Data
Whitman C.
| Field | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All R&D fields | 1,568 | 1,270 | 1,034 | 865 | 1,083 | 1,041 | 818 | 546 | 653 | 575 | ||||||||||
| Science | 1,392 | 1,101 | 919 | 865 | 1,039 | 842 | 648 | 546 | 595 | 427 | ||||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 17 | 22 | 47 | 0 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 221 | 121 | 82 | 23 | 52 | 42 | 95 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Geological and earth sciences | 221 | 121 | 0 | 23 | 52 | 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 nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Life sciences | 311 | 325 | 450 | 427 | 464 | 307 | 129 | 282 | 364 | 293 | ||||||||||
| Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 263 | 284 | 0 | 427 | 464 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 48 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Life sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences | 656 | 486 | 222 | 356 | 460 | 421 | 374 | 139 | 123 | 112 | ||||||||||
| Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Chemistry | 623 | 440 | 0 | 246 | 392 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physics | 33 | 46 | 0 | 104 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Physical sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Psychology | 93 | 77 | 27 | 25 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 56 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences | 94 | 70 | 82 | 34 | 39 | 56 | 29 | 43 | 11 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Anthropology | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Economics | 30 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Political science and government | 31 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Sociology, demography, and population studies | 33 | 46 | 0 | 34 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Social sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 41 | 15 | ||||||||||
| Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 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 | 176 | 169 | 115 | 0 | 44 | 199 | 170 | 0 | 58 | 148 | ||||||||||
| Business management and business administration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Education | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Humanities | 156 | 123 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 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 | 20 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Non-S&E nec | 0 | 25 | 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.
- 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

