Data

U. Connecticut

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	156	144	167	150	152	136	134	139	126	123
Science and engineering	146	130	139	124	122	112	97	97	85	92
Science	125	112	121	103	106	98	84	82	74	80
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	3	2	1	4	4	4	2	5	5	2
Biological and biomedical sciences	62	58	66	55	52	59	57	49	44	51
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	3	3	9	6	6	7	7	7	7	5
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	17	11	9	9	13	7	3	3	4	2
Natural resources and conservation	6	3	5	4	3	1	1	0	0	0
Physical sciences	21	23	24	19	18	17	11	8	4	7
Psychology	11	10	5	3	8	2	2	1	1	0
Social sciences	2	2	2	3	2	1	1	3	1	1
Engineering	21	18	18	21	16	14	13	15	11	12
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	6	5	6	7	5	2	2	1	1	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	3	6	5	3	1	4	4	2	1	1
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	5	1	1	3	5	5	6	5	1	1
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	4	2	4	7	2	2	1	0	2	2
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	1	2	2	1	2	0	0	7	6	6
Other engineering	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	10	14	28	26	30	24	37	42	41	31
Clinical medicine	1	4	13	13	11	10	15	23	22	17
Other health	9	10	15	13	19	14	22	19	19	14

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).