Data
George Mason U.
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 230,068 | 214,207 | 218,445 | 186,267 | 149,138 | 112,404 | 108,899 | 106,410 | 98,680 | 95,913 | ||||||||||
Science | 145,275 | 143,379 | 143,939 | 127,952 | 109,631 | 87,303 | 81,823 | 79,664 | 77,345 | 73,566 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 25,373 | 24,420 | 23,969 | 31,219 | 18,745 | 12,248 | 9,916 | 12,781 | 11,988 | 11,361 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 14,205 | 12,577 | 10,679 | 11,598 | 11,977 | 12,256 | 11,913 | 9,836 | 9,770 | 9,249 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 6,176 | 5,254 | 3,931 | 4,664 | 5,830 | 6,788 | 6,977 | 4,466 | 3,752 | 2,640 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 6,732 | 6,485 | 4,485 | 5,671 | 5,569 | 5,115 | 4,743 | 5,301 | 5,950 | 6,562 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 972 | 513 | 1,962 | 893 | 104 | 127 | 161 | 69 | 68 | 47 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 325 | 325 | 301 | 370 | 474 | 226 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 30,410 | 47,800 | 33,163 | 16,438 | 17,982 | 18,574 | 18,620 | 18,428 | 15,389 | 14,114 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 352 | 168 | 76 | 69 | 51 | 61 | 12 | 83 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 20,571 | 37,805 | 25,142 | 9,520 | 10,031 | 12,803 | 11,866 | 5,024 | 1,631 | 1,851 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 8,513 | 8,558 | 7,187 | 6,467 | 7,286 | 5,273 | 6,415 | 11,097 | 11,388 | 9,478 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 973 | 1,269 | 724 | 333 | 577 | 429 | 208 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1 | 0 | 34 | 49 | 37 | 8 | 119 | 2,224 | 2,370 | 2,785 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 3,606 | 2,493 | 1,941 | 1,981 | 1,578 | 1,892 | 1,405 | 1,950 | 2,069 | 2,330 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 6,154 | 4,786 | 5,586 | 6,295 | 4,783 | 4,100 | 4,506 | 3,825 | 4,650 | 6,362 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 2,702 | 1,504 | 3,292 | 3,764 | 3,096 | 2,398 | 2,016 | 2,319 | 2,815 | 3,808 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 1,211 | 1,062 | 304 | 621 | 85 | 145 | 416 | 109 | 280 | 205 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 1,416 | 1,317 | 904 | 1,239 | 966 | 659 | 750 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 671 | 646 | 842 | 445 | 487 | 790 | 1,277 | 1,307 | 1,395 | 2,074 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 154 | 257 | 244 | 226 | 149 | 108 | 47 | 90 | 160 | 275 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 3,809 | 3,029 | 3,196 | 3,143 | 3,014 | 2,947 | 4,744 | 7,509 | 6,806 | 6,234 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 61,667 | 48,250 | 65,405 | 57,278 | 51,552 | 35,286 | 30,719 | 25,335 | 26,673 | 23,916 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 251 | 176 | 77 | 76 | 88 | 98 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 44,433 | 32,770 | 52,467 | 46,791 | 40,898 | 25,551 | 19,952 | 15,461 | 16,523 | 12,315 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 1,673 | 2,288 | 2,354 | 1,740 | 1,809 | 1,404 | 2,091 | 3,011 | 2,868 | 4,021 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 3,435 | 3,108 | 2,018 | 1,953 | 2,125 | 2,337 | 2,443 | 1,429 | 1,684 | 1,669 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 11,875 | 9,908 | 8,489 | 6,718 | 6,632 | 5,896 | 6,202 | 5,434 | 5,598 | 5,911 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 51 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 57,196 | 49,826 | 52,423 | 36,101 | 15,785 | 11,185 | 10,826 | 10,181 | 8,148 | 9,283 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 7,892 | 6,615 | 6,016 | 3,333 | 2,597 | 2,331 | 2,971 | 3,635 | 4,399 | 4,611 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 5,780 | 4,814 | 5,129 | 5,410 | 1,748 | 1,608 | 1,114 | 635 | 288 | 336 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 20,900 | 18,265 | 20,341 | 3,162 | 2,454 | 2,525 | 2,233 | 1,663 | 1,433 | 2,129 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 19,862 | 17,285 | 18,591 | 22,672 | 5,552 | 1,403 | 1,221 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 1,295 | 1,948 | 1,705 | 896 | 411 | 166 | 13 | 18 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 955 | 290 | 389 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 601 | 528 | 482 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 512 | 609 | 252 | 524 | 3,023 | 3,152 | 3,179 | 3,629 | 1,500 | 1,725 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 27,597 | 21,002 | 22,083 | 22,214 | 23,722 | 13,916 | 16,250 | 16,565 | 13,187 | 13,064 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 2,603 | 1,079 | 881 | 1,469 | 1,393 | 1,878 | 2,134 | 31 | 59 | 69 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 2,141 | 2,496 | 3,225 | 2,958 | 2,738 | 1,375 | 1,454 | 1,731 | 1,234 | 816 | ||||||||||
Education | 4,654 | 4,500 | 4,940 | 3,987 | 3,047 | 3,694 | 7,518 | 10,836 | 9,499 | 8,573 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 1,999 | 1,215 | 1,084 | 1,259 | 1,823 | 1,655 | 1,420 | 1,659 | 1,432 | 3,195 | ||||||||||
Law | 15,208 | 10,642 | 10,736 | 11,611 | 12,832 | 3,446 | 1,742 | 1,159 | 655 | 198 | ||||||||||
Social work | 69 | 63 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 27 | 107 | 327 | 95 | 166 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 225 | 161 | 126 | 184 | 866 | 882 | 984 | 309 | 44 | 47 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 698 | 846 | 1,091 | 742 | 1,009 | 959 | 891 | 513 | 169 | 0 |
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