Data

Carnegie Mellon U.
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 925 | 942 | 847 | 764 | 748 | 672 | 736 | 664 | 771 | 635 |
Science and engineering | 925 | 942 | 847 | 764 | 748 | 672 | 736 | 664 | 771 | 635 |
Science | 469 | 437 | 418 | 373 | 340 | 322 | 371 | 327 | 370 | 260 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 84 | 79 | 65 | 55 | 37 | 29 | 25 | 32 | 93 | 52 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 227 | 244 | 231 | 220 | 190 | 197 | 233 | 193 | 136 | 102 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 25 | 20 | 11 | 16 | 24 | 19 | 21 | 25 | 44 | 20 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 15 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
Psychology | 5 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 12 | 24 | 23 |
Physical sciences | 122 | 81 | 102 | 68 | 73 | 49 | 59 | 54 | 57 | 47 |
Social sciences | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Engineering | 456 | 505 | 429 | 391 | 408 | 350 | 365 | 337 | 401 | 375 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 33 | 41 | 42 | 31 | 21 | 20 | 16 | 22 | 18 | 25 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 27 | 46 | 37 | 41 | 32 | 32 | 29 | 29 | 41 | 44 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 37 | 36 | 29 | 40 | 78 | 32 | 31 | 35 | 30 | 36 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 126 | 134 | 124 | 122 | 129 | 111 | 135 | 134 | 174 | 157 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 5 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 201 | 216 | 165 | 126 | 116 | 82 | 85 | 57 | 76 | 45 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | 38 | 40 | 29 | 29 | 37 |
Other engineering | 27 | 26 | 26 | 22 | 27 | 31 | 29 | 31 | 33 | 31 |
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).