Data

U. Kentucky

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	119	122	152	141	124	144	113	114	1	71
Science and engineering	108	112	137	125	106	129	102	98	1	46
Science	98	102	118	115	101	122	96	85	1	41
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	11	10	11	9	6	7	7	0	0	9
Biological and biomedical sciences	72	74	85	88	77	94	73	54	0	17
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
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	1	2	0	0	1	1	2
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	11	17	19	17	14	19	15	19	0	11
Psychology	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	6	0	1
Social sciences	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	3	0	0
Engineering	10	10	19	10	5	7	6	13	0	5
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	3	2	5	3	0	0	0	3	0	1
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	1	3	4	3	2	2	3	2	0	1
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	2
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	2	3	5	1	3	1	0	2	0	1
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	3	0	0
Other engineering	2	1	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0
Health	11	10	15	16	18	15	11	16	0	25
Clinical medicine	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Other health	7	10	13	16	18	15	11	16	0	16

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).