Data

Texas A&M U.

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2024–15
Field	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
All surveyed fields	580	194	203	145	283	211	227	255	258	265
Science and engineering	520	192	196	137	262	200	208	238	236	237
Science	387	162	156	108	222	162	176	216	216	215
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	92	32	29	9	25	13	12	18	27	20
Biological and biomedical sciences	137	56	69	60	148	77	103	99	119	129
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	1	0	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	20	9	9	8	9	6	6	6	9	6
Mathematics and statistics	10	3	3	4	5	4	6	2	4	2
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	4	1	1	0	0	16	6	43	5	11
Natural resources and conservation	1	1	0	0	2	5	6	10	0	0
Physical sciences	88	31	28	21	31	38	35	36	38	37
Psychology	15	23	11	1	0	0	0	0	5	0
Social sciences	20	5	6	3	0	1	0	0	2	3
Engineering	133	30	40	29	40	38	32	22	20	22
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	9	3	4	1	3	2	3	2	0	3
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	18	5	4	3	7	4	6	3	1	2
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	25	6	4	3	8	11	7	3	2	3
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	12	5	8	2	3	8	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	16	7	10	5	9	3	5	5	5	8
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	4	0	0	0	2	1	2	2	0	0
Mechanical engineering	13	2	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	8	13	6	6	5	4	7	1
Other engineering	36	2	1	1	1	1	4	3	5	5
Health	60	2	7	8	21	11	19	17	22	28
Clinical medicine	11	1	4	5	12	3	0	0	1	0
Other health	49	1	3	3	9	8	19	17	21	28

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).