Data

Carnegie Mellon U.

Postdoctorates in science, engineering, and health, by selected characteristics: 2021–12
All races	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
Science and engineering	229	212	227	224	259	220	193	215	194	241
Science	140	127	140	137	179	117	107	122	127	168
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	15	19	23	20	31	20	19	20	23	30
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	30	21	28	20	48	27	26	26	26	37
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mathematics and statistics	25	10	12	16	20	15	12	14	22	16
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	10	12	9	9	10	0	5	9	8	10
Natural resources and conservation	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	0	1	2	2	5
Physical sciences	31	36	38	31	34	32	28	28	30	50
Psychology	20	18	18	21	19	18	16	21	14	20
Social sciences	9	11	12	20	17	5	0	2	2	0
Engineering	89	85	87	87	80	103	86	93	67	73
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	8	9	7	6	5	6	4	5	2	2
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	12	10	13	11	5	6	15	9	15	12
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	10	8	4	3	6	7	6	6	2	3
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	15	18	17	19	23	28	20	29	17	18
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	0
Mechanical engineering	40	34	40	43	35	50	40	38	29	32
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	2	6	6	5	5	4	1	4	2	6
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).