Data
Rice U.
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 31 | 387 | 343 | 362 | 322 | 200 | 312 | 357 | 392 | 420 |
Science and engineering | 31 | 387 | 343 | 362 | 322 | 200 | 312 | 357 | 392 | 420 |
Science | 18 | 217 | 159 | 211 | 191 | 103 | 183 | 207 | 258 | 288 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 2 | 10 | 27 | 28 | 26 | 17 | 20 | 28 | 29 | 29 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 23 | 0 | 38 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 34 | 37 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 13 | 12 | 21 | 31 | 10 | 37 | 36 | 22 | 30 |
Mathematics and statistics | 5 | 35 | 37 | 34 | 20 | 13 | 31 | 32 | 44 | 59 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 2 | 43 | 0 | 3 | . | . | 20 | 18 | 17 | 19 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 7 | 79 | 80 | 72 | 69 | 40 | 60 | 80 | 106 | 107 |
Psychology | 0 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Social sciences | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
Engineering | 13 | 170 | 184 | 151 | 131 | 97 | 129 | 150 | 134 | 132 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 0 | 40 | 43 | 40 | 57 | 34 | 50 | 52 | 38 | 41 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 3 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 18 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 1 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 7 | . | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 4 | 62 | 54 | 41 | 52 | 34 | 50 | 67 | 52 | 46 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 3 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 27 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | 20 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 | . |
Other engineering | 1 | 24 | 20 | 14 | 0 | 15 | . | . | . | . |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
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).