Data
Stanford U.
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 1,143 | 1,065 | 1,195 | 1,132 | 1,012 | 987 | 1,002 | 1,015 | 942 | 916 |
Science and engineering | 718 | 679 | 749 | 694 | 547 | 551 | 571 | 607 | 545 | 535 |
Science | 559 | 512 | 577 | 580 | 437 | 439 | 431 | 455 | 425 | 423 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 381 | 335 | 371 | 334 | 316 | 317 | 304 | 311 | 298 | 285 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 17 | 18 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 12 | 21 | 14 | 12 | 24 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 13 | 16 | 28 | 27 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 20 | 17 |
Mathematics and statistics | 8 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 15 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 6 | 6 | 9 | 2 |
Psychology | 12 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 6 |
Physical sciences | 124 | 120 | 133 | 169 | 68 | 65 | 63 | 81 | 56 | 70 |
Social sciences | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
Engineering | 159 | 167 | 172 | 114 | 110 | 112 | 140 | 152 | 120 | 112 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 4 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 28 | 22 | 28 | 25 | 36 | 34 | 22 | 27 | 24 | 28 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 41 | 35 | 25 | 23 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 15 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 28 | 37 | 40 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 6 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 21 | 29 | 34 | 32 | 26 | 30 | 34 | 20 | 20 | 19 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Mechanical engineering | 17 | 20 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 35 | 19 | 20 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 7 |
Other engineering | 20 | 19 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 25 | 22 | 8 |
Health | 425 | 386 | 446 | 438 | 465 | 436 | 431 | 408 | 397 | 381 |
Clinical medicine | 420 | 381 | 442 | 433 | 459 | 431 | 424 | 401 | 390 | 374 |
Other health | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
NOTES:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).