Data
Pennsylvania State U.
| Field | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All surveyed fields | 227 | 215 | 206 | 309 | 300 | 238 | 210 | 271 | 290 | 305 | ||||||||||
| Science and engineering | 224 | 213 | 206 | 291 | 285 | 224 | 200 | 263 | 273 | 291 | ||||||||||
| Science | 170 | 163 | 151 | 243 | 229 | 179 | 147 | 221 | 211 | 221 | ||||||||||
| Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 12 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 15 | ||||||||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 60 | 56 | 57 | 149 | 93 | 65 | 64 | 108 | 90 | 105 | ||||||||||
| Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 18 | ||||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 11 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 15 | ||||||||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 10 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences | 51 | 52 | 58 | 60 | 47 | 42 | 34 | 53 | 55 | 54 | ||||||||||
| Psychology | 7 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 33 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Engineering | 54 | 50 | 55 | 48 | 56 | 45 | 53 | 42 | 62 | 70 | ||||||||||
| Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||
| Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mechanical engineering | 8 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | ||||||||||
| Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 16 | 12 | 16 | ||||||||||
| Other engineering | 20 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||
| Health | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 17 | 14 | ||||||||||
| Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 8 | ||||||||||
| Other health | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 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).
