Data

New York 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   424   481   397   613   553   550   549   536   579   513
  Science and engineering   296   343   276   403   395   389   361   456   488   513
    Science   289   333   269   393   386   379   351   446   478   513
      Agricultural and veterinary sciences   0   0   0   2   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Biological and biomedical sciences   229   263   216   311   318   291   300   240   296   352
      Communication   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Computer and information sciences   8   5   4   3   4   5   8   7   6   5
      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   6   5   12   19   12   12   13   14   14   14
      Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences   2   3   0   0   0   0   0   38   18   0
      Natural resources and conservation   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Physical sciences   29   29   21   31   28   32   20   20   21   26
      Psychology   14   26   15   26   18   27   10   25   22   23
      Social sciences   1   2   1   1   6   12   0   3   1   1
    Engineering   7   10   7   10   9   10   10   10   10   0
      Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering   0   1   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
      Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering   3   4   2   3   3   2   3   1   3   0
      Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields   2   1   1   2   1   0   1   0   3   0
      Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering   0   1   1   2   0   0   1   0   3   0
      Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0   0
      Mechanical engineering   2   3   3   3   5   0   5   9   1   0
      Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields   0   0   0   0   0   7   0   0   0   0
      Other engineering   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
  Health   128   138   121   210   158   161   188   80   91   0
    Clinical medicine   124   123   112   201   146   152   180   80   91   0
    Other health   4   15   9   9   12   9   8   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).

SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering

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