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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   331   346   363   323   329   290   271   212   220   211
  Science and engineering   311   324   340   310   316   282   266   203   211   196
    Science   280   296   314   293   290   265   250   190   194   183
      Agricultural and veterinary sciences   27   27   36   29   36   32   23   27   21   23
      Biological and biomedical sciences   138   155   153   139   143   136   127   100   104   92
      Communication   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   1   1
      Computer and information sciences   5   6   2   3   4   1   6   3   8   8
      Family and consumer sciences and human sciences   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0
      Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences   4   3   5   7   5   4   3   1   3   1
      Mathematics and statistics   14   12   10   11   13   9   9   4   4   7
      Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences   2   7   12   4   3   3   3   3   0   0
      Natural resources and conservation   6   9   11   12   10   12   14   0   0   0
      Physical sciences   64   60   64   65   59   56   54   44   46   45
      Psychology   8   6   10   12   7   6   3   2   2   1
      Social sciences   12   11   11   11   10   6   8   3   4   3
    Engineering   31   28   26   17   26   17   16   13   17   13
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering   8   4   4   1   4   2   2   0   0   0
      Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields   8   7   4   2   2   1   2   1   3   4
      Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering   7   8   8   4   5   5   4   4   5   2
      Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Mechanical engineering   5   6   7   10   11   5   5   4   1   2
      Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   1
      Other engineering   3   3   3   0   4   4   3   4   8   4
  Health   20   22   23   13   13   8   5   9   9   15
    Clinical medicine   17   20   22   12   10   5   3   4   1   9
    Other health   3   2   1   1   3   3   2   5   8   6

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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