Data
Northwestern U.
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All part-time students | 572 | 547 | 589 | 429 | 213 | 177 | 245 | 235 | 267 | 134 |
Male | 161 | 143 | 185 | 154 | 114 | 115 | 131 | 118 | 163 | 76 |
Female | 411 | 404 | 404 | 275 | 99 | 62 | 114 | 117 | 104 | 58 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 482 | 521 | 502 | 358 | 107 | 69 | 136 | 147 | 180 | 84 |
Hispanic or Latino | 60 | 58 | 60 | 36 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 2 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 404 | 446 | 424 | 313 | 95 | 61 | 121 | 133 | 155 | 75 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Asian | 65 | 67 | 54 | 40 | 27 | 20 | 6 | 30 | 44 | 23 |
Black or African American | 42 | 60 | 66 | 48 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 272 | 295 | 287 | 217 | 60 | 36 | 108 | 98 | 105 | 50 |
More than one race | 24 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 18 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 7 |
Temporary visa holders | 90 | 26 | 87 | 71 | 106 | 108 | 109 | 88 | 87 | 50 |
Science and engineering | 488 | 463 | 507 | 368 | 160 | 126 | 156 | 148 | 198 | 65 |
Science | 385 | 384 | 369 | 254 | 21 | 25 | 63 | 55 | 145 | 26 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 33 | 11 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 42 | 48 | 42 | 17 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Psychology | 346 | 363 | 341 | 234 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Social sciences | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 97 | 1 |
Engineering | 103 | 79 | 138 | 114 | 139 | 101 | 93 | 93 | 53 | 39 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 5 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 9 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 19 | 5 | 27 | 14 | 37 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 11 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 60 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 12 | 5 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 4 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 30 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 8 |
Other engineering | 33 | 50 | 64 | 64 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Health | 84 | 84 | 82 | 61 | 53 | 51 | 89 | 87 | 69 | 69 |
Clinical medicine | 74 | 67 | 64 | 45 | 42 | 40 | 61 | 66 | 69 | 43 |
Other health | 10 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 28 | 21 | 0 | 26 |
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).