Data

U. Iowa
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 170 | 107 | 184 | 192 | 173 | 180 | 182 | 190 | 181 | 190 |
Science and engineering | 83 | 63 | 100 | 106 | 85 | 111 | 104 | 108 | 100 | 108 |
Science | 69 | 55 | 96 | 99 | 85 | 104 | 97 | 100 | 86 | 95 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 41 | 36 | 67 | 76 | 65 | 86 | 67 | 69 | 55 | 65 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 6 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 |
Physical sciences | 16 | 11 | 18 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 20 |
Social sciences | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Engineering | 14 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 13 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 87 | 44 | 84 | 86 | 88 | 69 | 78 | 82 | 81 | 82 |
Clinical medicine | 75 | 34 | 74 | 73 | 74 | 57 | 64 | 73 | 69 | 68 |
Other health | 12 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 14 |
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).