Data

U. California, Merced

Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health receiving primary support from federal sources, by field: 2021–12
Field	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All surveyed fields	137	85	94	67	59	55	45	27	.	.
Science and engineering	135	84	93	66	59	55	45	27	.	.
Science	95	63	65	45	36	36	26	18	.	.
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	9	5	8	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	27	17	16	18	9	9	7	3	.	.
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	0	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.
Mathematics and statistics	17	14	13	5	0	2	1	2	.	.
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	4	5	6	3	5	4	1	1	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	16	6	8	5	4	.	.	.	.	.
Physical sciences	31	21	21	14	17	10	8	2	.	.
Psychology	.	.	0	0	0	1	3	1	.	.
Social sciences	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	.	.
Engineering	40	21	28	21	23	19	19	9	.	.
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	5	3	3	4	3	.	.	.	.	.
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	18	4	8	7	13	8	8	4	.	.
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	12	12	15	10	7	6	7	3	.	.
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	5	2	2	0	0	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	0	0	0	.	.	5	4	2	.	.
Health	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	.	.
Clinical medicine	2	1	1	1	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).