Data

Hope C.
Field | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 6,910 | 6,355 | 5,211 | 3,822 | 2,745 | 3,179 | 3,225 | 2,811 | 2,932 | 3,016 | ||||||||||
Science | 4,589 | 5,066 | 4,152 | 2,982 | 2,566 | 2,956 | 3,020 | 2,715 | 2,637 | 2,670 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 49 | 74 | 63 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 0 | 56 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 43 | 47 | 59 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 14 | 9 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 43 | 47 | 59 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 14 | 9 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 2,289 | 2,230 | 1,152 | 636 | 477 | 708 | 428 | 403 | 419 | 635 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 2,212 | 2,209 | 1,130 | 629 | 477 | 698 | 428 | 265 | 403 | 635 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 77 | 3 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences nec | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138 | 16 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 56 | 33 | 30 | 68 | 10 | 28 | 29 | 45 | 39 | 10 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 1,652 | 2,122 | 2,032 | 1,315 | 1,843 | 1,859 | 2,500 | 1,748 | 1,996 | 1,884 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 1,009 | 1,338 | 1,238 | 615 | 520 | 826 | 1,196 | 740 | 1,020 | 1,188 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 188 | 534 | 615 | 560 | 614 | 398 | 381 | 267 | 367 | 349 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences nec | 455 | 250 | 179 | 140 | 709 | 635 | 923 | 741 | 609 | 347 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 110 | 45 | 177 | 242 | 236 | 300 | 63 | 46 | 57 | 76 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 390 | 515 | 639 | 673 | 0 | 61 | 0 | 268 | 112 | 0 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 199 | 105 | 71 | 119 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 48 | 19 | 16 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 12 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social sciences nec | 131 | 376 | 549 | 534 | 0 | 61 | 0 | 268 | 100 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 493 | 430 | 277 | 175 | 128 | 55 | 193 | 96 | 295 | 49 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 40 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 493 | 430 | 277 | 175 | 128 | 55 | 193 | 58 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||
Engineering nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 236 | 4 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 1,828 | 859 | 782 | 665 | 51 | 168 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 297 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 644 | 240 | 43 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 811 | 184 | 355 | 205 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 36 | 47 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E nec | 333 | 386 | 384 | 386 | 51 | 168 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 |
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