Data

U. Notre Dame

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2021–12
Field	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All surveyed fields	77	85	77	20	37	83	69	89	100	108
Science and engineering	77	85	77	20	37	83	69	89	99	108
Science	46	50	50	14	24	56	47	58	65	71
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	22	17	20	13	8	9	9	13	16	18
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	.	.	.	.	.	2	.	.	.	.
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mathematics and statistics	3	2	0	1	3	4	2	3	1	1
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	0	0	1	0	0	5	2	4	2	0
Natural resources and conservation	.	1	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Psychology	1	2	0	0	0	2	2	3	1	1
Physical sciences	20	28	28	0	13	34	32	35	45	51
Social sciences	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	31	35	27	6	13	27	22	31	34	37
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	7	7	3	2	0	9	5	10	4	4
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	5	12	9	0	1	8	4	4	9	14
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	13	10	9	4	4	8	7	12	14	14
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	6	6	6	0	1	2	6	5	7	5
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	0	0	0	0	7	.	.	.	.	.
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	.
Health	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	1	0
Clinical medicine	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	1	0
Other health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

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).