Data

Southern Methodist U.

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2021–12
Field	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All surveyed fields	31	22	25	16	15	15	18	17	10	12
Science and engineering	31	22	25	16	15	15	18	17	10	12
Science	29	18	21	12	13	13	17	14	9	9
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	5	5	7	3	2	2	2	0	0	0
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	4	2	4	3	1	1	4	2	2	1
Mathematics and statistics	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	15	7	8	5	10	10	10	11	7	8
Social sciences	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0
Engineering	2	4	4	4	2	2	1	3	1	3
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	4	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	2	1	3
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Clinical medicine	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
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).