Data

U. Virginia

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	207	192	146	177	197	179	175	158	184	191
Science and engineering	160	130	122	148	161	148	117	120	150	142
Science	138	113	103	127	136	124	99	107	125	123
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	84	71	72	85	94	85	76	77	92	94
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1	6	2	1	1	0	0	2	1	4
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	0	0	1	4	2
Mathematics and statistics	2	2	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	7	6	2	8	9	8	3	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	35	24	15	21	26	19	18	25	18	17
Psychology	7	2	5	4	4	4	2	2	9	4
Social sciences	2	2	4	3	2	8	0	0	0	0
Engineering	22	17	19	21	25	24	18	13	25	19
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	8	9	6	9	6	11	9	8	18	7
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	1	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	4	1	2	3	4	5	2	1	0	3
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	2	1	2	2	4	1	0	3	0	0
Mechanical engineering	4	2	3	3	4	4	2	0	3	4
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	3	2	4	3	6	2	5	0	4	3
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Health	47	62	24	29	36	31	58	38	34	49
Clinical medicine	45	60	24	29	36	31	58	38	34	49
Other health	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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).