Data

Purdue U.
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 346 | 259 | 200 | 210 | 197 | 223 | 205 | 184 | 73 | 179 |
Science and engineering | 317 | 230 | 173 | 189 | 179 | 198 | 190 | 168 | 70 | 167 |
Science | 170 | 137 | 111 | 126 | 109 | 120 | 122 | 104 | 49 | 113 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 12 | 17 | 14 | 19 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 24 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 60 | 50 | 41 | 49 | 50 | 53 | 43 | 37 | 13 | 47 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 8 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 8 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Mathematics and statistics | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 8 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 64 | 47 | 39 | 31 | 29 | 35 | 36 | 33 | 21 | 28 |
Social sciences | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Engineering | 147 | 93 | 62 | 63 | 70 | 78 | 68 | 64 | 21 | 54 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 13 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 9 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 13 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 13 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 37 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 8 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
Mechanical engineering | 24 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 8 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 11 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Other engineering | 22 | 12 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 15 |
Health | 29 | 29 | 27 | 21 | 18 | 25 | 15 | 16 | 3 | 12 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Other health | 29 | 29 | 27 | 21 | 18 | 25 | 15 | 16 | 3 | 12 |
NOTES:
- In previous reports the data from Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne have been included with Indiana University. Due to recent clarification of program affiliation, these data are now being counted as part of Purdue University.
- . = 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).