Data
Northwestern U.
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 650 | 650 | 716 | 668 | 585 | 643 | 613 | 635 | 653 | 717 |
Science and engineering | 649 | 649 | 708 | 658 | 570 | 629 | 602 | 624 | 644 | 705 |
Science | 408 | 400 | 417 | 404 | 347 | 378 | 404 | 404 | 430 | 453 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 213 | 207 | 191 | 192 | 163 | 195 | 132 | 105 | 130 | 138 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Computer and information sciences | 25 | 25 | 26 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 21 | 17 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 5 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 11 |
Mathematics and statistics | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 16 | 20 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 21 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 62 | 45 | 55 | 59 |
Psychology | 6 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 25 |
Physical sciences | 125 | 132 | 158 | 145 | 121 | 121 | 129 | 158 | 146 | 153 |
Social sciences | 11 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 20 | 28 | 22 |
Engineering | 241 | 249 | 291 | 254 | 223 | 251 | 198 | 220 | 214 | 252 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 37 | 43 | 53 | 41 | 30 | 34 | 33 | 23 | 29 | 44 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 30 | 28 | 33 | 34 | 31 | 29 | 31 | 28 | 30 | 40 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 16 | 18 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 13 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 22 | 18 | 20 | 16 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 18 | 24 | 23 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 12 | 14 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 |
Mechanical engineering | 27 | 23 | 60 | 42 | 37 | 33 | 23 | 34 | 28 | 35 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 70 | 75 | 93 | 72 | 69 | 82 | 78 | 89 | 83 | 85 |
Other engineering | 27 | 30 | 25 | 19 | 20 | 40 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 |
Health | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 12 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Other health | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 11 |
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).