Data

U. Rochester

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	108	121	127	141	127	116	113	147	159	136
Science and engineering	86	94	100	101	92	77	79	111	116	95
Science	72	83	89	86	78	68	74	104	106	85
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	43	62	60	62	50	47	49	56	57	43
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	1	2	0
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	0
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	17	12	21	21	25	17	20	28	29	26
Psychology	7	6	6	3	2	3	5	5	10	7
Social sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	14	11	11	15	14	9	5	7	10	10
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	6	6	5	6	10	7	3	2	3	6
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	3	1	1	3	1	1	1	2	3	4
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	5	4	5	6	3	1	1	2	4	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	22	27	27	40	35	39	34	36	43	41
Clinical medicine	20	26	27	38	31	33	30	30	36	34
Other health	2	1	0	2	4	6	4	6	7	7

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).