Data
Vanderbilt U.
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 247 | 260 | 298 | 328 | 319 | 318 | 428 | 434 | 459 | 526 |
Science and engineering | 168 | 165 | 208 | 213 | 205 | 232 | 271 | 278 | 281 | 314 |
Science | 151 | 137 | 175 | 183 | 181 | 203 | 246 | 252 | 263 | 300 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 113 | 108 | 139 | 141 | 132 | 154 | 167 | 167 | 179 | 195 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 26 | 40 | 40 | 39 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 11 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 21 | 22 | 19 | 22 | 25 |
Physical sciences | 12 | 12 | 21 | 23 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 23 | 19 | 39 |
Social sciences | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 17 | 28 | 33 | 30 | 24 | 29 | 25 | 26 | 18 | 14 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 6 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 5 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 79 | 95 | 90 | 115 | 114 | 86 | 157 | 156 | 178 | 212 |
Clinical medicine | 77 | 93 | 90 | 115 | 113 | 85 | 128 | 123 | 129 | 158 |
Other health | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 33 | 49 | 54 |
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).