Data

North Carolina State U.
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 547,118 | 546,290 | 541,100 | 509,841 | 500,445 | 489,918 | 468,293 | 446,112 | 417,468 | 404,225 | ||||||||||
Science | 356,407 | 353,349 | 348,534 | 331,171 | 330,585 | 331,335 | 319,059 | 290,173 | 283,707 | 277,311 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 17,016 | 16,119 | 14,614 | 11,537 | 11,083 | 12,009 | 14,218 | 12,695 | 12,031 | 11,073 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 25,579 | 27,010 | 21,691 | 19,819 | 19,596 | 24,589 | 24,908 | 25,951 | 21,244 | 18,603 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 6,504 | 6,860 | 6,626 | 6,476 | 7,229 | 7,013 | 7,118 | 9,785 | 8,216 | 6,631 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 6,271 | 6,576 | 2,994 | 3,446 | 3,248 | 5,426 | 5,330 | 4,001 | 2,547 | 3,110 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 12,804 | 13,574 | 12,071 | 9,897 | 9,119 | 12,150 | 12,460 | 12,165 | 10,481 | 8,862 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 237,289 | 240,399 | 244,235 | 231,243 | 234,319 | 227,500 | 208,852 | 189,274 | 191,061 | 193,145 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 108,416 | 108,002 | 111,537 | 112,533 | 113,295 | 122,545 | 99,041 | 81,675 | 91,364 | 92,335 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 119,614 | 120,671 | 120,567 | 108,990 | 110,122 | 99,660 | 97,777 | 80,310 | 84,580 | 88,030 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 9,259 | 11,726 | 12,131 | 9,720 | 10,902 | 5,295 | 12,027 | 27,280 | 15,108 | 12,772 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 20,392 | 20,164 | 20,296 | 21,722 | 21,909 | 23,522 | 21,317 | 20,883 | 22,207 | 20,846 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 28,455 | 23,464 | 22,753 | 21,204 | 19,270 | 18,127 | 20,955 | 22,001 | 17,045 | 17,978 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 16,108 | 11,821 | 10,796 | 7,648 | 8,261 | 6,522 | 8,012 | 7,718 | 7,658 | 10,159 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 12,217 | 11,615 | 11,957 | 10,671 | 10,517 | 8,794 | 10,160 | 8,847 | 7,747 | 7,803 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 130 | 28 | 0 | 2,885 | 492 | 2,811 | 2,783 | 5,436 | 1,640 | 16 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 2,523 | 2,479 | 3,071 | 3,443 | 3,550 | 3,457 | 3,398 | 2,826 | 2,556 | 2,494 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 10,768 | 9,826 | 8,403 | 8,361 | 7,007 | 7,270 | 12,745 | 13,138 | 15,199 | 11,020 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 7,437 | 7,085 | 6,438 | 6,362 | 4,856 | 5,104 | 5,310 | 4,529 | 4,964 | 5,394 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 355 | 415 | 411 | 529 | 651 | 566 | 894 | 715 | 471 | 176 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 2,976 | 2,326 | 1,554 | 1,470 | 1,500 | 1,600 | 2,380 | 1,291 | 632 | 474 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,161 | 6,603 | 9,132 | 4,976 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 14,385 | 13,888 | 13,471 | 13,842 | 13,851 | 14,861 | 12,666 | 3,405 | 2,364 | 2,152 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 172,900 | 174,740 | 174,590 | 166,680 | 158,389 | 147,704 | 143,288 | 150,219 | 129,817 | 122,735 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 121 | 1,632 | 319 | 983 | 1,058 | 1,456 | 2,539 | 3,637 | 2,288 | 4,237 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 15,474 | 14,969 | 15,608 | 14,268 | 12,666 | 12,055 | 10,351 | 10,485 | 10,397 | 9,633 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 34,698 | 31,878 | 33,103 | 30,765 | 26,200 | 23,150 | 24,744 | 29,521 | 26,078 | 25,359 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 18,560 | 19,313 | 18,152 | 13,541 | 11,867 | 12,066 | 11,425 | 14,773 | 10,771 | 11,605 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 38,755 | 41,712 | 39,140 | 37,416 | 44,272 | 39,239 | 34,733 | 30,933 | 26,246 | 19,693 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 9,188 | 9,520 | 6,662 | 6,547 | 7,728 | 6,764 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 13,845 | 10,736 | 10,819 | 8,174 | 8,693 | 7,991 | 7,073 | 8,710 | 7,306 | 6,889 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 22,957 | 22,414 | 27,471 | 30,529 | 24,413 | 26,272 | 27,439 | 27,215 | 18,102 | 18,943 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 19,302 | 22,566 | 23,316 | 24,457 | 21,492 | 18,711 | 24,984 | 24,945 | 28,629 | 26,376 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 17,811 | 18,201 | 17,976 | 11,990 | 11,471 | 10,879 | 5,946 | 5,720 | 3,944 | 4,179 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 198 | 395 | 404 | 390 | 438 | 554 | 537 | 364 | 249 | 183 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 11,833 | 13,618 | 13,411 | 6,591 | 5,737 | 5,775 | 5,368 | 4,332 | 3,570 | 3,803 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 5,780 | 4,188 | 4,161 | 5,009 | 5,296 | 4,550 | 40 | 1,024 | 125 | 193 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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