Data

U. Utah

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	143	137	115	121	184	173	67	217	278	282
Science and engineering	126	116	98	104	138	137	59	158	217	210
Science	105	98	84	80	109	101	48	138	197	189
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	48	47	43	45	51	47	33	60	106	98
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	6	6
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	8	10	11	7	8	9	3	4	4	4
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	29	29	27
Natural resources and conservation	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
Physical sciences	38	30	23	18	40	35	4	31	31	31
Psychology	4	3	3	2	2	4	3	4	4	3
Social sciences	3	8	4	8	8	6	2	2	2	2
Engineering	21	18	14	24	29	36	11	20	20	21
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	6	3	2	3	2	4	3	8	8	4
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	2	5	1	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	3	4	2	4	10	13	3	1	1	3
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	6	5	5	11	10	10	2	2	2	2
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	6	6	5	6	5	4	1	8	8	11
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	17	21	17	17	46	36	8	59	61	72
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	43	45	55
Other health	17	21	17	17	46	36	7	16	16	17

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).