Data
Iowa State U.
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 471 | 438 | 418 | 448 | 474 | 478 | 445 | 624 | 618 | 627 |
Science and engineering | 470 | 437 | 415 | 441 | 462 | 470 | 440 | 620 | 613 | 619 |
Science | 311 | 302 | 284 | 279 | 250 | 268 | 252 | 351 | 352 | 378 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 45 | 27 | 25 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 44 | 48 | 34 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 102 | 101 | 116 | 105 | 96 | 100 | 107 | 121 | 125 | 156 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 1 | 2 | . |
Computer and information sciences | 23 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 19 | 27 | 25 | 39 | 31 | 22 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 11 | 12 | 14 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 19 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 16 |
Mathematics and statistics | 17 | 21 | 27 | 25 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 26 | 23 | 22 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 8 |
Natural resources and conservation | 21 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 13 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
Physical sciences | 76 | 99 | 76 | 66 | 69 | 75 | 64 | 75 | 73 | 90 |
Social sciences | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 14 |
Engineering | 159 | 135 | 131 | 162 | 212 | 202 | 188 | 269 | 261 | 241 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 14 | 11 | 12 | 22 | 22 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 11 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 19 | 24 | 17 | 13 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 23 | 20 | 22 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 9 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 46 | 41 | 40 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 44 | 46 | 46 | 57 | 75 | 70 | 58 | 84 | 75 | 76 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
Mechanical engineering | 28 | 18 | 24 | 29 | 42 | 39 | 36 | 43 | 51 | 44 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 22 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 23 | 25 | 27 | 27 |
Other engineering | 12 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 21 | 22 | 29 | 25 | 11 |
Health | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
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).