Rankings

Data year	Earned doctorates			Full-time graduate students						Total R&D expenditures
	Rank	Percentile	Institutions ranked	Rank	Percentile	Institutions ranked	Rank	Percentile	Institutions ranked	Rank	Percentile	Institutions ranked
2021				179	26.5	691
2020				175	25.8	697
2019				196	28.8	696
2018				188	27.6	698
2017				183	27.4	684
2016				341	49.4	697
2015				208	30.6	693
2014				201	29.8	688
2013				216	39.4	555
2012				218	39.8	555

Data

Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health, by selected characteristics: 2021–12

All races	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All full-time students	744	678	624	626	669	232	586	631	529	501
Male	462	426	395	395	429	170	363	411	347	320
Female	282	252	229	231	240	62	223	220	182	181
U.S. citizens and permanent residents	593	560	502	513	542	186	498	536	458	425
Hispanic or Latino	33	24	17	23	18	4	9	12	6	9
Not Hispanic or Latino	549	529	480	481	511	177	442	479	449	399
American Indian or Alaska Native	8	4	3	5	9	1	2	3	2	3
Asian	6	8	7	6	7	3	3	16	17	5
Black or African American	3	0	0	0	1	1	3	4	5	1
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
White	512	493	451	449	475	166	427	446	423	389
More than one race	20	24	19	21	19	6	6	10	2	1
Unknown ethnicity and race	11	7	5	9	13	5	47	45	3	17
Temporary visa holders	151	118	122	113	127	46	88	95	71	76
Science and engineering	744	678	624	626	669	232	586	631	515	487
Science	569	526	481	486	519	149	447	490	390	378
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	62	46	45	48	60	20	96	105	56	66
Biological and biomedical sciences	86	87	64	70	95	14	84	80	73	55
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	41	48	45	35	35	19	27	41	24	18
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	38	32	39	36	32	14	32	43	13	21
Mathematics and statistics	67	62	58	66	79	8	65	78	73	70
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	69	85	47	57	60	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	3	7	4	17	.
Physical sciences	172	134	155	147	132	57	109	113	126	126
Psychology	18	16	14	12	12	7	12	12	0	11
Social sciences	16	16	14	15	14	7	15	14	8	11
Engineering	175	152	143	140	150	83	139	141	125	109
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	29	14	28	33	37	13	23	31	22	30
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	41	28	33	36	37	17	44	32	31	21
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	38	25	19	19	24	29	29	29	31	18
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	9	.	.	.	24	43	49	41	40
Mechanical engineering	67	23	63	52	52	.	.	.	.	.
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	.	53	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.
Health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	14	14
Clinical medicine	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	14	14

Part-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health, by selected characteristics: 2021–12

All races	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All part-time students	159	153	162	151	129	559	156	175	193	187
Male	82	80	92	96	77	334	83	108	120	124
Female	77	73	70	55	52	225	73	67	73	63
U.S. citizens and permanent residents	148	144	150	143	119	487	147	167	181	169
Hispanic or Latino	5	7	4	2	1	12	4	5	1	0
Not Hispanic or Latino	141	134	141	136	113	463	140	141	165	153
American Indian or Alaska Native	2	2	3	2	1	6	3	1	4	3
Asian	3	1	2	2	2	6	4	4	2	3
Black or African American	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	2
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
White	132	127	130	126	106	430	81	130	157	144
More than one race	4	4	6	5	4	18	51	6	1	1
Unknown ethnicity and race	2	3	5	5	5	12	3	21	15	16
Temporary visa holders	11	9	12	8	10	72	9	8	12	18
Science and engineering	159	153	162	151	129	559	156	175	193	187
Science	133	132	140	132	110	466	142	158	169	157
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	7	11	8	11	6	142	60	23	48	41
Biological and biomedical sciences	16	7	26	28	23	91	6	17	7	20
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	3	7	7	7	9	27	8	10	24	25
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	9	10	10	10	11	36	16	57	42	44
Mathematics and statistics	30	29	36	32	23	77	30	23	10	13
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	62	62	47	35	32	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	4	0	0	10	.
Physical sciences	6	5	6	7	6	75	20	24	11	5
Psychology	0	0	0	1	0	5	1	0	11	0
Social sciences	0	1	0	1	0	9	1	4	6	9
Engineering	26	21	22	19	19	93	14	17	24	30
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	6	1	3	3	3	32	1	4	10	0
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	5	4	3	2	3	33	0	4	2	17
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	4	3	4	9	4	1	4	3	6	4
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	2	.	.	.	27	9	6	6	9
Mechanical engineering	11	4	12	5	9	.	.	.	.	.
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	.	7	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.
Health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0	0
Clinical medicine	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0	0

Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health receiving primary support from federal sources, by field: 2021–12

Field	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All surveyed fields	283	238	194	175	190	57	201	182	176	139
Science and engineering	283	238	194	175	190	57	201	182	171	135
Science	215	185	147	137	164	35	161	141	140	91
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	29	12	9	11	21	5	37	17	14	14
Biological and biomedical sciences	50	46	34	41	57	2	52	51	40	23
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	13	9	11	7	9	4	7	8	4	4
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	15	13	11	4	8	3	5	10	13	6
Mathematics and statistics	14	16	15	13	12	2	8	5	4	3
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	18	25	11	10	10	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	3	5	3	4	.
Physical sciences	75	61	52	51	45	15	47	46	61	41
Psychology	1	3	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Social sciences	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
Engineering	68	53	47	38	26	22	40	41	31	44
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	17	7	18	17	13	1	10	14	7	19
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	8	2	5	6	4	3	5	2	2	2
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	20	15	11	4	4	14	15	14	15	7
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	0	.	.	.	4	10	11	7	16
Mechanical engineering	23	6	13	11	5	.	.	.	.	.
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	.	23	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.
Health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	5	4
Clinical medicine	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	5	4

Full-time graduate students in science, engineering, and health, by type and primary source of support: 2021–12

Type and primary source of support	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All types and sources of support	744	678	624	626	669	232	586	631	529	501
Fellowships	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	14	15	19
Federal	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	10	10	8
Institutional	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	4	0	3
Nonfederal	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	8
Research assistantships	339	302	274	257	270	79	240	243	215	211
Federal	249	205	174	159	172	52	192	172	157	118
Institutional	90	97	100	98	98	27	34	55	46	65
Nonfederal	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	16	12	28
Teaching assistantships	294	221	267	288	294	100	270	227	205	212
Federal	33	5	19	16	17	3	0	0	0	3
Institutional	261	216	248	272	277	97	270	227	205	207
Nonfederal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Other types of support	111	155	83	81	105	53	55	147	94	59
Federal	1	28	1	0	1	2	0	0	9	10
Institutional	1	4	0	1	0	0	21	0	1	17
Nonfederal	0	6	0	1	0	0	3	3	2	4
Personal resources	109	117	82	79	104	51	31	144	82	28

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	54	57	41	48	47	47	51	38	38	38
Science	45	51	36	42	40	39	45	33	27	25
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	11	7	5	6	7	11	10	4	3	5
Biological and biomedical sciences	11	24	12	15	15	11	18	11	6	5
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	1	1	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	1	3	5	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	5	4	4	0	.
Physical sciences	18	17	16	16	12	11	8	11	16	15
Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Social sciences	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	9	6	5	6	7	8	6	5	11	13
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	3	3	3	4	6	5	0	2	4	1
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	1	2	1	1	0	2	3	2	7	11
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	4	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	0	1
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	0	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	1	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	.	0	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.
Health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	4	3
Clinical medicine	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	4	3

Federally supported science, engineering, and health postdoctorates, by field: 2021–12

Field	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012
All surveyed fields	42	41	29	37	33	33	44	28	30	32
Science and engineering	42	41	29	37	33	33	44	28	27	30
Science	32	35	24	32	28	29	39	26	21	21
Agricultural and veterinary sciences	9	6	3	5	5	7	9	2	3	4
Biological and biomedical sciences	8	16	8	12	10	10	14	8	5	5
Communication	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Computer and information sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	1	1	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	0
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	1	2	4	.	.	.	.	.
Neurobiology and neuroscience	.	.	.	.	.	2	3	3	0	.
Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Physical sciences	13	12	10	11	8	9	8	10	11	12
Social sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Engineering	10	6	5	5	5	4	5	2	6	9
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering	3	3	3	3	4	1	0	0	4	0
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering	2	2	1	1	0	2	2	1	2	8
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering	4	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	0	1
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research	.	0	.	.	.	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanical engineering	1	0	0	0	0	.	.	.	.	.
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields	.	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.	.
Other engineering	.	0	.	.	.	.	0	.	.	.
Health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	3	2
Clinical medicine	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
Other health	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	3	2