Data

Oregon 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	116	133	118	102	121	122	126	122	125	118
Science and engineering	105	116	109	91	111	115	116	112	118	112
Science	88	92	94	83	96	98	91	91	99	94
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	20	27	30	16	9	14	9	26	29	25
Biological and biomedical sciences	15	8	14	28	34	34	34	33	33	29
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	3	2	2	0	0	1	1	2	2	4
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	1
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	11	14	15	11	19	16	15	14	16	17
Mathematics and statistics	1	1	2	0	0	2	2	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	26	23	22	20	22	16	18	0	0	0
Physical sciences	10	12	8	6	9	12	10	13	13	16
Psychology	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Social sciences	1	2	1	2	3	3	2	1	2	2
Engineering	17	24	15	8	15	17	25	21	19	18
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	4	5	8
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	6	13	7	3	11	9	11	11	5	5
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	0
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	3	3	4	2	1	2	4	3	5	2
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	3	3	2	1	1	3	8	3	4	3
Health	11	17	9	11	10	7	10	10	7	6
Clinical medicine	1	1	1	1	0	0	2	2	2	2
Other health	10	16	8	10	10	7	8	8	5	4

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).