Data

Arizona State U.

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2023–14
Field	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
All surveyed fields	94	99	98	98	98	126	137	100	92	106
Science and engineering	93	96	94	94	95	122	134	97	89	101
Science	64	68	74	67	67	88	97	69	70	87
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	3
Biological and biomedical sciences	32	37	43	25	21	32	40	29	23	28
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	2	1	3	1	2	2	1	1	11	10
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	10	8	8	12	13	16	10	12	12	12
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	1	0	2	2	5	4	3	2
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	0	0	0	2	0	6	0	0	7
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	6	5	0	0	0
Physical sciences	11	13	7	17	17	20	19	11	11	17
Psychology	4	7	6	5	5	3	4	3	2	1
Social sciences	5	2	6	7	5	7	7	4	5	5
Engineering	29	28	20	27	28	34	37	28	19	14
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	8	5	3	2	2	3	4	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	4	2	3	5	3	2	1	2	2
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	7	4	3	4	2	6	5	4	1	1
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	6	10	7	12	8	14	15	10	7	5
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	7	3	3	6	8	6	5	2	3	2
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
Other engineering	1	2	1	0	3	2	6	11	3	1
Health	1	3	4	4	3	4	3	3	3	5
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other health	1	3	4	4	3	4	3	3	3	5

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).