Data

Temple 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	78	78	103	83	96	99	105	129	109	129
Science and engineering	58	60	81	77	85	86	79	95	81	93
Science	55	57	77	74	77	80	69	89	76	84
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	30	33	44	47	49	53	37	44	40	47
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	5	2
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	13	12	19	17	14	17	21	23	19	24
Psychology	10	11	11	7	11	10	11	11	9	6
Social sciences	1	0	3	2	3	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	3	3	4	3	8	6	10	6	5	9
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	1	2	1	2	2	3	3	2	1	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	1	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	7
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	0	0	1	0	1	1	3	2	0	0
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	1	0	1	1	2	2	4	2	3	2
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Health	20	18	22	6	11	13	26	34	28	36
Clinical medicine	15	12	17	5	10	9	21	28	28	35
Other health	5	6	5	1	1	4	5	6	0	1

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).