Data

U. Delaware

Postdoctorates in science, engineering, and health, by selected characteristics: 2021–12
All races	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
Science and engineering	186	174	175	154	136	131	129	151	125	127
Science	118	103	106	93	95	78	76	95	75	73
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	19	16	13	10	8	14	21	21	11	13
Biological and biomedical sciences	7	10	8	4	5	6	20	16	14	9
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	.
Computer and information sciences	1	1	2	1	1	2	3	6	3	3
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	1
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	15	16	24	19	20	18	15	11	9	10
Mathematics and statistics	6	5	5	5	5	4	2	2	5	7
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	14	14	11	8	12	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	0	5	0	.	.
Physical sciences	37	23	24	31	32	25	7	28	31	23
Psychology	9	7	7	7	5	5	0	0	0	4
Social sciences	10	11	12	8	7	4	3	11	2	3
Engineering	68	71	69	61	41	53	53	56	50	54
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	2	1	5	6	4	3	2	3	1	1
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	47	53	53	35	25	32	38	36	35	37
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	3	0	1	4	3	4	1	3	4	5
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	5	9	7	10	2	1	0	0	1	3
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	5	0	0	3	5	2	0	0	3	6
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	6	8	3	3	2	11	12	14	6	2
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.	.
Health	9	9	6	6	8	6	3	15	6	6
Clinical medicine	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.	.
Other health	7	5	6	6	8	6	3	15	6	6

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).