Data

U. Iowa

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2024–15
Field	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
All surveyed fields	172	158	163	170	107	184	192	173	180	182
Science and engineering	92	80	86	83	63	100	106	85	111	104
Science	78	67	79	69	55	96	99	85	104	97
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	39	36	48	41	36	67	76	65	86	67
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	3	0	0	1	2	3	7	4	2	2
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	24	17	23	16	11	18	10	12	9	23
Psychology	6	7	4	6	3	7	4	4	6	4
Social sciences	2	3	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	14	13	7	14	8	4	7	0	7	7
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	10	9	4	6	2	0	0	0	4	6
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	2	1
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Mechanical engineering	4	4	3	6	6	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
Health	80	78	77	87	44	84	86	88	69	78
Clinical medicine	63	63	68	75	34	74	73	74	57	64
Other health	17	15	9	12	10	10	13	14	12	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).