Data

U. Alabama, The, Birmingham

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	147	127	164	182	168	159	167	162	162	144
Science and engineering	58	52	78	95	86	79	88	77	79	70
Science	56	51	72	91	85	76	82	73	79	69
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	50	47	67	79	75	62	69	53	59	54
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
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	5	5	4	6	6	5	4
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	4	3	1	1	1	5	4	4	3	3
Psychology	1	1	3	5	3	5	3	1	4	2
Social sciences	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	2	1	6	4	1	3	6	4	0	1
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	2	1	6	4	1	3	5	4	0	1
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	89	75	86	87	82	80	79	85	83	74
Clinical medicine	78	65	77	76	72	72	66	73	69	56
Other health	11	10	9	11	10	8	13	12	14	18

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).