Data

Brown 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	193	191	182	153	158	117	115	112	187	158
Science and engineering	170	175	163	131	139	114	113	106	178	154
Science	135	137	127	101	117	98	93	81	145	127
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	65	62	58	35	64	53	43	33	21	27
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	3	2	2	5	3	1	0	0	4	7
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	14	10	7	9	4	2	4	4	12	11
Mathematics and statistics	21	23	19	20	16	15	15	13	18	20
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	16	18	19	13	5	17	13	10	43	19
Natural resources and conservation	2	2	2	2	7	2	4	7	0	0
Physical sciences	12	14	16	11	12	6	11	7	12	12
Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	13
Social sciences	2	6	4	6	6	2	3	7	7	4
Engineering	35	38	36	30	22	16	20	25	33	27
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	35	38	36	30	22	16	20	25	31	27
Health	23	16	19	22	19	3	2	6	9	4
Clinical medicine	23	16	19	22	19	3	2	6	9	4
Other health	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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).