Data

U. Houston

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	82	49	61	63	66	59	54	55	60
Science and engineering	72	79	44	53	58	55	49	51	52	58
Science	54	54	31	38	39	41	34	39	38	42
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	17	22	17	21	13	10	13	9	13	18
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	4	3	0	4	3	4	3	4	1	2
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	4	3	0	1	2	1	0	3	4	2
Mathematics and statistics	1	2	2	2	5	2	0	4	5	3
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	.	0	.	0	0	0	1	2	0	1
Natural resources and conservation	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	12	7	3	3	9	4	8	7	5	2
Physical sciences	16	17	9	7	7	20	9	10	10	14
Social sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	18	25	13	15	19	14	15	12	14	16
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	5	9	4	3	7	4	6	8	6	6
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	1	7	4	3	2	4	3	1	1	4
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	7	2	3	5	6	3	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	5	4	1	2	3	3	4	3	5	4
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	0	3	1	1	1	0	2	0	1	0
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other engineering	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
Health	5	3	5	8	5	11	10	3	3	2
Clinical medicine	0	.	.	0	.	0	1	0	2	0
Other health	5	3	5	8	5	11	9	3	1	2

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).