Data

U. Houston

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	170	216	180	199	222	235	242	243	205	179
Science	118	131	118	132	147	166	179	181	149	126
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	34	51	48	59	43	50	50	42	39	48
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	6	3	0	6	7	8	14	11	3	2
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	11	11	5	5	6	10	9	16	15	7
Mathematics and statistics	5	4	7	9	12	4	2	12	11	11
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	.	0	.	0	0	5	2	4	4	7
Natural resources and conservation	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	20	11	6	5	21	15	29	15	8	6
Physical sciences	34	42	45	40	51	63	66	76	63	40
Social sciences	8	9	7	8	7	11	7	5	6	5
Engineering	52	85	62	67	75	69	63	62	56	53
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	9	18	10	10	10	5	10	12	11	11
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	12	31	32	26	29	27	24	20	16	17
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	12	8	10	8	13	12	5	9	4	6
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	15	17	8	9	13	14	13	13	12	11
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Mechanical engineering	4	10	2	9	8	10	11	7	10	5
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	1	0	5	2	0	0	0	3	2
Health	15	17	17	21	15	28	22	15	14	19
Clinical medicine	3	.	.	0	.	4	6	1	4	7
Other health	12	17	17	21	15	24	16	14	10	12

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).