Data

Kansas State U.

Postdoctorates in science, engineering, and health, by selected characteristics: 2021–12
All races	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
Science and engineering	110	111	236	118	171	87	130	132	123	105
Science	103	107	220	117	153	84	126	122	109	95
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	32	70	44	19	30	21	21	25	20	10
Biological and biomedical sciences	45	24	132	63	91	37	67	63	58	59
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	0
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	1	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	2	0	0	2	1	1	1	1	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	1	0	0	0	0	6	6	8	7	6
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	0	0	.	.	.	1	1	0	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	0	0	6	3	0	0	1	1	1	2
Physical sciences	18	12	38	28	31	15	26	18	18	18
Social sciences	1	0	0	2	0	2	1	4	3	0
Engineering	7	4	16	1	18	3	4	10	14	10
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	2	1
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	4	0	1	0	0	1	2	2
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	3	2	2	0	4	0	1	2	2	1
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0
Mechanical engineering	0	2	6	0	4	1	0	0	1	1
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	0	0	2	1	7	2	1	5	6	5
Health	0	0	10	15	26	15	16	10	13	7
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other health	.	.	10	15	26	15	16	10	13	7

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).