Data

Mississippi 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	50	42	37	38	40	28	34	29	25	28
Science	41	29	21	26	22	21	22	16	10	9
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	10	8	3	5	4	8	6	4	4	4
Biological and biomedical sciences	5	4	3	3	2	3	8	6	2	3
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	0	0
Natural resources and conservation	11	8	5	8	6	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	14	8	9	10	10	8	6	5	4	2
Social sciences	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	1	0	0
Engineering	9	13	16	12	18	7	12	13	15	19
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	1	2	2	2	0	1	1	4	4
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	4	5	3	3	3	3	2	3	5	9
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	2	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	1	2	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	2	2	2	3	9	3	6	6	5	5
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	1	1	5	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Health	0	0	7	8	8	12	17	17	16	7
Clinical medicine	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other health	0	0	7	8	8	12	17	17	16	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).