Data
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
| Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All surveyed fields | 83 | 85 | 68 | 76 | 55 | 52 | 57 | 81 | 64 | 65 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Science and engineering | 83 | 85 | 68 | 76 | 55 | 52 | 57 | 81 | 64 | 65 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Science | 39 | 41 | 32 | 37 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 22 | 19 | 25 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Biological and biomedical sciences | 10 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 16 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 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 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Mathematics and statistics | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 7 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Physical sciences | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Engineering | 44 | 44 | 36 | 39 | 30 | 32 | 44 | 59 | 45 | 40 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 8 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Mechanical engineering | 15 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Other engineering | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Other health | 0 | 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).
