Data

U. Minnesota
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 305 | 279 | 282 | 275 | 259 | 236 | 241 | 365 | 334 | 313 |
Science and engineering | 256 | 238 | 225 | 227 | 213 | 205 | 238 | 360 | 314 | 299 |
Science | 189 | 178 | 172 | 164 | 158 | 147 | 188 | 278 | 233 | 215 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 27 | 26 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 18 | 27 | 22 | 25 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 77 | 56 | 66 | 59 | 69 | 52 | 74 | 122 | 82 | 85 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Computer and information sciences | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 12 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 18 | 15 | 10 |
Mathematics and statistics | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 12 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 13 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 11 |
Physical sciences | 44 | 44 | 52 | 47 | 43 | 47 | 57 | 79 | 74 | 66 |
Social sciences | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Engineering | 67 | 60 | 53 | 63 | 55 | 58 | 50 | 82 | 81 | 84 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 4 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 11 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 13 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 22 | 17 | 13 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 17 | 21 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 11 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 16 | 25 | 20 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 13 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 20 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Health | 49 | 41 | 57 | 48 | 46 | 31 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 14 |
Clinical medicine | 13 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
Other health | 36 | 31 | 50 | 35 | 33 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 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).