California State U., Long Beach
Rankings
Data year | Earned doctorates | Full-time graduate students | Total R&D expenditures | |||||||||
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Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | |
2022 | 169 | 75.5 | 680 | 303 | 66.4 | 890 | ||||||
2021 | 178 | 74.6 | 691 | 254 | 57 | 583 | 309 | 66.3 | 907 | |||
2020 | 179 | 74.7 | 697 | 289 | 68.8 | 915 | ||||||
2019 | 200 | 71.6 | 696 | 257 | 56.9 | 589 | 277 | 70 | 913 | |||
2018 | 124 | 82.5 | 698 | 255 | 72.3 | 910 | ||||||
2017 | 119 | 82.9 | 684 | 252 | 56.7 | 575 | 273 | 70 | 897 | |||
2016 | 144 | 79.7 | 697 | 289 | 68.1 | 895 | ||||||
2015 | 153 | 78.2 | 693 | 252 | 56.3 | 570 | 335 | 63.1 | 897 | |||
2014 | 153 | 78.1 | 688 | 311 | 65.4 | 887 | ||||||
2013 | 162 | 71.2 | 555 | 303 | 49.1 | 588 | 301 | 66.4 | 884 |
NOTES:
- 1. See TableBuilder for the prior year data.
- 2. Blank white cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or institution not eligible for survey.
- 3. Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Data
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All full-time students | 888 | 769 | 661 | 588 | 1,127 | 1,178 | 999 | 961 | 957 | 791 |
Male | 435 | 368 | 306 | 286 | 611 | 638 | 495 | 541 | 572 | 463 |
Female | 453 | 401 | 355 | 302 | 516 | 540 | 504 | 420 | 385 | 328 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 460 | 525 | 511 | 422 | 910 | 902 | 683 | 555 | 475 | 445 |
Hispanic or Latino | 184 | 200 | 214 | 158 | 310 | 291 | 194 | 156 | 138 | 102 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 257 | 304 | 279 | 243 | 553 | 557 | 451 | 355 | 291 | 303 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Asian | 97 | 129 | 122 | 95 | 209 | 208 | 157 | 119 | 89 | 97 |
Black or African American | 16 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 37 | 37 | 31 | 22 | 26 | 27 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
White | 122 | 132 | 123 | 116 | 270 | 281 | 229 | 183 | 151 | 151 |
More than one race | 20 | 24 | 13 | 16 | 36 | 29 | 34 | 30 | 19 | 23 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 19 | 21 | 18 | 21 | 47 | 54 | 38 | 44 | 46 | 40 |
Temporary visa holders | 428 | 244 | 150 | 166 | 217 | 276 | 316 | 406 | 482 | 346 |
Science and engineering | 781 | 668 | 576 | 493 | 985 | 1,029 | 797 | 773 | 875 | 731 |
Science | 628 | 525 | 472 | 408 | 686 | 709 | 593 | 499 | 564 | 509 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 16 | 14 | 13 | 19 | 81 | 70 | 52 | 22 | 28 | 31 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 5 | 10 | 12 | 5 |
Computer and information sciences | 302 | 190 | 104 | 120 | 142 | 144 | 134 | 138 | 185 | 150 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 5 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 12 |
Mathematics and statistics | 52 | 45 | 60 | 64 | 133 | 132 | 61 | 52 | 51 | 56 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 12 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 28 | 10 | 6 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 136 | 143 | 138 | 64 | 71 | 70 | 103 | 58 | 48 | 37 |
Physical sciences | 18 | 15 | 18 | 12 | 60 | 66 | 16 | 25 | 21 | 23 |
Social sciences | 87 | 106 | 112 | 103 | 161 | 185 | 206 | 180 | 211 | 195 |
Engineering | 153 | 143 | 104 | 85 | 299 | 320 | 204 | 274 | 311 | 222 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 17 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 44 | 53 | 35 | 26 | 10 | 19 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 16 | 19 | 14 | 4 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 47 | 29 | 24 | 22 | 68 | 75 | 46 | 40 | 25 | 26 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 41 | 44 | 31 | 27 | 68 | 71 | 85 | 162 | 217 | 132 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 29 | 25 | 23 | 24 | 84 | 90 | 27 | 30 | 38 | 22 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 35 | 31 | 11 | 16 | 21 | 23 |
Health | 107 | 101 | 85 | 95 | 142 | 149 | 202 | 188 | 82 | 60 |
Clinical medicine | 55 | 48 | 37 | 49 | 63 | 61 | 37 | 45 | 47 | 28 |
Other health | 52 | 53 | 48 | 46 | 79 | 88 | 165 | 143 | 35 | 32 |
NOTE:
- . = 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).
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All part-time students | 581 | 665 | 595 | 579 | 56 | 53 | 782 | 893 | 838 | 862 |
Male | 342 | 395 | 354 | 349 | 35 | 36 | 429 | 496 | 477 | 492 |
Female | 239 | 270 | 241 | 230 | 21 | 17 | 353 | 397 | 361 | 370 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 526 | 591 | 540 | 532 | 53 | 46 | 657 | 751 | 747 | 818 |
Hispanic or Latino | 207 | 226 | 199 | 193 | 18 | 8 | 210 | 227 | 189 | 181 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 297 | 331 | 308 | 303 | 29 | 33 | 391 | 463 | 501 | 552 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
Asian | 125 | 142 | 130 | 129 | 7 | 5 | 126 | 129 | 142 | 176 |
Black or African American | 11 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 43 | 46 | 49 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
White | 131 | 155 | 143 | 145 | 19 | 17 | 200 | 264 | 272 | 295 |
More than one race | 27 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 29 | 22 | 29 | 27 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 22 | 34 | 33 | 36 | 6 | 5 | 56 | 61 | 57 | 85 |
Temporary visa holders | 55 | 74 | 55 | 47 | 3 | 7 | 125 | 142 | 91 | 44 |
Science and engineering | 538 | 632 | 559 | 537 | 54 | 53 | 760 | 864 | 807 | 838 |
Science | 361 | 409 | 365 | 362 | 49 | 43 | 562 | 659 | 604 | 643 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 72 | 68 | 68 | 65 | 1 | 3 | 76 | 85 | 89 | 90 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 22 | 17 | 15 | 16 |
Computer and information sciences | 58 | 67 | 39 | 49 | 9 | 9 | 63 | 55 | 53 | 70 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 17 | 17 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 22 | 27 | 23 |
Mathematics and statistics | 73 | 91 | 96 | 97 | 26 | 13 | 87 | 103 | 102 | 113 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 10 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 21 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 16 | 14 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 7 | 10 | 8 |
Physical sciences | 45 | 54 | 53 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 90 | 78 | 65 |
Social sciences | 70 | 78 | 60 | 73 | 11 | 12 | 227 | 259 | 230 | 258 |
Engineering | 177 | 223 | 194 | 175 | 5 | 10 | 198 | 205 | 203 | 195 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 37 | 40 | 43 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 9 | 19 | 24 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 17 | 24 | 21 | 5 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 26 | 36 | 30 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 28 | 32 | 48 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 46 | 43 | 28 | 33 | 3 | 6 | 70 | 104 | 92 | 70 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 39 | 57 | 55 | 62 | 1 | 1 | 52 | 42 | 33 | 23 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 12 | 23 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 22 | 27 | 30 |
Health | 43 | 33 | 36 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 29 | 31 | 24 |
Clinical medicine | 18 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 4 |
Other health | 25 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 20 |
NOTE:
- . = 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).
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All surveyed fields | 25 | 24 | 20 | 18 | 52 | 58 | 49 | 49 | 39 | 29 |
Science and engineering | 25 | 24 | 20 | 18 | 52 | 58 | 31 | 33 | 32 | 23 |
Science | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 22 | 25 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 10 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Social sciences | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
Engineering | 16 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 30 | 33 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 13 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 23 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 6 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 6 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 6 |
NOTE:
- . = 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).
Type and primary source of support | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All types and sources of support | 888 | 769 | 661 | 588 | 1,127 | 1,178 | 999 | 961 | 957 | 791 |
Fellowships | 12 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 33 | 41 | 20 | 18 | 9 | 9 |
Federal | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 5 |
Institutional | 10 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 30 | 37 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Research assistantships | 38 | 32 | 29 | 26 | 73 | 77 | 29 | 34 | 28 | 20 |
Federal | 18 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 42 | 45 | 21 | 25 | 24 | 16 |
Institutional | 17 | 13 | 17 | 15 | 30 | 31 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
Nonfederal | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Teaching assistantships | 69 | 60 | 69 | 68 | 143 | 151 | 96 | 87 | 74 | 70 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 69 | 60 | 69 | 68 | 143 | 151 | 96 | 87 | 74 | 70 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other types of support | 769 | 659 | 553 | 488 | 878 | 909 | 854 | 822 | 846 | 692 |
Federal | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 8 |
Institutional | 84 | 74 | 60 | 61 | 92 | 98 | 47 | 33 | 11 | 11 |
Nonfederal | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
Personal resources | 678 | 579 | 485 | 420 | 775 | 798 | 790 | 774 | 823 | 670 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Science and engineering | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Science | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = 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).
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All surveyed fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Science and engineering | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Science | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = 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).
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 17,807 | 15,134 | 16,684 | 18,664 | 22,880 | 18,805 | 16,390 | 8,830 | 10,097 | 12,796 | ||||||||||
Science | 12,110 | 9,636 | 11,167 | 13,236 | 13,258 | 14,724 | 12,597 | 7,154 | 7,610 | 9,499 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 390 | 271 | 102 | 74 | 71 | 68 | 101 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 399 | 226 | 514 | 125 | 209 | 276 | 437 | 435 | 242 | 451 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 399 | 226 | 514 | 125 | 209 | 276 | 437 | 435 | 242 | 451 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 4,858 | 3,700 | 4,816 | 5,335 | 5,238 | 3,130 | 3,208 | 2,916 | 3,281 | 4,673 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 1,834 | 1,201 | 2,110 | 2,389 | 2,714 | 1,535 | 1,211 | 1,092 | 1,650 | 2,316 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 3,023 | 2,499 | 2,704 | 2,873 | 2,524 | 1,595 | 1,997 | 0 | 7 | 123 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 2 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,824 | 1,624 | 2,234 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 369 | 446 | 691 | 621 | 574 | 581 | 617 | 78 | 39 | 38 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 3,494 | 2,723 | 2,670 | 4,363 | 4,445 | 3,808 | 2,722 | 1,321 | 1,926 | 1,544 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 284 | 535 | 194 | 210 | 167 | 219 | 201 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 3,191 | 2,188 | 2,474 | 3,453 | 3,819 | 3,230 | 2,271 | 1,027 | 1,568 | 1,008 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 1 | 0 | 2 | 677 | 441 | 356 | 203 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 18 | 3 | 47 | 294 | 358 | 536 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 1,974 | 1,431 | 1,465 | 1,660 | 1,754 | 3,128 | 2,573 | 1,995 | 1,860 | 2,387 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 574 | 645 | 625 | 723 | 646 | 329 | 223 | 146 | 86 | 169 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 74 | 80 | 36 | 93 | 69 | 35 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 40 | 32 | 2 | 15 | 53 | 29 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 40 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 14 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 53 | 50 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 2 | 107 | 47 | 20 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 56 | 32 | 56 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 444 | 422 | 529 | 595 | 506 | 251 | 149 | 34 | 49 | 73 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 52 | 194 | 284 | 335 | 321 | 3,404 | 2,716 | 263 | 176 | 237 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 3,671 | 4,574 | 4,733 | 4,223 | 5,150 | 2,269 | 1,578 | 954 | 2,136 | 2,995 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 34 | 154 | 59 | 440 | 21 | 257 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 917 | 861 | 712 | 382 | 451 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 722 | 532 | 357 | 329 | 386 | 75 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 0 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 812 | 652 | 1,127 | 1,224 | 1,380 | 582 | 504 | 70 | 89 | 42 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 149 | 1,083 | 877 | 769 | 716 | 225 | 66 | 167 | 43 | 23 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 561 | 593 | 913 | 415 | 1,256 | 489 | 9 | 132 | 1,358 | 991 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 476 | 699 | 688 | 583 | 934 | 641 | 956 | 573 | 638 | 1,939 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 2,026 | 924 | 784 | 1,205 | 4,472 | 1,812 | 2,215 | 722 | 351 | 302 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 4 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 183 | 53 | 70 | 57 | 53 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 12 | ||||||||||
Education | 444 | 312 | 270 | 616 | 2,945 | 1,031 | 883 | 516 | 138 | 81 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 535 | 199 | 153 | 143 | 179 | 258 | 535 | 47 | 21 | 46 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 569 | 163 | 164 | 74 | 69 | 64 | 71 | 109 | 178 | 133 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 80 | 106 | 39 | 68 | 75 | 168 | 168 | 50 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 211 | 83 | 79 | 239 | 1,132 | 273 | 548 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Field | All R&D expenditures | Federal government | State and local government | Institution funds | Business | Nonprofit organizations | All other sources | |||||||
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All R&D fields | 17,807 | 11,739 | 572 | 2,980 | 534 | 837 | 1,145 | |||||||
Science | 12,110 | 8,951 | 300 | 1,787 | 162 | 357 | 553 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 390 | 178 | 0 | 75 | 0 | 1 | 136 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 399 | 370 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 399 | 370 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 4,858 | 3,212 | 264 | 789 | 1 | 296 | 296 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 1,834 | 1,306 | 88 | 350 | 0 | 79 | 11 | |||||||
Health sciences | 3,023 | 1,905 | 176 | 439 | 1 | 217 | 285 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 369 | 349 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 3,494 | 2,698 | 18 | 605 | 68 | 59 | 46 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 284 | 277 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
Chemistry | 3,191 | 2,420 | 0 | 603 | 68 | 59 | 41 | |||||||
Materials science | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 1,974 | 1,751 | 0 | 146 | 27 | 0 | 50 | |||||||
Social sciences | 574 | 393 | 0 | 90 | 66 | 0 | 25 | |||||||
Anthropology | 74 | 60 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 40 | 39 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 444 | 294 | 0 | 59 | 66 | 0 | 25 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 52 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 3,671 | 2,181 | 183 | 576 | 320 | 46 | 365 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 34 | 7 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 917 | 655 | 139 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 34 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 722 | 592 | 0 | 89 | 41 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 812 | 416 | 34 | 136 | 71 | 0 | 155 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 149 | 84 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 46 | 0 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 561 | 401 | 1 | 42 | 117 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 476 | 26 | 0 | 183 | 91 | 0 | 176 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 2,026 | 607 | 89 | 617 | 52 | 434 | 227 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 183 | 168 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 444 | 133 | 0 | 139 | 0 | 0 | 172 | |||||||
Humanities | 535 | 306 | 89 | 109 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 569 | 0 | 0 | 125 | 0 | 434 | 10 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 80 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 211 | 0 | 0 | 145 | 52 | 0 | 14 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Source of funds | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 11,739 | 11,178 | 12,014 | 13,579 | 14,021 | 13,085 | 11,176 | 6,198 | 7,879 | 10,701 | ||||||||||
DOD | 1,059 | 1,686 | 674 | 140 | 452 | 144 | 159 | 112 | 366 | 1,915 | ||||||||||
DOE | 123 | 158 | 221 | 243 | 617 | 761 | 476 | 448 | 324 | 383 | ||||||||||
HHS | 6,369 | 6,608 | 8,232 | 9,460 | 9,052 | 8,624 | 7,211 | 2,705 | 3,691 | 3,971 | ||||||||||
NASA | 34 | 35 | 262 | 116 | 219 | 392 | 508 | 659 | 1,010 | 1,313 | ||||||||||
NSF | 2,200 | 1,561 | 1,277 | 811 | 1,141 | 1,567 | 1,188 | 1,318 | 1,726 | 1,849 | ||||||||||
USDA | 374 | 214 | 87 | 76 | 56 | 30 | 539 | 486 | 688 | 920 | ||||||||||
Other | 1,580 | 916 | 1,261 | 2,733 | 2,484 | 1,567 | 1,095 | 470 | 74 | 350 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Year | All personnel | Principal investigators | Other personnel | Postdocs | |||
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2022 | . | . | . | . | |||
2021 | . | . | . | . | |||
2020 | . | . | . | . | |||
2019 | 744 | 106 | 638 | . | |||
2018 | 874 | 152 | 722 | . | |||
2017 | 893 | 156 | 737 | . | |||
2016 | 567 | 109 | 458 | . |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Field | 2021 | 2019 | 2017 | 2015 | 2013 |
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All research space | 1,097 | 1,053 | 1,096 | 863 | 791 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 320 | 304 | 312 | 216 | 200 |
Computer and information sciences | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 11 |
Engineering | 172 | 174 | 172 | 156 | 131 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 13 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 2 |
Health sciences | 321 | 294 | 321 | 246 | 268 |
Mathematics and statistics | 7 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
Natural resources and conservation | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | . |
Physical sciences | 152 | 153 | 152 | 152 | 130 |
Psychology | 65 | 61 | 65 | 29 | 23 |
Social sciences | 33 | 31 | 33 | 24 | 20 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Field | Planned to start in FY 2022 or FY 2023 | Started in FY 2020 or FY 2021 | Started in FY 2018 or FY 2019 | Started in FY 2016 or FY 2017 | Started in FY 2014 or FY 2015 |
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All research space | 83,000 | . | . | . | . |
Health sciences | 83,000 | . | . | . | . |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Field | Planned to start in FY 2022 or FY 2023 | Started in FY 2020 or FY 2021 | Started in FY 2018 or FY 2019 | Started in FY 2016 or FY 2017 | Started in FY 2014 or FY 2015 |
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All research space | 80,751 | 3,700 | 33,122 | 3,482 | 12,856 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,250 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 4,741 | 1,200 | 11,519 | 0 | 1,500 |
Computer and information sciences | 325 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 1,624 | 0 | 625 | 2,500 | 3,276 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 875 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,675 |
Health sciences | 70,598 | 2,500 | 11,517 | 632 | 2,770 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 1,262 | 0 | 0 | 350 | 385 |
Psychology | 650 | 0 | 5,962 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 675 | 0 | 3,500 | 0 | 0 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.