Data

Carnegie Mellon U.
Field | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 386,996 | 359,720 | 331,383 | 328,100 | 319,168 | 242,004 | 251,222 | 271,277 | 255,933 | 242,882 | ||||||||||
Science | 270,176 | 250,860 | 219,017 | 214,364 | 201,687 | 152,775 | 160,588 | 176,741 | 165,460 | 147,503 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 192,119 | 171,110 | 141,298 | 136,928 | 123,569 | 103,328 | 110,795 | 124,962 | 109,069 | 95,836 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 448 | 994 | 1,599 | 1,228 | 561 | 348 | 425 | 628 | 1,497 | 1,932 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 182 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 120 | 56 | 52 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 266 | 988 | 1,599 | 1,228 | 561 | 348 | 404 | 508 | 1,441 | 1,880 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 14,696 | 15,366 | 12,376 | 13,125 | 11,817 | 11,212 | 10,681 | 10,527 | 14,734 | 15,242 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 476 | 774 | 878 | 746 | 477 | 499 | 430 | 709 | 1,900 | 1,813 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 12,566 | 12,103 | 9,426 | 9,979 | 8,949 | 8,790 | 9,040 | 8,508 | 10,760 | 11,804 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 824 | 1,191 | 1,082 | 1,056 | 760 | 833 | 576 | 590 | 499 | 890 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 830 | 1,298 | 990 | 1,344 | 1,631 | 1,090 | 635 | 720 | 1,575 | 735 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 12,000 | 12,385 | 9,308 | 11,321 | 7,447 | 5,698 | 6,269 | 6,142 | 4,581 | 3,132 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 21,580 | 19,508 | 20,096 | 18,921 | 14,883 | 14,162 | 13,000 | 12,816 | 13,608 | 11,946 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 12 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 9,207 | 8,868 | 9,028 | 8,706 | 5,268 | 4,054 | 3,763 | 3,601 | 4,361 | 3,993 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 291 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 11,458 | 9,879 | 9,912 | 9,369 | 7,048 | 6,743 | 6,799 | 7,494 | 7,207 | 6,589 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 624 | 676 | 1,156 | 846 | 2,567 | 3,365 | 2,438 | 1,721 | 1,954 | 1,352 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 11,507 | 10,601 | 9,386 | 9,362 | 9,424 | 7,757 | 8,607 | 10,125 | 10,812 | 9,829 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 12,461 | 14,307 | 16,639 | 13,888 | 13,675 | 6,791 | 6,185 | 6,264 | 5,672 | 6,016 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 762 | 659 | 405 | 652 | 723 | 541 | 495 | 761 | 1,082 | 1,544 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 210 | 449 | 825 | 1,006 | 2,027 | 2,279 | 1,632 | 1,773 | 1,365 | 1,208 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 483 | 828 | 731 | 86 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 103 | 261 | 386 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 11,006 | 12,371 | 14,678 | 12,144 | 10,920 | 3,971 | 4,043 | 3,627 | 2,964 | 2,878 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 5,365 | 6,589 | 8,315 | 9,591 | 20,311 | 3,479 | 4,626 | 5,277 | 5,487 | 3,570 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 102,955 | 95,496 | 99,201 | 98,781 | 102,696 | 89,054 | 89,909 | 94,157 | 89,532 | 93,453 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 1,549 | 1,398 | 3,838 | 4,429 | 2,549 | 2,526 | 2,025 | 2,684 | 1,890 | 964 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 10,273 | 8,568 | 6,933 | 6,872 | 5,947 | 5,338 | 7,595 | 8,378 | 9,722 | 9,549 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 12,813 | 11,314 | 10,638 | 9,414 | 8,515 | 6,254 | 8,411 | 8,826 | 7,856 | 7,922 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 6,651 | 5,844 | 5,448 | 4,334 | 7,958 | 6,637 | 6,620 | 7,658 | 5,950 | 5,617 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 25,294 | 25,735 | 26,268 | 26,345 | 26,673 | 21,013 | 18,009 | 19,167 | 20,554 | 20,932 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 21,286 | 17,247 | 15,463 | 13,272 | 10,704 | 8,149 | 7,622 | 6,815 | 5,736 | 5,507 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 10,117 | 8,957 | 8,784 | 9,696 | 9,843 | 8,222 | 6,386 | 6,512 | 5,803 | 6,102 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 14,972 | 16,433 | 21,829 | 24,419 | 30,507 | 30,915 | 33,241 | 34,117 | 32,021 | 36,860 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 13,865 | 13,364 | 13,165 | 14,955 | 14,785 | 175 | 725 | 379 | 941 | 1,926 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 8,364 | 8,571 | 8,490 | 10,218 | 10,005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 4,430 | 3,916 | 3,858 | 3,895 | 4,286 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 876 | 767 | 794 | 842 | 494 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 104 | 110 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 175 | 725 | 379 | 941 | 1,857 |
NOTES:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey