Data

U. California, Merced

Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health receiving primary support from federal sources, by field: 2023–14
Field	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
All surveyed fields	80	85	137	85	94	67	59	55	45	27
Science and engineering	79	84	135	84	93	66	59	55	45	27
Science	56	63	95	63	65	45	36	36	26	18
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	5	8
Biological and biomedical sciences	15	17	27	17	16	18	9	9	7	3
Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	20	14	17	14	13	5	0	2	1	2
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	0	5	4	5	6	3	5	4	1	1
Natural resources and conservation	5	6	16	6	8	5	4	0	0	0
Physical sciences	16	21	31	21	21	14	17	10	8	2
Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1
Social sciences	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1
Engineering	23	21	40	21	28	21	23	19	19	9
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	3	3	5	3	3	4	3	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	6	4	18	4	8	7	13	8	8	4
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	12	12	12	12	15	10	7	6	7	3
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	2	2	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	4	2
Health	1	1	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Clinical medicine	1	1	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
Other health	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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).