
      Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering   28   28   22   28   25   36   34   22   27   24
      Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering   45   41   35   25   23   9   10   13   17   11
      Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields   24   28   37   40   5   9   8   11   7   8
      Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering   34   21   29   34   32   26   30   34   20   20
      Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   2   3   1
      Mechanical engineering   31   17   20   19   23   27   28   29   35   19
      Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   23   11   8
      Other engineering   24   20   19   17   0   0   0   0   25   22
  Health   452   425   386   446   438   465   436   431   408   397
    Clinical medicine   448   420   381   442   433   459   431   424   401   390
    Other health   4   5   5   4   5   6   5   7   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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