Data

U. Southern California
Field | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
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All surveyed fields | 240 | 282 | 270 | 252 | 266 | 243 | 253 | 229 | 221 | 234 | ||||||||||
Science and engineering | 157 | 167 | 184 | 166 | 189 | 180 | 196 | 174 | 159 | 174 | ||||||||||
Science | 115 | 126 | 147 | 128 | 152 | 151 | 167 | 142 | 143 | 138 | ||||||||||
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 70 | 85 | 103 | 81 | 93 | 78 | 100 | 69 | 73 | 53 | ||||||||||
Neurobiology and neuroscience | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 17 | ||||||||||
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 18 | 14 | 19 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 14 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 26 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 13 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 22 | 16 | 24 | 24 | 28 | 17 | 21 | 16 | 15 | 22 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 10 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 42 | 41 | 37 | 38 | 37 | 29 | 29 | 32 | 16 | 36 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||||
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 6 | ||||||||||
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 24 | 22 | 23 | 29 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 17 | ||||||||||
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Health | 83 | 115 | 86 | 86 | 77 | 63 | 57 | 55 | 62 | 60 | ||||||||||
Clinical medicine | 76 | 89 | 75 | 71 | 62 | 56 | 48 | 48 | 57 | 54 | ||||||||||
Other health | 7 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 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).