Data

U. South Carolina, Upstate

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	64	85	75	71	67	68	59	71	87	95
Science and engineering	51	62	67	62	54	52	45	61	74	79
Science	30	29	38	34	32	30	25	37	36	45
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	8	10	21	18	18	19	14	20	19	26
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	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	0	0	1	1	3	3	3
Mathematics and statistics	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	2	1	1
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	1	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	13	14	11	10	9	9	8	7	7	9
Psychology	5	4	3	5	4	1	2	5	6	6
Social sciences	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	21	33	29	28	22	22	20	24	38	34
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	2	6	2	4	1	6	8	6	12	5
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	4	5	4	3	1	2	1	1	3	2
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	1	6	5	4	5	1	1	2	1	1
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	14	16	18	17	15	13	10	15	22	25
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	1
Health	13	23	8	9	13	16	14	10	13	16
Clinical medicine	2	14	5	3	7	7	6	6	5	5
Other health	11	9	3	6	6	9	8	4	8	11

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).