Data
California Institute of Technology
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 523 | 556 | 510 | 554 | 519 | 541 | 510 | 522 | 540 | 514 |
Science and engineering | 523 | 556 | 510 | 554 | 519 | 541 | 510 | 522 | 540 | 514 |
Science | 307 | 341 | 304 | 326 | 315 | 314 | 291 | 292 | 302 | 302 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 78 | 99 | 80 | 102 | 82 | 76 | 56 | 51 | 62 | 63 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 35 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 32 | 33 | 46 | 51 | 50 | 45 |
Mathematics and statistics | 3 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 12 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 14 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 177 | 185 | 176 | 173 | 180 | 187 | 163 | 171 | 167 | 172 |
Social sciences | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Engineering | 216 | 215 | 206 | 228 | 204 | 227 | 219 | 230 | 238 | 212 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 30 | 29 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 28 | 26 | 35 | 30 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 50 | 43 | 39 | 47 | 28 | 37 | 29 | 27 | 1 | 0 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 17 | 14 | 16 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 26 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 16 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 16 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 13 | 27 | 16 | 19 | 16 | 23 | 25 | 36 | 36 | 26 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 7 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 7 | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 32 | 24 | 37 | 33 | 28 | 29 | 24 | 30 | 28 | 29 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 22 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 20 | 35 | 33 | 32 | 30 | 29 |
Other engineering | 29 | 38 | 32 | 40 | 44 | 38 | 50 | 43 | 66 | 56 |
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).