Data

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy

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	76	76	76	i	80	i	80	47	42	42	49	49
Science and engineering	76	76	76	i	80	i	80	47	42	42	49	49
Science	29	29	29	i	33	i	33	17	23	17	11	19
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	2	2	2	i	2	i	2	6	5	0	0	0
Communication	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	3	3	3	i	3	i	3	1	1	10	3	5
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	i	4	i	4	0	4	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	5	5	5	i	5	i	5	0	3	1	2	5
Natural resources and conservation	5	5	5	i	5	i	5	3	2	0	0	0
Physical sciences	14	14	14	i	14	i	14	7	8	6	6	9
Psychology	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0
Social sciences	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	47	47	47	i	47	i	47	30	19	25	38	30
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	25	25	25	i	25	i	25	7	4	19	30	17
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	2	2	2	i	2	i	2	6	6	1	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	1	1	1	i	1	i	1	1	0	0	0	1
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	2	2	i	2	i	2	3	1	2	2	4
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	15	15	15	i	15	i	15	13	8	1	2	8
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	2	2	2	i	2	i	2	0	0	0	3	0
Other engineering	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	2	1	0
Health	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other health	0	0	0	i	0	i	0	0	0	0	0	0

i=imputed

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).