Data
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All surveyed fields | 138 | 123 | 116 | 113 | 126 | 115 | 113 | 114 | 111 | 126 | ||||||||||
Science and engineering | 137 | 122 | 116 | 109 | 122 | 110 | 108 | 101 | 103 | 113 | ||||||||||
Science | 103 | 91 | 85 | 71 | 82 | 63 | 61 | 64 | 64 | 72 | ||||||||||
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 20 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 18 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 19 | 17 | 17 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 14 | 27 | 30 | 36 | ||||||||||
Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 15 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 20 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 9 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 33 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 20 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 34 | 31 | 31 | 38 | 40 | 47 | 47 | 37 | 39 | 41 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 6 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 8 | ||||||||||
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 8 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 7 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||
Other engineering | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||
Health | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 13 | ||||||||||
Clinical medicine | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 10 | ||||||||||
Other health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 |
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).