Data
Cornell U.
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 1,175 | 1,171 | 1,096 | 946 | 915 | 949 | 819 | 847 | 830 | 890 |
Science and engineering | 1,175 | 1,171 | 1,096 | 946 | 915 | 938 | 800 | 829 | 812 | 877 |
Science | 813 | 764 | 716 | 616 | 598 | 664 | 510 | 530 | 525 | 556 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 81 | 63 | 72 | 35 | 40 | 28 | 47 | 53 | 29 | 39 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 388 | 355 | 331 | 320 | 301 | 330 | 210 | 202 | 189 | 195 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
Computer and information sciences | 97 | 86 | 87 | 66 | 76 | 64 | 47 | 53 | 68 | 59 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 14 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 23 | 19 | 21 |
Mathematics and statistics | 23 | 32 | 20 | 22 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 17 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Natural resources and conservation | 10 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 9 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 20 | 19 | 19 | 13 |
Psychology | 6 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
Physical sciences | 165 | 172 | 140 | 131 | 124 | 178 | 121 | 133 | 143 | 143 |
Social sciences | 27 | 25 | 35 | 21 | 18 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 29 | 52 |
Engineering | 362 | 407 | 380 | 330 | 317 | 274 | 290 | 299 | 287 | 321 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 5 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 58 | 74 | 50 | 58 | 48 | 47 | 42 | 41 | 47 | 56 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 36 | 44 | 40 | 41 | 55 | 34 | 36 | 42 | 33 | 33 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 28 | 30 | 30 | 17 | 19 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 18 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 65 | 66 | 72 | 60 | 49 | 44 | 58 | 60 | 57 | 69 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 21 | 25 | 14 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 9 |
Mechanical engineering | 43 | 47 | 49 | 49 | 41 | 45 | 44 | 46 | 39 | 36 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 40 | 42 | 35 | 21 | 20 | 31 | 22 | 36 | 34 | 38 |
Other engineering | 66 | 71 | 79 | 63 | 58 | 44 | 56 | 45 | 52 | 58 |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 13 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 11 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 13 |
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).