Data

Virginia Commonwealth U.

Postdoctorates in science, engineering, and health, by selected characteristics: 2021–12
All races	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
Science and engineering	117	121	122	135	111	94	127	158	138	135
Science	95	94	87	97	80	77	108	139	120	123
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological and biomedical sciences	62	73	73	81	63	57	85	114	102	106
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	.	.	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	13	7	1	2	3	2	3	2	2	1
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	4	4	8	7	0
Physical sciences	13	11	8	5	8	8	9	7	6	11
Psychology	6	2	3	7	6	6	3	7	3	4
Social sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0
Engineering	22	27	35	38	31	17	19	19	18	12
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	5	6	5	5	3	1	3	5	6	1
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	6	7	13	20	18	9	9	9	8	7
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	2	3	3	3	2	1	1	1	1	2
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Mechanical engineering	8	9	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	1	2	14	10	8	6	6	4	3	2
Health	84	84	79	69	66	65	67	91	87	82
Clinical medicine	42	37	33	27	32	38	42	66	64	63
Other health	42	47	46	42	34	27	25	25	23	19

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).