Data
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Mercer U.
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 50,222 | 51,989 | 49,116 | 44,128 | 34,197 | 29,447 | 31,735 | 32,838 | 30,209 | 28,892 | ||||||||||
Science | 11,621 | 11,456 | 11,505 | 11,413 | 10,566 | 5,424 | 5,604 | 6,307 | 5,999 | 6,139 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 149 | 140 | 136 | 115 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 8,473 | 8,627 | 8,624 | 8,298 | 8,058 | 5,172 | 5,440 | 5,685 | 5,355 | 5,279 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 253 | 250 | 235 | 239 | 233 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 12 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 5,466 | 5,592 | 5,307 | 5,294 | 5,112 | 3,651 | 3,843 | 4,022 | 3,761 | 4,200 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 2,754 | 2,785 | 3,082 | 2,765 | 2,713 | 1,521 | 1,592 | 1,661 | 1,590 | 1,067 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 221 | 219 | 224 | 194 | 183 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 1,925 | 1,878 | 2,038 | 2,189 | 1,694 | 20 | 10 | 19 | 28 | 156 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 1,830 | 1,786 | 1,951 | 2,106 | 1,613 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 28 | 156 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 95 | 92 | 87 | 83 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 300 | 270 | 258 | 253 | 264 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 89 | 105 | 81 | 57 | 73 | 18 | 14 | 24 | 32 | 96 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 36 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 53 | 51 | 47 | 40 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 34 | 17 | 30 | 14 | 14 | 24 | 32 | 12 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 464 | 217 | 144 | 307 | 199 | 214 | 140 | 579 | 583 | 608 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 38,452 | 40,439 | 37,450 | 32,624 | 23,532 | 23,942 | 26,049 | 26,464 | 24,163 | 22,737 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 14,803 | 15,276 | 12,953 | 10,878 | 8,810 | 6,879 | 10,767 | 10,829 | 9,586 | 9,242 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 9 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 1,608 | 2,152 | 404 | 539 | 1,803 | 1,303 | 1,210 | 611 | 1,184 | 2,355 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 11,183 | 12,062 | 14,423 | 12,411 | 6,791 | 10,328 | 9,378 | 10,333 | 10,236 | 8,230 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 10,282 | 10,341 | 9,143 | 8,021 | 5,606 | 5,421 | 4,685 | 4,685 | 2,988 | 2,709 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 567 | 600 | 524 | 763 | 519 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 169 | 201 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 149 | 94 | 161 | 91 | 99 | 81 | 82 | 67 | 47 | 16 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 61 | 22 | 47 | 88 | 90 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 82 | 70 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 82 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 82 | 67 | 47 | 16 |
NOTES:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey