Data
Western Carolina U.
| Field | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All R&D fields | 2,543 | 2,783 | 2,847 | 2,696 | 2,633 | 1,507 | 1,474 | 1,305 | 1,145 | 1,048 | ||||||||||
| Science | 1,616 | 1,915 | 2,136 | 1,981 | 2,153 | 1,294 | 1,323 | 1,289 | 1,129 | 1,006 | ||||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 484 | 313 | 314 | 297 | 494 | 489 | 637 | 503 | 358 | 197 | ||||||||||
| Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Geological and earth sciences | 98 | 39 | 30 | 39 | 159 | 34 | 40 | 42 | 37 | 81 | ||||||||||
| Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 386 | 274 | 284 | 258 | 335 | 455 | 597 | 461 | 321 | 116 | ||||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Life sciences | 822 | 1,326 | 1,484 | 1,128 | 1,095 | 550 | 502 | 600 | 746 | 695 | ||||||||||
| Agricultural sciences | 116 | 175 | 136 | 75 | 116 | 86 | 65 | 101 | 128 | 82 | ||||||||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 345 | 332 | 421 | 279 | 358 | 296 | 278 | 488 | 618 | 613 | ||||||||||
| Health sciences | 324 | 796 | 927 | 774 | 621 | 168 | 158 | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 37 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Life sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 72 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences | 56 | 9 | 45 | 253 | 342 | 196 | 157 | 174 | 0 | 69 | ||||||||||
| Astronomy and astrophysics | 33 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Chemistry | 23 | 0 | 45 | 253 | 342 | 196 | 157 | 174 | 0 | 69 | ||||||||||
| Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences | 182 | 267 | 290 | 292 | 215 | 52 | 20 | 4 | 17 | 36 | ||||||||||
| Anthropology | 164 | 236 | 289 | 252 | 56 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Political science and government | 2 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Sociology, demography, and population studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 17 | 36 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences nec | 16 | 5 | 1 | 40 | 156 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Engineering | 395 | 363 | 305 | 371 | 365 | 136 | 108 | 16 | 16 | 42 | ||||||||||
| Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 63 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Civil engineering | 330 | 207 | 16 | 62 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 24 | ||||||||||
| Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 18 | ||||||||||
| Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Engineering nec | 2 | 121 | 289 | 309 | 280 | 135 | 108 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Non-S&E | 532 | 505 | 406 | 344 | 115 | 77 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Business management and business administration | 0 | 44 | 35 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Education | 84 | 108 | 0 | 16 | 21 | 47 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Humanities | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Social work | 379 | 276 | 76 | 88 | 81 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Visual and performing arts | 0 | 10 | 36 | 26 | 13 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Non-S&E nec | 65 | 65 | 259 | 100 | 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.
- 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

