Data

U. Houston

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	85	57	77	82	49	61	63	66	59	54
Science and engineering	82	55	72	79	44	53	58	55	49	51
Science	61	37	54	54	31	38	39	41	34	39
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	14	9	17	22	17	21	13	10	13	9
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	3	2	4	3	0	4	3	4	3	4
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	4	2	4	3	0	1	2	1	0	3
Mathematics and statistics	5	2	1	2	2	2	5	2	0	4
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	25	17	16	17	9	7	7	20	9	10
Psychology	10	5	12	7	3	3	9	4	8	7
Social sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	21	18	18	25	13	15	19	14	15	12
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	4	5	5	9	4	3	7	4	6	8
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	7	4	1	7	4	3	2	4	3	1
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	4	7	7	2	3	5	6	3	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	5	2	5	4	1	2	3	3	4	3
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	1	0	0	3	1	1	1	0	2	0
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Health	3	2	5	3	5	8	5	11	10	3
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Other health	3	2	5	3	5	8	5	11	9	3

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).