Data

Northeastern U.
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 503 | 485 | 455 | 474 | 469 | 384 | 357 | 350 | 347 | 373 |
Science and engineering | 493 | 472 | 438 | 462 | 437 | 365 | 346 | 350 | 336 | 358 |
Science | 238 | 187 | 189 | 210 | 179 | 162 | 160 | 163 | 175 | 169 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 20 | 16 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 29 | 26 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 121 | 90 | 91 | 93 | 74 | 63 | 61 | 66 | 58 | 50 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 2 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 5 | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 6 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 48 | 45 | 42 | 50 | 51 | 58 | 55 | 61 | 73 | 79 |
Psychology | 16 | 14 | 13 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Social sciences | 12 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 3 |
Engineering | 255 | 285 | 249 | 252 | 258 | 203 | 186 | 187 | 161 | 189 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 12 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 20 | 15 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 16 | 17 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 18 | 22 | 17 | 15 | 21 | 18 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 16 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 135 | 166 | 148 | 158 | 145 | 115 | 95 | 87 | 59 | 91 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 11 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 19 | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 26 | 26 | 28 | 24 | 35 | 27 | 26 | 21 | 47 | 51 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 45 | 43 | 35 | 27 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 3 | 2 |
Health | 10 | 13 | 17 | 12 | 32 | 19 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 15 |
Clinical medicine | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | . | . |
Other health | 9 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 15 |
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).