Data
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U. Nevada, Las Vegas
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 94,967 | 101,009 | 105,872 | 99,445 | 83,800 | 66,285 | 62,825 | 42,000 | 39,448 | 35,935 | ||||||||||
Science | 59,813 | 63,448 | 64,877 | 58,041 | 46,519 | 41,055 | 36,359 | 25,599 | 27,643 | 28,672 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 1,556 | 1,015 | 1,077 | 1,662 | 1,782 | 1,772 | 1,705 | 1,156 | 546 | 604 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 5,393 | 6,082 | 6,342 | 4,526 | 4,253 | 4,280 | 2,541 | 4,254 | 8,504 | 11,071 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 209 | 394 | 188 | 35 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 4,854 | 5,400 | 5,458 | 4,418 | 4,235 | 4,280 | 2,536 | 2,021 | 6,187 | 9,069 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 330 | 288 | 696 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2,233 | 2,317 | 2,002 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 31,571 | 32,306 | 34,733 | 31,434 | 22,193 | 17,404 | 15,916 | 9,951 | 7,668 | 7,374 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 84 | 212 | 65 | 32 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 14,714 | 12,969 | 12,763 | 10,027 | 7,898 | 2,597 | 2,508 | 3,352 | 3,350 | 4,659 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 15,740 | 18,321 | 21,019 | 20,056 | 12,751 | 14,550 | 12,125 | 201 | 118 | 84 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 272 | 234 | 208 | 162 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 761 | 570 | 678 | 1,157 | 1,495 | 257 | 1,283 | 6,398 | 4,200 | 2,631 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 2,224 | 2,624 | 2,347 | 1,471 | 1,550 | 154 | 607 | 26 | 10 | 29 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 9,030 | 10,589 | 9,692 | 9,099 | 9,520 | 8,772 | 9,343 | 6,745 | 6,778 | 5,879 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 354 | 160 | 263 | 209 | 27 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 3,601 | 5,482 | 5,140 | 4,910 | 4,491 | 4,048 | 5,153 | 3,706 | 2,831 | 2,497 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 4 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 5,075 | 4,851 | 3,807 | 3,765 | 4,989 | 4,724 | 4,185 | 3,037 | 3,947 | 3,382 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 96 | 478 | 136 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 1,959 | 3,738 | 3,767 | 2,982 | 1,528 | 2,707 | 1,710 | 957 | 1,167 | 725 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 7,012 | 6,536 | 6,306 | 6,344 | 4,149 | 5,966 | 4,537 | 2,510 | 2,967 | 2,990 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 883 | 910 | 951 | 857 | 1,260 | 771 | 617 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 3,624 | 2,663 | 2,127 | 2,144 | 536 | 2,579 | 1,157 | 100 | 118 | 89 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 814 | 838 | 798 | 686 | 613 | 607 | 678 | 48 | 0 | 19 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 766 | 790 | 791 | 770 | 839 | 833 | 1,161 | 247 | 274 | 292 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 925 | 1,335 | 1,639 | 1,887 | 901 | 1,176 | 924 | 2,115 | 2,575 | 2,590 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,068 | 558 | 613 | 523 | 1,544 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 12,665 | 10,667 | 12,729 | 15,736 | 16,192 | 12,018 | 13,046 | 13,965 | 10,586 | 5,627 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 361 | 433 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 10 | 104 | 82 | 83 | 159 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 146 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 4,872 | 4,307 | 4,499 | 5,323 | 4,669 | 2,824 | 3,747 | 4,244 | 4,131 | 2,026 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 1,929 | 1,914 | 1,442 | 2,392 | 2,171 | 2,118 | 2,025 | 1,317 | 1,265 | 1,366 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 4,554 | 3,192 | 4,406 | 4,819 | 6,889 | 6,278 | 6,407 | 6,868 | 4,318 | 1,855 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 3 | 115 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 1,300 | 1,150 | 2,297 | 2,643 | 1,717 | 798 | 867 | 1,536 | 872 | 380 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 22,489 | 26,894 | 28,266 | 25,668 | 21,089 | 13,212 | 13,420 | 2,436 | 1,219 | 1,636 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 5,608 | 6,388 | 6,387 | 5,133 | 3,467 | 3,161 | 3,756 | 1,205 | 534 | 867 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 748 | 907 | 1,067 | 897 | 592 | 328 | 327 | 168 | 82 | 33 | ||||||||||
Education | 6,226 | 4,818 | 4,710 | 4,137 | 6,397 | 3,737 | 3,115 | 731 | 511 | 642 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 3,584 | 3,722 | 3,673 | 3,385 | 2,809 | 2,630 | 2,183 | 63 | 56 | 23 | ||||||||||
Law | 2,648 | 3,143 | 3,411 | 4,247 | 679 | 0 | 49 | 106 | 15 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 244 | 377 | 578 | 527 | 344 | 2,624 | 3,161 | 27 | 5 | 26 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 0 | 3,111 | 3,149 | 2,980 | 2,343 | 4 | 212 | 0 | 7 | 23 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 3,431 | 4,428 | 5,291 | 4,362 | 4,458 | 728 | 617 | 136 | 9 | 22 |
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