Data

U. Illinois, Chicago

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	181	165	168	151	167	89	142	132	128	139
Science and engineering	93	85	82	81	93	54	83	84	74	83
Science	77	69	66	66	84	48	67	76	68	75
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	55	50	42	45	64	42	49	58	56	60
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	2
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	1	0	6	5	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	20	16	17	19	15	4	7	12	11	11
Psychology	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	0	0	2
Social sciences	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0
Engineering	16	16	16	15	9	6	16	8	6	8
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	4	5	5	7	5	3	5	3	3	5
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	4	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	2	3	6	2	2	0	1	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	2	0	0
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	6	6	3	4	2	2	4	3	3	3
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	88	80	86	70	74	35	59	48	54	56
Clinical medicine	48	52	52	44	42	22	38	36	39	39
Other health	40	28	34	26	32	13	21	12	15	17

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).