Data

U. Iowa
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 591 | 471 | 459 | 486 | 525 | 497 | 509 | 485 | 562 | 558 |
Science and engineering | 502 | 419 | 410 | 420 | 447 | 434 | 440 | 421 | 485 | 480 |
Science | 376 | 309 | 316 | 317 | 347 | 338 | 321 | 305 | 349 | 360 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 195 | 179 | 186 | 179 | 197 | 157 | 152 | 169 | 192 | 182 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 29 | 26 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 10 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Mathematics and statistics | 21 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 12 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 35 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 21 | 20 | 22 | 26 | 24 |
Psychology | 29 | 42 | 34 | 26 | 36 | 24 | 35 | 31 | 34 | 32 |
Physical sciences | 61 | 49 | 63 | 70 | 68 | 80 | 75 | 51 | 61 | 86 |
Social sciences | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 25 | 19 | 8 | 13 | 12 |
Engineering | 126 | 110 | 94 | 103 | 100 | 96 | 119 | 116 | 136 | 120 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 33 | 26 | 18 | 20 | 18 | 22 | 34 | 32 | 33 | 30 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 7 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 11 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 23 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 25 | 16 | 16 | 23 | 26 | 26 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 21 | 15 | 15 | 25 | 22 | 28 | 31 | 23 | 19 | 30 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 11 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 9 |
Mechanical engineering | 25 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 16 | 20 | 22 | 18 | 33 | 14 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 6 | 6 | . | 5 | 7 | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 89 | 52 | 49 | 66 | 78 | 63 | 69 | 64 | 77 | 78 |
Clinical medicine | 23 | 36 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 42 | 31 | 26 | 32 | 42 |
Other health | 66 | 16 | 14 | 32 | 44 | 21 | 38 | 38 | 45 | 36 |
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).