Data

Brandeis U.

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2021–12
Field	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All surveyed fields	65	56	70	69	50	62	73	74	90	102
Science and engineering	65	56	70	69	50	62	73	74	90	102
Science	65	56	70	69	50	62	73	74	90	102
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	37	31	48	52	34	32	34	26	43	44
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	1	2
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mathematics and statistics	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	.	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	11	20	29	29	28
Psychology	5	3	2	1	1	2	1	2	3	8
Physical sciences	15	14	14	13	14	17	17	13	14	18
Social sciences	8	4	5	2	1	0	1	0	0	1
Engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Clinical medicine	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

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).