Data

Colorado School of Mines
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 81,443 | 78,517 | 70,397 | 60,372 | 59,477 | 60,931 | 58,349 | 59,695 | 59,091 | 58,836 | ||||||||||
Science | 25,402 | 28,069 | 23,115 | 22,784 | 25,351 | 24,736 | 17,916 | 17,894 | 19,063 | 18,145 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 3,894 | 3,748 | 2,782 | 1,429 | 900 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 5,713 | 8,916 | 8,238 | 8,380 | 10,340 | 10,458 | 10,586 | 11,081 | 10,617 | 10,491 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 123 | 95 | 186 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 5,052 | 7,679 | 7,654 | 8,003 | 9,693 | 10,458 | 10,586 | 11,081 | 10,617 | 10,491 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 661 | 1,237 | 461 | 282 | 461 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 3,081 | 2,073 | 2,324 | 2,282 | 3,033 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 310 | 382 | 288 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 2,458 | 1,549 | 1,948 | 2,185 | 2,966 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 257 | 132 | 88 | 68 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 56 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 682 | 583 | 404 | 302 | 569 | 355 | 421 | 299 | 404 | 347 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 10,812 | 11,346 | 8,796 | 8,980 | 9,396 | 12,741 | 6,643 | 6,248 | 7,637 | 6,804 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 3,333 | 2,691 | 2,839 | 3,576 | 3,794 | 3,949 | 2,631 | 2,812 | 3,459 | 2,753 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 1,699 | 697 | 206 | 751 | 1,901 | 5,209 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 5,336 | 5,398 | 4,841 | 3,128 | 3,180 | 3,583 | 4,012 | 3,436 | 4,178 | 4,051 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 397 | 2,560 | 910 | 1,525 | 521 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 1,220 | 1,403 | 571 | 1,411 | 1,113 | 1,182 | 266 | 266 | 405 | 503 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 244 | 220 | 220 | 165 | 154 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 976 | 1,173 | 336 | 1,245 | 956 | 1,182 | 265 | 260 | 404 | 502 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 54,062 | 46,694 | 44,195 | 35,504 | 32,824 | 34,840 | 39,509 | 40,604 | 38,715 | 37,780 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 956 | 369 | 161 | 171 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 76 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 1,213 | 1,627 | 1,375 | 414 | 170 | 7 | 61 | 239 | 564 | 731 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 4,467 | 5,512 | 5,114 | 4,463 | 5,104 | 5,304 | 10,006 | 10,694 | 8,692 | 8,232 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 11,742 | 7,318 | 5,041 | 5,277 | 4,591 | 4,764 | 4,156 | 4,805 | 4,786 | 3,237 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 262 | 476 | 664 | 1,069 | 949 | 675 | 583 | 616 | 453 | 316 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 1,688 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 3,389 | 7,364 | 6,130 | 3,834 | 2,700 | 4,937 | 3,115 | 3,072 | 2,288 | 1,472 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 12,605 | 15,810 | 17,834 | 14,181 | 11,127 | 9,716 | 14,491 | 15,005 | 14,168 | 15,057 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 17,740 | 8,218 | 7,876 | 6,095 | 8,115 | 9,343 | 7,097 | 6,171 | 7,737 | 8,659 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 1,979 | 3,754 | 3,087 | 2,084 | 1,302 | 1,355 | 924 | 1,197 | 1,313 | 2,911 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 66 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 47 | 59 | 8 | 161 | 658 | 1,221 | 871 | 1,137 | 1,188 | 2,790 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 15 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 65 | 128 | 50 | 57 | 124 | 118 | ||||||||||
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 1,851 | 3,651 | 3,072 | 1,919 | 579 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
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