Data

U. Massachusetts, Lowell

Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health receiving primary support from federal sources, by field: 2021–12
Field	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All surveyed fields	86	91	84	84	92	26	28	30	35	36
Science and engineering	84	89	79	78	82	26	28	30	30	30
Science	38	35	31	27	24	0	0	0	0	0
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	7	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	9	8	7	8	9	0	0	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	4	3	3	2	1	.	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	13	14	13	12	10	0	0	0	0	0
Social sciences	4	3	4	5	4	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	46	54	48	51	58	26	28	30	30	30
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	8	16	13	15	21	5	5	6	6	6
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	14	14	13	12	14	0	0	0	0	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	15	17	16	17	17	15	17	17	17	17
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	2	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	4	3	3	4	2	0	0	0	0	0
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	6	6	7	7	7
Other engineering	3	3	3	3	4	0	0	0	0	0
Health	2	2	5	6	10	0	0	0	5	6
Clinical medicine	0	0	2	3	5	0	0	0	0	0
Other health	2	2	3	3	5	0	0	0	5	6

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).