Data

U. California, Riverside

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	118	147	201	134	129	97	116	107	104	89
Science and engineering	117	146	199	134	129	97	116	107	104	89
Science	98	128	172	116	112	81	102	89	85	79
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	62	76	106	75	80	54	60	50	50	52
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	0	3	4	0	0	2	2	1	1
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	1	1	8	4	2	2	2	13	9	3
Mathematics and statistics	0	2	6	1	0	1	0	1	2	1
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	8	12	12	6	4	2	7	0	0	0
Physical sciences	25	31	34	24	23	21	24	17	18	20
Psychology	0	5	1	0	1	0	6	6	5	2
Social sciences	2	1	2	2	2	1	1	0	0	0
Engineering	19	18	27	18	17	16	14	18	19	10
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	4	4	3	3	0	0	1	0	1	1
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	10	0	0	1	9	7	1	7	8	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	9	13	5	5	2	6	4	3	8
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	1	5	10	8	3	7	5	7	7	1
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clinical medicine	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other health	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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).