Data
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All part-time students | 860 | 770 | 897 | 742 | 919 | 927 | 856 | 794 | 861 | 869 | ||||||||||
Male | 624 | 552 | 651 | 551 | 693 | 690 | 660 | 614 | 664 | 678 | ||||||||||
Female | 236 | 218 | 246 | 191 | 226 | 237 | 196 | 180 | 197 | 191 | ||||||||||
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 652 | 697 | 699 | 675 | 708 | 673 | 628 | 582 | 658 | 711 | ||||||||||
Hispanic or Latino | 58 | 57 | 52 | 40 | 44 | 40 | 41 | 41 | 31 | 30 | ||||||||||
Not Hispanic or Latino | 554 | 623 | 640 | 621 | 648 | 619 | 573 | 516 | 542 | 544 | ||||||||||
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
Asian | 66 | 50 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 63 | 58 | 48 | 53 | 40 | ||||||||||
Black or African American | 39 | 37 | 43 | 37 | 37 | 35 | 24 | 17 | 11 | 9 | ||||||||||
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
White | 427 | 515 | 508 | 493 | 525 | 505 | 472 | 429 | 454 | 465 | ||||||||||
More than one race | 22 | 21 | 18 | 19 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 30 | ||||||||||
Unknown ethnicity and race | 40 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 25 | 85 | 137 | ||||||||||
Temporary visa holders | 208 | 73 | 198 | 67 | 211 | 254 | 228 | 212 | 203 | 158 | ||||||||||
Science and engineering | 860 | 770 | 897 | 742 | 919 | 927 | 856 | 794 | 861 | 869 | ||||||||||
Science | 281 | 211 | 270 | 191 | 218 | 210 | 184 | 197 | 237 | 190 | ||||||||||
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 46 | 50 | 59 | 59 | 54 | 32 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 4 | ||||||||||
Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 97 | 50 | 65 | 35 | 64 | 66 | 127 | 113 | 98 | 66 | ||||||||||
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 38 | 32 | 43 | 30 | 34 | 40 | 32 | 39 | 40 | 38 | ||||||||||
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 76 | 55 | 83 | 51 | 50 | 57 | 2 | 14 | 66 | 69 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 21 | 22 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 13 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 579 | 559 | 627 | 551 | 701 | 717 | 672 | 597 | 624 | 679 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 16 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 24 | 12 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 20 | 22 | ||||||||||
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 15 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | ||||||||||
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 25 | 30 | 31 | 39 | 47 | 38 | 30 | 35 | 43 | 53 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 115 | 138 | 157 | 153 | 146 | 146 | 112 | 127 | 132 | 150 | ||||||||||
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 123 | 126 | 114 | 109 | 157 | 171 | 196 | 171 | 205 | 228 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 194 | 154 | 219 | 158 | 228 | 213 | 119 | 85 | 89 | 83 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 35 | 34 | 30 | 22 | 28 | 39 | 36 | 42 | 46 | 42 | ||||||||||
Other engineering | 32 | 35 | 35 | 34 | 51 | 70 | 153 | 112 | 80 | 93 | ||||||||||
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Other health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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).