Data

Carnegie Mellon 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	99	120	123	128	133	124	118	148	126	112
Science and engineering	99	120	123	128	133	124	118	148	126	112
Science	75	74	76	74	77	75	70	100	71	68
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	8	9	4	10	12	16	10	19	9	12
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	16	20	17	12	12	13	13	32	22	17
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	7	6	12	8	1	5	4	6	8	9
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	5	5	4	5	8	2	4	6	0	4
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	23	18	17	18	23	20	17	17	16	13
Psychology	9	10	18	18	17	14	17	15	13	13
Social sciences	7	6	4	3	4	5	5	5	3	0
Engineering	24	46	47	54	56	49	48	48	55	44
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	8	5	6	7	7	6	6	4	5	2
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	2	3	3	4	7	7	2	1	1	3
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	3	5	5	7	3	0	3	5	3	5
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	0	10	8	11	14	13	11	15	18	9
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
Mechanical engineering	11	23	22	24	25	21	24	21	27	24
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	3	0	0	1	2	1	1	1
Health	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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).