Data

Kansas State 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	66	62	71	65	80	61	102	57	81	85
Science and engineering	66	62	71	65	78	59	96	42	74	76
Science	58	55	66	63	74	59	85	40	70	72
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	19	24	22	37	11	10	11	7	6	10
Biological and biomedical sciences	26	15	27	14	46	27	47	19	39	41
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	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	12	12	13	12	16	20	27	10	22	14
Psychology	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1
Social sciences	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	1	4
Engineering	8	7	5	2	4	0	11	2	4	4
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	2
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Mechanical engineering	1	2	0	1	2	0	4	0	0	0
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	4	1	0	0	1	0	4	2	1	0
Health	0	0	0	0	2	2	6	15	7	9
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other health	0	0	0	0	2	2	6	15	7	9

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).