Data

U. Nebraska, Lincoln

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	67	73	70	78	69	79	72	90	98	89
Science and engineering	67	72	69	77	66	77	70	88	94	84
Science	56	59	56	62	57	64	52	72	78	71
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	21	20	19	18	14	14	6	15	12	10
Biological and biomedical sciences	14	19	16	22	24	20	21	27	28	29
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	4	4
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Natural resources and conservation	6	7	6	4	5	7	7	0	0	0
Physical sciences	12	9	11	11	13	21	14	21	24	17
Psychology	1	2	2	4	1	1	0	2	4	4
Social sciences	1	1	1	2	0	1	3	3	4	4
Engineering	11	13	13	15	9	13	18	16	16	13
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	2	2	2	4	1	2	2	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	3	4	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	3	3	3	4	6	9	8	7	7
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	1	0	0	1	1	4	6	7	9	6
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	2	3	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Health	0	1	1	1	3	2	2	2	4	5
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other health	0	1	1	1	3	2	2	2	4	5

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).