New Mexico State U.
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 | 160 | 76.8 | 680 | 163 | 82 | 890 | ||||||
2021 | 156 | 77.8 | 691 | 137 | 76.9 | 583 | 161 | 82.5 | 907 | |||
2020 | 151 | 78.7 | 697 | 161 | 82.7 | 915 | ||||||
2019 | 161 | 77.2 | 696 | 123 | 79.5 | 589 | 160 | 82.7 | 913 | |||
2018 | 162 | 77.1 | 698 | 160 | 82.7 | 910 | ||||||
2017 | 152 | 78.1 | 684 | 128 | 78.1 | 575 | 151 | 83.4 | 897 | |||
2016 | 167 | 76.4 | 697 | 145 | 84 | 895 | ||||||
2015 | 169 | 76 | 693 | 81 | 86.1 | 570 | 133 | 85.4 | 897 | |||
2014 | 161 | 76.9 | 688 | 129 | 85.7 | 887 | ||||||
2013 | 152 | 73 | 555 | 136 | 77.2 | 588 | 126 | 86 | 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 | 923 | 890 | 867 | 817 | 822 | 875 | 870 | 872 | 912 | 937 |
Male | 482 | 437 | 448 | 448 | 448 | 508 | 514 | 515 | 556 | 537 |
Female | 441 | 453 | 419 | 369 | 374 | 367 | 356 | 357 | 356 | 400 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 586 | 602 | 561 | 526 | 481 | 519 | 508 | 485 | 495 | 548 |
Hispanic or Latino | 247 | 256 | 216 | 190 | 177 | 183 | 164 | 155 | 151 | 180 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 333 | 341 | 340 | 324 | 295 | 325 | 325 | 308 | 314 | 323 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 17 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
Asian | 22 | 19 | 18 | 40 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 12 |
Black or African American | 11 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 12 | 19 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 259 | 273 | 272 | 237 | 242 | 260 | 266 | 267 | 266 | 274 |
More than one race | 23 | 16 | 22 | 23 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 9 | 12 | 10 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 6 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 19 | 22 | 30 | 45 |
Temporary visa holders | 337 | 288 | 306 | 291 | 341 | 356 | 362 | 387 | 417 | 389 |
Science and engineering | 820 | 771 | 801 | 776 | 800 | 850 | 839 | 841 | 886 | 909 |
Science | 617 | 587 | 591 | 561 | 583 | 613 | 615 | 608 | 617 | 641 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 65 | 70 | 81 | 76 | 83 | 86 | 120 | 107 | 93 | 99 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 62 | 63 | 65 | 72 | 70 | 65 | 63 | 65 | 60 | 74 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 13 | 12 | 13 | 23 |
Computer and information sciences | 100 | 84 | 70 | 75 | 65 | 77 | 67 | 80 | 85 | 60 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 31 | 30 | 25 | 32 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 29 | 28 | 34 | 30 | 32 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 11 |
Mathematics and statistics | 40 | 42 | 43 | 45 | 47 | 48 | 48 | 41 | 45 | 46 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 15 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 17 | 35 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 95 | 95 | 104 | 48 | 40 | 47 | 48 | 44 | 51 | 49 |
Physical sciences | 97 | 92 | 89 | 87 | 88 | 91 | 91 | 97 | 102 | 91 |
Social sciences | 114 | 97 | 96 | 121 | 141 | 152 | 122 | 121 | 133 | 156 |
Engineering | 203 | 184 | 210 | 215 | 217 | 237 | 224 | 233 | 269 | 268 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 12 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 11 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 18 | 23 | 29 | 34 | 29 | 35 | 31 | 33 | 46 | 49 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 53 | 40 | 49 | 44 | 53 | 57 | 54 | 47 | 58 | 51 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 58 | 51 | 56 | 53 | 58 | 69 | 72 | 81 | 96 | 98 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 23 | 19 | 29 | 31 | 26 | 33 | 39 | 36 | 31 | 35 |
Mechanical engineering | 39 | 41 | 39 | 44 | 43 | 37 | 25 | 28 | 31 | 24 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | . | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 |
Health | 103 | 119 | 66 | 41 | 22 | 25 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 28 |
Clinical medicine | 52 | 69 | 59 | 33 | 18 | 20 | 29 | 29 | 26 | 28 |
Other health | 51 | 50 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 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).
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All part-time students | 502 | 524 | 470 | 430 | 399 | 426 | 461 | 501 | 500 | 471 |
Male | 255 | 257 | 229 | 219 | 218 | 234 | 241 | 276 | 273 | 262 |
Female | 247 | 267 | 241 | 211 | 181 | 192 | 220 | 225 | 227 | 209 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 456 | 462 | 414 | 390 | 362 | 386 | 403 | 422 | 449 | 424 |
Hispanic or Latino | 163 | 168 | 130 | 132 | 121 | 124 | 124 | 113 | 141 | 127 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 287 | 289 | 274 | 249 | 232 | 243 | 246 | 280 | 272 | 254 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 12 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 10 |
Asian | 18 | 13 | 15 | 23 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 7 |
Black or African American | 22 | 23 | 24 | 20 | 13 | 19 | 20 | 27 | 27 | 17 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
White | 215 | 220 | 211 | 187 | 183 | 193 | 195 | 229 | 218 | 215 |
More than one race | 18 | 17 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 6 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 19 | 33 | 29 | 36 | 43 |
Temporary visa holders | 46 | 62 | 56 | 40 | 37 | 40 | 58 | 79 | 51 | 47 |
Science and engineering | 421 | 419 | 374 | 356 | 350 | 362 | 400 | 437 | 437 | 416 |
Science | 293 | 287 | 250 | 227 | 198 | 212 | 237 | 245 | 262 | 247 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 24 | 19 | 21 | 24 | 18 | 14 | 42 | 39 | 29 | 27 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 12 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 15 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
Computer and information sciences | 88 | 58 | 27 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 10 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 5 | 6 | 10 | 10 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 16 | 17 | 11 | 17 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 |
Mathematics and statistics | 4 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 10 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 15 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 20 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 29 | 35 | 50 | 18 | 13 | 23 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 14 |
Physical sciences | 12 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 10 |
Social sciences | 93 | 104 | 102 | 119 | 107 | 115 | 130 | 141 | 144 | 146 |
Engineering | 128 | 132 | 124 | 129 | 152 | 150 | 163 | 192 | 175 | 169 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 5 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 4 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 22 | 18 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 21 | 19 | 16 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 33 | 39 | 35 | 38 | 41 | 46 | 43 | 49 | 44 | 26 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 48 | 49 | 57 | 62 | 79 | 82 | 87 | 96 | 89 | 109 |
Mechanical engineering | 13 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 11 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | . | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 |
Health | 81 | 105 | 96 | 74 | 49 | 64 | 61 | 64 | 63 | 55 |
Clinical medicine | 78 | 99 | 88 | 63 | 38 | 44 | 39 | 36 | 31 | 27 |
Other health | 3 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 22 | 28 | 32 | 28 |
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 | 197 | 219 | 209 | 170 | 137 | 161 | 49 | 113 | 163 | 127 |
Science and engineering | 191 | 213 | 204 | 170 | 135 | 157 | 48 | 112 | 162 | 127 |
Science | 141 | 153 | 138 | 110 | 95 | 107 | 36 | 66 | 87 | 61 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 25 | 24 | 25 | 22 | 23 | 17 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 14 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 12 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 7 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 31 | 23 | 31 | 22 | 10 | 19 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 5 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 11 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 18 | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 29 | 38 | 31 | 23 | 16 | 24 | 9 | 19 | 32 | 24 |
Psychology | 15 | 26 | 24 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 5 |
Social sciences | 13 | 16 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 |
Engineering | 50 | 60 | 66 | 60 | 40 | 50 | 12 | 46 | 75 | 66 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 4 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 12 | 28 | 25 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 11 | 8 | 16 | 10 | 15 | 16 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 4 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 17 | 22 | 19 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 27 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Mechanical engineering | 10 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 5 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | . | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 |
Health | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Other health | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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).
Type and primary source of support | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All types and sources of support | 923 | 890 | 867 | 817 | 822 | 875 | 870 | 872 | 912 | 937 |
Fellowships | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Federal | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Institutional | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Research assistantships | 314 | 306 | 285 | 261 | 245 | 282 | 214 | 157 | 197 | 155 |
Federal | 179 | 184 | 174 | 159 | 126 | 143 | 40 | 90 | 132 | 107 |
Institutional | 118 | 102 | 89 | 83 | 110 | 124 | 174 | 34 | 61 | 38 |
Nonfederal | 17 | 20 | 22 | 19 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 33 | 4 | 10 |
Teaching assistantships | 327 | 316 | 322 | 339 | 331 | 314 | 329 | 289 | 256 | 279 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 327 | 316 | 322 | 339 | 331 | 314 | 329 | 289 | 256 | 279 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other types of support | 279 | 262 | 253 | 213 | 243 | 270 | 322 | 424 | 458 | 502 |
Federal | 15 | 30 | 28 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 23 | 31 | 19 |
Institutional | 74 | 68 | 49 | 61 | 69 | 69 | 73 | 192 | 193 | 205 |
Nonfederal | 6 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Personal resources | 184 | 157 | 168 | 142 | 164 | 191 | 233 | 206 | 232 | 276 |
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 |
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Science and engineering | 47 | 44 | 38 | 29 | 26 | 24 | 17 | 24 | 28 | 24 |
Science | 37 | 35 | 28 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 14 | 21 | 25 | 20 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 15 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 7 |
Social sciences | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | . | 1 | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | 1 | 1 |
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 | 34 | 32 | 28 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 20 | 21 | 19 |
Science and engineering | 34 | 32 | 28 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 20 | 21 | 19 |
Science | 25 | 24 | 21 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 18 | 15 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 10 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 4 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 6 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Social sciences | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | . | 1 | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | 1 | 1 |
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 | 121,472 | 110,580 | 107,275 | 101,457 | 96,270 | 102,218 | 106,282 | 132,377 | 134,262 | 142,365 | ||||||||||
Science | 79,697 | 79,636 | 80,787 | 74,141 | 70,926 | 73,028 | 63,650 | 62,466 | 58,675 | 58,951 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 4,103 | 4,043 | 4,539 | 2,705 | 2,124 | 1,703 | 1,838 | 1,792 | 2,704 | 1,151 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 4,830 | 5,067 | 5,381 | 3,908 | 4,939 | 3,856 | 3,192 | 1,800 | 2,872 | 1,655 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 189 | 203 | 135 | 220 | 51 | 118 | 168 | 86 | 31 | 23 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,861 | 2,165 | 2,500 | 1,715 | 1,696 | 1,218 | 1,118 | 559 | 1,506 | 598 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 2,780 | 2,699 | 2,746 | 1,973 | 3,192 | 2,520 | 1,906 | 1,155 | 1,335 | 1,034 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 53,389 | 48,808 | 43,340 | 40,821 | 37,074 | 35,258 | 39,139 | 38,212 | 36,175 | 33,467 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 32,727 | 32,281 | 31,672 | 31,352 | 28,595 | 26,804 | 30,424 | 30,404 | 28,929 | 27,863 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 18,584 | 15,045 | 9,867 | 7,688 | 7,214 | 7,824 | 8,293 | 7,500 | 6,874 | 5,595 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 903 | 492 | 449 | 628 | 626 | 418 | 112 | 86 | 53 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 159 | 10 | 28 | 49 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,016 | 980 | 1,324 | 1,104 | 625 | 206 | 310 | 222 | 319 | 9 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 164 | 116 | 188 | 41 | 74 | 223 | 185 | 274 | 1,080 | 1,066 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 13,339 | 20,108 | 26,366 | 25,535 | 25,776 | 30,701 | 18,225 | 16,454 | 12,045 | 16,632 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 7,373 | 7,012 | 7,548 | 6,817 | 7,637 | 8,631 | 6,457 | 6,405 | 6,450 | 7,149 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 2,181 | 2,141 | 5,296 | 5,931 | 6,534 | 8,112 | 6,000 | 7,422 | 3,508 | 7,084 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 1,792 | 1,675 | 1,386 | 1,762 | 1,656 | 1,999 | 2,102 | 2,483 | 1,973 | 2,156 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,993 | 9,280 | 12,136 | 11,025 | 9,949 | 11,948 | 3,666 | 144 | 114 | 243 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 480 | 422 | 276 | 268 | 251 | 205 | 149 | 115 | 112 | 271 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 679 | 570 | 469 | 653 | 504 | 170 | 292 | 106 | 331 | 133 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 191 | 81 | 107 | 40 | 12 | 51 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 380 | 400 | 262 | 471 | 357 | 15 | 183 | 1 | 177 | 35 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 68 | 73 | 88 | 124 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 36 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 68 | 0 | 25 | 61 | 4 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 39 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 47 | 36 | 47 | 76 | 81 | 58 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 2,713 | 502 | 228 | 210 | 184 | 912 | 630 | 3,713 | 3,356 | 4,576 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 40,367 | 29,884 | 25,030 | 25,892 | 23,067 | 26,947 | 40,221 | 64,534 | 70,449 | 77,303 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 7,551 | 5,310 | 5,666 | 7,650 | 7,113 | 9,989 | 7,593 | 7,437 | 8,080 | 8,698 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 223 | 931 | 131 | 160 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 1,488 | 1,564 | 1,761 | 2,171 | 1,962 | 1,870 | 1,667 | 1,251 | 1,713 | 4,360 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 6,165 | 4,336 | 3,995 | 3,735 | 2,877 | 3,318 | 3,118 | 2,945 | 2,563 | 2,331 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 12,731 | 6,947 | 2,956 | 2,279 | 1,649 | 1,795 | 2,334 | 2,880 | 4,298 | 5,344 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 99 | 70 | 154 | 47 | 24 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 2,358 | 2,015 | 1,600 | 1,133 | 632 | 492 | 736 | 1,181 | 1,138 | 1,732 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 122 | 120 | 145 | 165 | 106 | 166 | 166 | 374 | 189 | 511 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 9,853 | 9,513 | 8,752 | 8,707 | 8,703 | 9,277 | 24,379 | 47,535 | 52,337 | 54,167 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 1,408 | 1,060 | 1,458 | 1,424 | 2,277 | 2,243 | 2,411 | 5,377 | 5,138 | 6,111 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 141 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 67 | 17 | 35 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 31 | 38 | 25 | 24 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 17 | 25 | 30 | ||||||||||
Education | 499 | 723 | 1,199 | 1,101 | 766 | 1,103 | 1,007 | 726 | 443 | 338 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 156 | 9 | 25 | 134 | 3 | 27 | 28 | 24 | 26 | 17 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 36 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 89 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 39 | 25 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 506 | 167 | 195 | 161 | 1,492 | 1,085 | 1,264 | 4,540 | 4,627 | 5,688 |
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 | 121,472 | 71,718 | 23,036 | 16,167 | 2,451 | 2,366 | 5,734 | |||||||
Science | 79,697 | 41,654 | 21,955 | 10,545 | 2,063 | 2,234 | 1,246 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 4,103 | 3,334 | 0 | 713 | 56 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 4,830 | 3,216 | 984 | 460 | 8 | 0 | 162 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 189 | 10 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 148 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,861 | 779 | 915 | 153 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 2,780 | 2,427 | 53 | 292 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 53,389 | 24,375 | 20,805 | 5,790 | 1,271 | 86 | 1,062 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 32,727 | 6,869 | 20,048 | 3,626 | 1,199 | 35 | 950 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 18,584 | 16,255 | 165 | 1,979 | 72 | 1 | 112 | |||||||
Health sciences | 903 | 385 | 397 | 85 | 0 | 36 | 0 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 159 | 117 | 30 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,016 | 749 | 165 | 88 | 0 | 14 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 164 | 138 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 13,339 | 7,819 | 158 | 3,047 | 187 | 2,127 | 1 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 7,373 | 3,873 | 102 | 1,282 | 5 | 2,111 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 2,181 | 783 | 56 | 1,208 | 118 | 16 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 1,792 | 1,355 | 0 | 373 | 64 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,993 | 1,808 | 0 | 184 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Psychology | 480 | 140 | 0 | 106 | 233 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Social sciences | 679 | 530 | 6 | 102 | 20 | 1 | 20 | |||||||
Anthropology | 191 | 152 | 6 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 380 | 322 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |||||||
Political science and government | 68 | 55 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 39 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 20 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 2,713 | 2,102 | 2 | 301 | 288 | 20 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 40,367 | 29,723 | 1,081 | 4,828 | 387 | 94 | 4,254 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 7,551 | 6,003 | 252 | 1,080 | 215 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 1,488 | 1,013 | 19 | 187 | 43 | 0 | 226 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 6,165 | 4,783 | 342 | 954 | 59 | 18 | 9 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 12,731 | 11,422 | 5 | 1,277 | 27 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 99 | 90 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 2,358 | 1,897 | 0 | 452 | 6 | 0 | 3 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 122 | 0 | 110 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 9,853 | 4,515 | 353 | 860 | 37 | 75 | 4,013 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 1,408 | 341 | 0 | 794 | 1 | 38 | 234 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 141 | 27 | 0 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 31 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 499 | 221 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 5 | 234 | |||||||
Humanities | 156 | 0 | 0 | 156 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 36 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 39 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 506 | 93 | 0 | 413 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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 | 71,718 | 64,699 | 60,971 | 58,022 | 54,009 | 59,885 | 62,292 | 78,903 | 80,599 | 86,806 | ||||||||||
DOD | 22,026 | 20,082 | 19,336 | 19,487 | 18,222 | 24,804 | 29,063 | 23,464 | 19,948 | 18,368 | ||||||||||
DOE | 7,496 | 7,214 | 6,159 | 5,941 | 4,970 | 4,949 | 5,000 | 5,909 | 5,615 | 7,665 | ||||||||||
HHS | 9,614 | 8,028 | 7,544 | 7,312 | 7,826 | 8,588 | 7,210 | 8,011 | 5,581 | 6,600 | ||||||||||
NASA | 4,873 | 3,974 | 4,170 | 4,659 | 4,532 | 3,801 | 3,860 | 24,485 | 32,008 | 35,818 | ||||||||||
NSF | 12,557 | 12,458 | 11,316 | 9,742 | 9,069 | 8,994 | 8,146 | 8,103 | 7,783 | 9,721 | ||||||||||
USDA | 9,730 | 9,378 | 9,204 | 7,496 | 6,474 | 6,019 | 6,310 | 6,319 | 5,085 | 5,226 | ||||||||||
Other | 5,422 | 3,565 | 3,242 | 3,385 | 2,916 | 2,730 | 2,703 | 2,612 | 4,579 | 3,408 |
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 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | . | . | . | . | |||
2021 | . | . | . | . | |||
2020 | . | . | . | . | |||
2019 | 1,541 | 461 | 1,080 | . | |||
2018 | 1,391 | 459 | 932 | . | |||
2017 | 1,437 | 487 | 950 | . | |||
2016 | 1,380 | 310 | 1,070 | . |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 1,423 | 1,489 | 2,219 | 2,395 | 1,767 |
Agricultural sciences | 304 | 328 | 331 | 405 | 162 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 468 | 471 | 959 | 895 | 570 |
Computer and information sciences | 21 | 24 | 13 | 6 | 3 |
Engineering | 81 | 112 | 96 | 209 | 122 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Health sciences | 311 | 311 | 545 | 576 | 516 |
Mathematics and statistics | 6 | 10 | 17 | 23 | 24 |
Natural resources and conservation | 33 | 38 | 17 | 16 | . |
Physical sciences | 133 | 131 | 133 | 130 | 178 |
Psychology | 42 | 41 | 43 | 86 | 141 |
Social sciences | 21 | 18 | 63 | 44 | 50 |
Other | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 192,000 | . | . | . | . |
Health sciences | 192,000 | . | . | . | . |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 47,890 | 5,844 | 6,885 | 23,700 | 1,001 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 287 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 22,916 | 2,476 | 2,862 | 5,197 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 368 | 18,503 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health sciences | 24,153 | 1,674 | 1,674 | 0 | 1,001 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 250 | 250 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 250 | 250 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 471 | 1,194 | 1,194 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 350 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.