Data

Northeastern U.

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2021–12
Field	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All surveyed fields	74	71	70	85	95	92	82	77	69	75
Science and engineering	71	69	64	81	88	76	67	61	63	59
Science	53	47	47	57	60	51	45	47	44	46
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	13	14	11	15	14	4	3	4	8	9
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	6	3	8	7	7	6	5	0	1	2
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	1	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	.	.
Mathematics and statistics	0	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	4	5	7	9	7	6	4	8	6	5
Physical sciences	27	24	20	24	29	24	29	26	22	27
Social sciences	2	1	1	2	3	7	3	7	7	3
Engineering	18	22	17	24	28	25	22	14	19	13
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	6	8	7	8	4	1	1	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	1	4	3	2	4	6	3	3	7	4
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	2	1	0	2	1	0	1	2	4	2
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	6	7	5	9	12	13	8	3	4	3
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.	.
Mechanical engineering	3	2	2	3	7	5	9	6	4	4
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	3	2	6	4	7	16	15	16	6	16
Clinical medicine	0	0	2	1	0	2	1	0	.	.
Other health	3	2	4	3	7	14	14	16	6	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).