Data

Boston C.
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 65,156 | 63,063 | 61,956 | 57,030 | 58,088 | 54,469 | 47,761 | 49,724 | 50,702 | 51,442 | ||||||||||
Science | 45,676 | 43,168 | 44,768 | 42,801 | 43,825 | 40,724 | 26,123 | 28,326 | 30,700 | 30,436 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 663 | 599 | 559 | 521 | 387 | 343 | 142 | 46 | 223 | 243 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 7,414 | 5,836 | 5,130 | 5,533 | 6,058 | 6,106 | 6,161 | 6,817 | 9,009 | 8,938 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 6,176 | 4,786 | 4,498 | 4,682 | 5,226 | 5,041 | 5,614 | 6,219 | 7,959 | 8,103 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,238 | 1,050 | 632 | 851 | 832 | 1,065 | 547 | 598 | 1,050 | 835 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 9,313 | 9,824 | 13,514 | 12,494 | 13,811 | 10,996 | 7,091 | 8,321 | 9,509 | 8,251 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 7,705 | 8,248 | 12,312 | 11,319 | 12,967 | 9,969 | 6,659 | 7,751 | 8,948 | 7,589 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 1,608 | 1,576 | 1,202 | 1,175 | 844 | 1,027 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 432 | 570 | 561 | 662 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,079 | 1,289 | 1,015 | 1,113 | 1,230 | 1,084 | 929 | 886 | 597 | 370 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 11,863 | 9,306 | 9,572 | 8,313 | 8,233 | 7,978 | 8,297 | 9,547 | 9,070 | 9,991 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 8,543 | 7,492 | 7,188 | 6,530 | 6,137 | 5,864 | 5,384 | 6,484 | 5,031 | 5,155 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 3,320 | 1,814 | 2,384 | 1,783 | 2,096 | 2,114 | 2,913 | 2,768 | 3,699 | 4,836 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 295 | 340 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 4,588 | 4,452 | 3,837 | 3,549 | 3,156 | 3,300 | 2,873 | 2,286 | 1,906 | 1,948 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 10,756 | 11,862 | 11,141 | 11,278 | 10,950 | 10,917 | 630 | 423 | 386 | 695 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 525 | 821 | 702 | 572 | 616 | 545 | 397 | 215 | 186 | 195 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 164 | 172 | 150 | 49 | 68 | 171 | 52 | 29 | 24 | 15 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 4,355 | 4,538 | 3,989 | 4,814 | 4,604 | 4,910 | 160 | 179 | 176 | 485 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 5,712 | 6,331 | 6,300 | 5,843 | 5,662 | 5,291 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 50 | 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 not elsewhere classified | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 19,430 | 19,895 | 17,188 | 14,229 | 14,263 | 13,745 | 21,638 | 21,398 | 20,002 | 21,006 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 89 | 36 | 74 | 51 | 26 | 137 | 4,198 | 4,043 | 4,870 | 7,031 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 10 | 58 | 61 | 39 | 28 | 27 | 12 | 21 | 0 | 84 | ||||||||||
Education | 11,664 | 11,563 | 11,045 | 10,307 | 11,512 | 10,383 | 14,731 | 14,122 | 12,313 | 11,703 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 564 | 806 | 399 | 460 | 559 | 513 | 525 | 450 | 672 | 300 | ||||||||||
Law | 586 | 543 | 551 | 73 | 96 | 89 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||||
Social work | 5,977 | 6,369 | 4,419 | 2,366 | 1,104 | 1,681 | 1,220 | 1,826 | 1,966 | 1,681 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 66 | 50 | 85 | 81 | 55 | 74 | 47 | 13 | 0 | 15 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 474 | 470 | 554 | 852 | 883 | 841 | 892 | 923 | 181 | 181 |
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