Data

U. Delaware

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	77	76	74	72	73	137	90	118	90	101
Science and engineering	75	73	73	69	70	131	89	109	86	97
Science	54	47	52	44	48	78	57	74	48	52
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	9	9	8	6	5	14	14	18	5	10
Biological and biomedical sciences	3	4	4	3	3	6	16	10	9	7
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	.
Computer and information sciences	1	1	1	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	8	7	10	7	11	18	9	7	7	7
Mathematics and statistics	5	3	3	2	2	4	2	2	1	1
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	4	8	6	3	6	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	0	4	0	.	.
Psychology	4	2	5	3	2	5	0	0	0	3
Physical sciences	17	9	12	19	18	25	6	22	22	19
Social sciences	3	4	3	0	0	4	3	9	1	1
Engineering	21	26	21	25	22	53	32	35	38	45
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	1	0	3	3	2	3	2	0	1	1
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	12	17	13	13	14	32	21	22	25	31
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	1	0	0	0	1	4	1	2	4	2
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	4	4	6	1	1	0	0	1	3
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	2	0	0	2	4	2	0	0	3	6
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	3	5	1	1	0	11	8	11	4	2
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.	.
Health	2	3	1	3	3	6	1	9	4	4
Clinical medicine	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.	.
Other health	2	1	1	3	3	6	1	9	4	4

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).