Data
Trinity U.
| Field | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All R&D fields | 5,838 | 5,296 | 3,657 | 2,905 | 3,472 | 3,736 | 3,244 | 3,274 | 2,383 | 2,633 | ||||||||||
| Science | 4,912 | 4,359 | 3,007 | 2,551 | 2,754 | 3,082 | 2,529 | 2,604 | 1,980 | 2,182 | ||||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 168 | 84 | 72 | 64 | 50 | 29 | 60 | 535 | 72 | 22 | ||||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 333 | 257 | 194 | 96 | 56 | 113 | 46 | 125 | 245 | 183 | ||||||||||
| Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Geological and earth sciences | 333 | 257 | 194 | 96 | 56 | 113 | 46 | 125 | 245 | 183 | ||||||||||
| Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Life sciences | 1,449 | 934 | 756 | 461 | 505 | 452 | 448 | 478 | 477 | 328 | ||||||||||
| Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 1,449 | 927 | 735 | 455 | 499 | 452 | 429 | 469 | 477 | 328 | ||||||||||
| Health sciences | 0 | 7 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Life sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 80 | 89 | 50 | 41 | 84 | 53 | 59 | 100 | 89 | 227 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences | 1,953 | 2,025 | 1,272 | 1,165 | 1,230 | 1,369 | 1,316 | 905 | 792 | 1,146 | ||||||||||
| Astronomy and astrophysics | 12 | 95 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Chemistry | 1,648 | 1,610 | 1,126 | 1,026 | 1,012 | 1,175 | 1,237 | 808 | 674 | 961 | ||||||||||
| Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physics | 293 | 320 | 143 | 139 | 218 | 194 | 79 | 97 | 80 | 185 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Psychology | 432 | 648 | 344 | 313 | 328 | 348 | 198 | 166 | 166 | 190 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences | 446 | 322 | 319 | 411 | 501 | 718 | 402 | 295 | 139 | 86 | ||||||||||
| Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Economics | 229 | 179 | 204 | 316 | 408 | 561 | 372 | 254 | 64 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Political science and government | 12 | 25 | 56 | 29 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 29 | 46 | ||||||||||
| Sociology, demography, and population studies | 205 | 110 | 0 | 66 | 81 | 128 | 25 | 21 | 46 | 40 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences nec | 0 | 8 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Sciences nec | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Engineering | 319 | 137 | 69 | 47 | 80 | 103 | 108 | 108 | 116 | 43 | ||||||||||
| Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Chemical engineering | 319 | 137 | 69 | 47 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 22 | 14 | ||||||||||
| Civil engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 25 | ||||||||||
| Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 93 | 106 | 33 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Engineering nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Non-S&E | 607 | 800 | 581 | 307 | 638 | 551 | 607 | 562 | 287 | 408 | ||||||||||
| Business management and business administration | 53 | 34 | 36 | 37 | 79 | 63 | 56 | 0 | 3 | 62 | ||||||||||
| Communication and communications technologies | 50 | 85 | 32 | 13 | 52 | 64 | 48 | 1 | 35 | 87 | ||||||||||
| Education | 23 | 25 | 10 | 15 | 28 | 49 | 40 | 18 | 25 | 37 | ||||||||||
| Humanities | 450 | 639 | 237 | 161 | 403 | 245 | 322 | 440 | 202 | 222 | ||||||||||
| 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 | 31 | 17 | 238 | 76 | 42 | 3 | 44 | 31 | 15 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Non-S&E nec | 0 | 0 | 28 | 5 | 34 | 127 | 97 | 72 | 7 | 0 | ||||||||||
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

