Data

U. Iowa

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	158	163	170	107	184	192	173	180	182	190
Science and engineering	80	86	83	63	100	106	85	111	104	108
Science	67	79	69	55	96	99	85	104	97	100
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	36	48	41	36	67	76	65	86	67	69
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	0	1	2	3	7	4	2	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	2	1	2	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
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	17	23	16	11	18	10	12	9	23	19
Psychology	7	4	6	3	7	4	4	6	4	7
Social sciences	3	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Engineering	13	7	14	8	4	7	0	7	7	8
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	2
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	9	4	6	2	0	0	0	4	6	4
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	2	1	2
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Mechanical engineering	4	3	6	6	0	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	78	77	87	44	84	86	88	69	78	82
Clinical medicine	63	68	75	34	74	73	74	57	64	73
Other health	15	9	12	10	10	13	14	12	14	9

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).