Data

U. Southern California
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 799 | 752 | 716 | 682 | 782 | 695 | 720 | 828 | 825 | 713 |
Science and engineering | 766 | 721 | 664 | 630 | 741 | 652 | 686 | 803 | 794 | 674 |
Science | 454 | 442 | 446 | 393 | 494 | 401 | 456 | 521 | 520 | 444 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 180 | 182 | 158 | 122 | 210 | 129 | 164 | 216 | 210 | 212 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Computer and information sciences | 120 | 123 | 135 | 156 | 125 | 100 | 114 | 131 | 125 | 66 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 32 | 23 | 23 | 15 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 32 | 35 | 27 |
Mathematics and statistics | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 1 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 41 | 48 | 52 | 58 | 54 |
Psychology | 8 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 15 |
Physical sciences | 89 | 76 | 93 | 67 | 90 | 64 | 60 | 46 | 70 | 48 |
Social sciences | 23 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 19 | 14 | 21 | 24 | 4 | 12 |
Engineering | 312 | 279 | 218 | 237 | 247 | 251 | 230 | 282 | 274 | 230 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 4 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 2 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 3 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 39 | 31 | 44 | 61 | 53 | 37 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 19 | 3 | 18 | 20 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 51 | 38 | 35 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 32 | 26 | 23 | 35 | 32 | 34 | 9 | 15 | 7 | 13 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 216 | 200 | 133 | 127 | 99 | 115 | 118 | 113 | 129 | 105 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 21 | 22 | 13 | 22 | 18 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 17 | 18 |
Mechanical engineering | 17 | 17 | 26 | 6 | 30 | 27 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 19 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Health | 33 | 31 | 52 | 52 | 41 | 43 | 34 | 25 | 31 | 39 |
Clinical medicine | 8 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 16 | 13 | 14 |
Other health | 25 | 28 | 47 | 35 | 27 | 32 | 21 | 9 | 18 | 25 |
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).