Data
Vanderbilt U.
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 836 | 828 | 786 | 629 | 690 | 681 | 765 | 768 | 806 | 794 |
Science and engineering | 828 | 820 | 777 | 620 | 671 | 664 | 716 | 714 | 771 | 768 |
Science | 602 | 572 | 561 | 487 | 503 | 495 | 518 | 525 | 546 | 561 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 411 | 407 | 379 | 347 | 354 | 335 | 212 | 189 | 204 | 225 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 56 | 49 | 47 | 39 | 37 | 42 | 38 | 26 | 36 | 40 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 15 | 4 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | . | . | 62 | 76 | 73 | 67 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 53 | 57 | 64 | 54 |
Psychology | 30 | 27 | 32 | 20 | 30 | 28 | 25 | 27 | 30 | 23 |
Physical sciences | 74 | 72 | 81 | 72 | 73 | 46 | 93 | 123 | 102 | 136 |
Social sciences | 27 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 12 |
Engineering | 226 | 248 | 216 | 133 | 168 | 169 | 198 | 189 | 225 | 207 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 86 | 96 | 65 | 23 | 40 | 43 | 46 | 41 | 45 | 29 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 30 | 28 | 33 | 16 | 25 | 20 | 27 | 29 | 35 | 39 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 31 | 32 | 26 | 10 | 15 | 17 | 27 | 28 | 23 | 32 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 39 | 46 | 45 | 46 | 45 | 54 | 46 | 44 | 50 | 59 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 40 | 46 | 47 | 38 | 43 | 35 | 39 | 31 | 51 | 29 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | 13 | 16 | 21 | 19 |
Other engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 19 | 17 | 49 | 54 | 35 | 26 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 26 | 16 | 5 |
Other health | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 19 | 17 | 29 | 28 | 19 | 21 |
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).