Data

Northern Illinois U.

Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health receiving primary support from federal sources, by field: 2022–13
Field	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013
All surveyed fields	31	29	26	28	29	28	39	41	50	35
Science and engineering	31	29	26	28	26	27	38	40	49	34
Science	26	23	21	23	21	22	31	33	39	25
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	4	4	3
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	2	.
Computer and information sciences	4	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	3	2	2	4	3	3	6	6	7	4
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences	15	14	14	13	12	13	10	12	13	7
Psychology	3	4	3	3	3	3	6	6	7	6
Social sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	6	5
Engineering	5	6	5	5	5	5	7	7	10	9
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	.	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	4	7	5
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Mechanical engineering	3	4	2	2	2	2	4	3	3	3
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	.	.	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Health	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	1	1	1
Clinical medicine	0	0	0	0	.	1	1	.	.	.
Other health	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	1

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).