Data

Georgetown U.

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2021–12
Field	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All surveyed fields	88	80	83	67	57	51	56	79	63	78
Science and engineering	86	80	79	63	55	49	52	76	55	49
Science	86	80	79	63	55	49	52	76	55	49
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	36	37	42	35	34	25	31	48	29	9
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1	4	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mathematics and statistics	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	5	6	10	7	9
Psychology	2	0	1	2	1	2	1	2	1	4
Physical sciences	45	35	30	24	18	16	14	12	13	23
Social sciences	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	4	5	4
Engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Health	2	0	4	4	2	2	4	3	8	29
Clinical medicine	2	0	4	4	2	2	4	3	8	28
Other health	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

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).