Data

Colorado State U., Fort Collins

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	152	120	134	118	112	107	124	122	111	117
Science and engineering	145	112	129	115	107	102	120	118	108	112
Science	130	99	118	99	90	85	103	105	94	100
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	14	14	17	10	16	15	16	10	16	14
Biological and biomedical sciences	41	31	33	30	33	26	36	35	47	45
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	26	15	18	19	11	13	16	15	15	15
Mathematics and statistics	1	1	2	4	5	6	3	6	3	4
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Natural resources and conservation	21	12	18	18	13	10	12	16	0	0
Physical sciences	21	21	25	15	10	10	12	16	10	20
Psychology	4	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	0	0
Social sciences	2	1	1	1	0	3	6	5	1	1
Engineering	15	13	11	16	17	17	17	13	14	12
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	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	1	1	2	7	8	4	3	1	1	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	6	5	7	6	4	4	6	8	10	8
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	3	3	2	2	4	4	6	2	1	2
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	5	4	0	1	1	5	2	2	2	2
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	7	8	5	3	5	5	4	4	3	5
Clinical medicine	4	4	3	2	3	3	4	3	3	3
Other health	3	4	2	1	2	2	0	1	0	2

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).