Data
Boston U.
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All part-time students | 1,693 | 1,553 | 1,575 | 1,693 | 2,997 | 3,077 | 1,608 | 1,377 | 1,342 | 1,350 |
Male | 753 | 677 | 724 | 895 | 1,659 | 1,707 | 912 | 772 | 747 | 757 |
Female | 940 | 876 | 851 | 798 | 1,338 | 1,370 | 696 | 605 | 595 | 593 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 1,268 | 1,299 | 1,257 | 1,277 | 2,095 | 2,221 | 1,342 | 1,165 | 1,209 | 1,209 |
Hispanic or Latino | 155 | 135 | 100 | 102 | 185 | 195 | 113 | 93 | 82 | 75 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 990 | 1,013 | 999 | 977 | 1,641 | 1,735 | 1,090 | 950 | 987 | 965 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Asian | 205 | 199 | 202 | 192 | 257 | 263 | 196 | 156 | 170 | 177 |
Black or African American | 102 | 108 | 113 | 88 | 124 | 133 | 117 | 86 | 88 | 72 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
White | 644 | 673 | 650 | 665 | 1,196 | 1,273 | 741 | 681 | 698 | 698 |
More than one race | 38 | 32 | 34 | 28 | 56 | 58 | 32 | 23 | 26 | 18 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 123 | 151 | 158 | 198 | 269 | 291 | 139 | 122 | 140 | 169 |
Temporary visa holders | 425 | 254 | 318 | 416 | 902 | 856 | 266 | 212 | 133 | 141 |
Science and engineering | 1,378 | 1,287 | 1,347 | 1,467 | 2,742 | 2,809 | 1,298 | 1,119 | 1,082 | 1,079 |
Science | 1,183 | 1,150 | 1,148 | 1,290 | 2,203 | 2,320 | 1,131 | 996 | 965 | 995 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 338 | 315 | 305 | 264 | 378 | 335 | 143 | 172 | 190 | 223 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
Computer and information sciences | 524 | 507 | 535 | 706 | 921 | 976 | 865 | 714 | 676 | 635 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 19 | 0 | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 42 | 41 | 29 | 58 | 89 | 71 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 4 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 17 | 14 | 19 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 |
Physical sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 179 | 184 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Psychology | 32 | 26 | 32 | 21 | 84 | 93 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 15 |
Social sciences | 238 | 252 | 233 | 227 | 508 | 633 | 85 | 69 | 60 | 91 |
Engineering | 195 | 137 | 199 | 177 | 539 | 489 | 167 | 123 | 117 | 84 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 14 | 18 | 16 | 9 | 141 | 138 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 73 | 41 | 70 | 69 | 185 | 174 | 92 | 67 | 58 | 25 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 29 | 14 | 22 | 16 | 55 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 48 | 35 | 47 | 41 | 100 | 78 | 42 | 27 | 21 | 16 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 14 | 11 | 14 | 21 | 43 | 44 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 |
Other engineering | 17 | 18 | 30 | 21 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 23 | 30 |
Health | 315 | 266 | 228 | 226 | 255 | 268 | 310 | 258 | 260 | 271 |
Clinical medicine | 285 | 255 | 211 | 214 | 236 | 232 | 310 | 258 | 254 | 263 |
Other health | 30 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 19 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 |
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).