Data

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 949,076 | 987,968 | 1,009,466 | 964,336 | 952,017 | 946,159 | 930,719 | 908,017 | 900,524 | 824,130 | ||||||||||
Science | 513,770 | 506,417 | 489,164 | 461,581 | 446,511 | 452,188 | 442,515 | 411,800 | 413,577 | 405,168 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 116,877 | 111,779 | 96,682 | 85,483 | 78,623 | 74,755 | 76,428 | 76,633 | 68,138 | 58,932 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 30,961 | 32,718 | 34,015 | 41,824 | 47,798 | 54,193 | 59,351 | 56,763 | 51,264 | 42,606 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 7,956 | 8,892 | 8,787 | 9,057 | 9,890 | 10,720 | 10,441 | 10,158 | 10,734 | 8,554 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 11,360 | 11,897 | 13,777 | 16,981 | 16,331 | 13,897 | 18,371 | 20,072 | 18,609 | 13,538 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 9,521 | 8,738 | 8,299 | 9,148 | 9,012 | 9,891 | 8,260 | 7,182 | 8,061 | 7,383 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 2,124 | 3,191 | 3,152 | 6,638 | 12,565 | 19,685 | 22,279 | 19,351 | 13,860 | 13,131 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 118,283 | 126,648 | 143,017 | 138,075 | 129,735 | 124,982 | 129,161 | 117,231 | 118,946 | 119,712 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 79 | 861 | 2,114 | 1,622 | 581 | 0 | 3 | 88 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 60,795 | 67,446 | 82,262 | 75,156 | 68,109 | 73,941 | 80,160 | 74,537 | 79,364 | 82,415 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 21,012 | 20,529 | 19,499 | 22,812 | 24,566 | 18,016 | 21,364 | 21,303 | 25,006 | 19,977 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 378 | 509 | 891 | 1,748 | 237 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 36,019 | 37,303 | 38,251 | 36,737 | 36,242 | 33,025 | 27,634 | 21,303 | 14,576 | 17,320 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 9,015 | 10,434 | 11,774 | 9,888 | 7,671 | 9,399 | 9,130 | 8,679 | 9,329 | 8,883 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 170,494 | 153,044 | 136,601 | 124,145 | 127,856 | 137,188 | 119,516 | 107,134 | 107,399 | 114,500 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 33,094 | 35,202 | 31,811 | 28,851 | 34,543 | 44,677 | 34,508 | 28,328 | 25,793 | 23,447 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 37,408 | 32,375 | 31,179 | 31,921 | 26,165 | 26,701 | 24,143 | 17,699 | 19,297 | 24,698 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 6,657 | 6,864 | 6,273 | 3,613 | 988 | 215 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 57,207 | 48,695 | 43,880 | 44,041 | 55,226 | 56,874 | 51,854 | 52,226 | 55,135 | 59,670 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 36,128 | 29,908 | 23,458 | 15,719 | 10,934 | 8,721 | 9,011 | 8,881 | 7,174 | 6,685 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 478 | 484 | 517 | 1,985 | 1,909 | 2,612 | 1,307 | 1,001 | 1,672 | 2,141 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 47,850 | 51,477 | 46,532 | 38,166 | 32,081 | 26,903 | 24,159 | 21,542 | 16,580 | 15,227 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 32,590 | 30,800 | 25,360 | 22,365 | 18,878 | 18,191 | 14,939 | 11,813 | 7,827 | 7,523 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 2,958 | 3,185 | 3,558 | 3,472 | 3,514 | 2,253 | 2,466 | 3,632 | 3,879 | 5,309 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 25 | 38 | 421 | 41 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 245 | 13 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 12,277 | 17,454 | 17,193 | 12,288 | 9,653 | 6,459 | 6,754 | 6,074 | 4,629 | 2,382 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 19,812 | 19,833 | 20,026 | 22,015 | 20,838 | 22,156 | 23,463 | 22,817 | 40,249 | 43,167 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 382,569 | 419,636 | 450,915 | 431,927 | 432,453 | 427,923 | 416,402 | 403,208 | 420,307 | 365,199 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 32,321 | 29,160 | 27,688 | 37,168 | 39,102 | 27,231 | 25,605 | 27,551 | 31,101 | 25,061 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 100,911 | 104,805 | 118,310 | 114,600 | 100,444 | 96,990 | 75,316 | 64,467 | 51,835 | 40,452 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 45,797 | 47,150 | 46,670 | 37,212 | 37,056 | 29,379 | 33,225 | 32,844 | 34,531 | 36,287 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 16,423 | 14,924 | 18,280 | 20,039 | 20,087 | 24,955 | 27,703 | 25,662 | 29,778 | 18,976 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 42,546 | 55,447 | 52,774 | 40,413 | 41,913 | 44,965 | 55,603 | 65,962 | 76,568 | 65,726 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 79 | 117 | 214 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 46,417 | 53,616 | 55,277 | 56,652 | 57,311 | 54,433 | 60,088 | 57,405 | 67,368 | 55,392 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 30,592 | 42,431 | 41,282 | 29,502 | 27,932 | 31,696 | 30,188 | 34,249 | 46,340 | 34,107 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 67,483 | 71,986 | 90,420 | 96,233 | 108,608 | 118,274 | 108,674 | 95,068 | 82,786 | 89,198 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 52,737 | 61,915 | 69,387 | 70,828 | 73,053 | 66,048 | 71,802 | 93,009 | 66,640 | 53,763 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 2,324 | 7 | 45,246 | 42,052 | 50,028 | 40,840 | 36,130 | 33,069 | 15,047 | 13,134 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 129 | 41 | 44 | 26 | 71 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 35,776 | 46,996 | 10,504 | 14,247 | 15,173 | 12,263 | 9,469 | 13,044 | 10,606 | 18,701 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 3,823 | 5,859 | 450 | 525 | 457 | 595 | 1,601 | 1,433 | 1,758 | 1,984 | ||||||||||
Law | 175 | 482 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 182 | 174 | 320 | 243 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 613 | 659 | 211 | 23 | 17 | 33 | 681 | 3,146 | 1,402 | 935 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 9,715 | 7,697 | 12,612 | 13,712 | 7,235 | 12,282 | 23,921 | 42,317 | 37,827 | 19,009 |
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