Data

U. Arizona

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	233	148	157	252	252	289	250	243	235	236
Science and engineering	228	144	153	225	229	271	227	221	204	207
Science	196	134	135	188	202	232	212	201	189	193
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	13	13	11	1	19	25	17	9	14	9
Biological and biomedical sciences	84	51	54	101	95	118	77	76	64	61
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1	1	1	3	5	4	4	6	3	7
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	11	9	11	18	15	14	12	12	17	17
Mathematics and statistics	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	3
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	12	10	8	0	11	11	6	0	0	0
Physical sciences	51	34	34	46	40	37	78	82	77	84
Psychology	6	5	3	2	2	5	11	5	5	0
Social sciences	16	9	11	13	11	15	6	7	6	8
Engineering	32	10	18	37	27	39	15	20	15	14
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	6	2	3
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	2	2	2	1	3	3	1	0	0	1
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	7	1	4	5	1	1	2	1	2	2
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	1	1	1
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	13	5	9	22	16	28	0	2	4	4
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	6	1	1	3	4	3	0	0	0	0
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	1	0	1	5	3	4	0	4	2	2
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	6	4	1
Health	5	4	4	27	23	18	23	22	31	29
Clinical medicine	3	3	3	9	8	4	18	19	18	22
Other health	2	1	1	18	15	14	5	3	13	7

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).