Data

U. Maryland, College Park

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2023–14
Field	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
All surveyed fields	.	.	.	.	.	315	352	306	332	261
Science and engineering	.	.	.	.	.	305	345	301	330	257
Science	.	.	.	.	.	265	286	244	278	218
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	13	9	11	5	4
Biological and biomedical sciences	.	.	.	.	.	45	42	25	20	21
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	.	.	.	.	.	8	12	18	23	15
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	.	.	42	41	43	42	23
Mathematics and statistics	.	.	.	.	.	2	3	3	1	3
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	0	1	6	7	20
Natural resources and conservation	.	.	.	.	.	1	30	0	0	0
Physical sciences	.	.	.	.	.	132	132	127	159	110
Psychology	.	.	.	.	.	10	7	9	12	11
Social sciences	.	.	.	.	.	12	9	2	9	11
Engineering	.	.	.	.	.	40	59	57	52	39
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	4	3	0	0	0
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	5	2	3
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	.	.	.	.	.	5	7	5	7	4
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	1	8	5	0	2
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	.	.	.	.	.	3	4	6	10	4
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	.	.	.	.	7	6	6	7	5
Mechanical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	4	10	7	4	7
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	12	15	17	15	9
Other engineering	.	.	.	.	.	4	6	6	7	5
Health	.	.	.	.	.	10	7	5	2	4
Clinical medicine	.	.	.	.	.	3	6	2	1	1
Other health	.	.	.	.	.	7	1	3	1	3

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).