Data

Northeastern 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	150	136	114	132	150	126	95	96	90	80
Science	103	94	82	91	101	88	64	72	61	57
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	22	22	17	23	25	11	3	10	8	12
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	15	6	13	12	11	7	6	1	1	2
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	1	2	2	0	0	9	4	5	.	.
Mathematics and statistics	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	13	12	10	11	11	11	8	11	8	6
Physical sciences	45	48	38	39	45	41	39	37	35	33
Social sciences	4	4	2	6	9	9	4	8	9	4
Engineering	47	42	32	41	49	38	31	24	29	23
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	9	10	12	9	8	2	1	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	8	7	5	5	8	9	3	4	9	7
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	5	5	2	6	4	1	4	4	6	2
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	19	14	10	15	18	15	11	4	6	8
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.	.
Mechanical engineering	6	6	3	6	11	11	12	12	8	6
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	55	43	38	22	14	23	19	21	15	16
Clinical medicine	1	0	3	2	1	5	3	0	.	.
Other health	54	43	35	20	13	18	16	21	15	16

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).