Northwestern 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 | 31 | 93.5 | 457 | 39 | 94.5 | 680 | 29 | 96.9 | 890 | |||
2021 | 31 | 93.3 | 447 | 38 | 94.7 | 691 | 18 | 97.1 | 583 | 30 | 96.8 | 907 |
2020 | 33 | 92.9 | 450 | 36 | 95 | 697 | 29 | 97 | 915 | |||
2019 | 28 | 94 | 447 | 36 | 95 | 696 | 53 | 91.2 | 589 | 29 | 97 | 913 |
2018 | 32 | 92.8 | 428 | 48 | 93.3 | 698 | 28 | 97.1 | 910 | |||
2017 | 31 | 93 | 425 | 44 | 93.8 | 684 | 59 | 90 | 575 | 29 | 96.9 | 897 |
2016 | 33 | 92.6 | 430 | 46 | 93.6 | 697 | 29 | 96.9 | 895 | |||
2015 | 36 | 91.8 | 426 | 46 | 93.6 | 693 | 58 | 90.1 | 570 | 29 | 96.9 | 897 |
2014 | 36 | 91.8 | 422 | 45 | 93.7 | 688 | 30 | 96.8 | 887 | |||
2013 | 26 | 94 | 417 | 43 | 92.5 | 555 | 59 | 90.2 | 588 | 30 | 96.8 | 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
Fields | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All fields | 491 | 428 | 433 | 484 | 432 | 441 | 454 | 424 | 430 | 469 |
Science and engineering | 394 | 356 | 361 | 388 | 346 | 354 | 355 | 330 | 352 | 368 |
Science | 280 | 253 | 238 | 268 | 244 | 227 | 252 | 208 | 251 | 258 |
Life science | 91 | 67 | 79 | 76 | 73 | 67 | 84 | 67 | 77 | 94 |
Agricultural sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | 1 | . | . |
Biological sciences | 83 | 59 | 72 | 74 | 69 | 62 | 79 | 64 | 75 | 88 |
Health sciences | 8 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | 83 | 66 | 56 | 75 | 62 | 58 | 61 | 53 | 65 | 57 |
Chemistry | 54 | 42 | 38 | 44 | 33 | 33 | 41 | 38 | 44 | 44 |
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Physics and astronomy | 23 | 19 | 15 | 26 | 25 | 23 | 15 | 11 | 17 | 11 |
Mathematics and computer sciences | 30 | 43 | 26 | 33 | 28 | 31 | 23 | 17 | 33 | 26 |
Computer sciences | 14 | 21 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 9 |
Mathematics | 16 | 22 | 12 | 19 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 20 | 17 |
Psychology and social sciences | 76 | 77 | 77 | 84 | 81 | 71 | 84 | 71 | 76 | 81 |
Psychology | 21 | 19 | 24 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 25 | 19 | 22 | 19 |
Anthropology | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 7 |
Economics | 20 | 20 | 20 | 25 | 21 | 14 | 24 | 19 | 19 | 20 |
Political science and government | 10 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 19 |
Sociology | 13 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 11 |
Other social sciences | 9 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
Engineering | 114 | 103 | 123 | 120 | 102 | 127 | 103 | 122 | 101 | 110 |
Biological/biomedical sciences | 22 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 13 | 18 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 17 |
Chemical engineering | 14 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 15 | 14 | 7 |
Civil engineering | 7 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
Electrical engineering | 6 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 16 |
Industrial engineering | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 7 |
Materials/metallurgical engineering | 25 | 34 | 33 | 29 | 34 | 37 | 28 | 31 | 23 | 29 |
Mechanical engineering | 14 | 17 | 20 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 18 | 12 | 14 |
Other engineering | 19 | 17 | 19 | 18 | 11 | 24 | 18 | 19 | 12 | 17 |
Non-science and engineering | 97 | 72 | 72 | 96 | 86 | 87 | 99 | 94 | 78 | 101 |
Education | 15 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 13 |
Education administration | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 |
Education research | 12 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | . | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
Teaching fields | 1 | 2 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Other education | . | . | . | . | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | . | 2 |
Humanities | 53 | 41 | 46 | 65 | 56 | 57 | 62 | 40 | 41 | 52 |
Foreign languages & literature | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
History | 9 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 6 |
Letters | 12 | 9 | 16 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 14 |
Other humanities and arts | 28 | 19 | 20 | 33 | 22 | 32 | 33 | 19 | 18 | 29 |
Other | 29 | 26 | 21 | 25 | 22 | 24 | 31 | 44 | 29 | 36 |
Business management/administration | 22 | 14 | 15 | 23 | 17 | 12 | 17 | 26 | 19 | 16 |
Communication | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 10 | 17 |
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec) | 1 | 3 | . | . | . | 2 | . | 1 | . | 3 |
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, Survey of Earned Doctorates
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All full-time students | 3,908 | 3,801 | 3,512 | 3,537 | 2,820 | 2,955 | 2,962 | 2,858 | 2,902 | 2,944 |
Male | 1,954 | 1,873 | 1,736 | 1,830 | 1,624 | 1,721 | 1,743 | 1,706 | 1,694 | 1,734 |
Female | 1,954 | 1,928 | 1,776 | 1,707 | 1,196 | 1,234 | 1,219 | 1,152 | 1,208 | 1,210 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 2,427 | 2,390 | 2,288 | 2,197 | 1,572 | 1,719 | 1,567 | 1,677 | 1,796 | 1,843 |
Hispanic or Latino | 314 | 313 | 272 | 237 | 148 | 169 | 150 | 158 | 161 | 161 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 2,024 | 1,985 | 1,921 | 1,859 | 1,332 | 1,463 | 1,334 | 1,422 | 1,516 | 1,552 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Asian | 409 | 354 | 324 | 304 | 229 | 254 | 76 | 204 | 227 | 232 |
Black or African American | 171 | 163 | 166 | 165 | 110 | 110 | 109 | 114 | 121 | 112 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
White | 1,321 | 1,357 | 1,307 | 1,252 | 904 | 1,013 | 1,070 | 1,030 | 1,097 | 1,142 |
More than one race | 118 | 104 | 116 | 130 | 84 | 82 | 76 | 70 | 69 | 61 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 89 | 92 | 95 | 101 | 92 | 87 | 83 | 97 | 119 | 130 |
Temporary visa holders | 1,481 | 1,411 | 1,224 | 1,340 | 1,248 | 1,236 | 1,395 | 1,181 | 1,106 | 1,101 |
Science and engineering | 3,797 | 3,687 | 3,342 | 3,370 | 2,718 | 2,827 | 2,858 | 2,759 | 2,764 | 2,843 |
Science | 2,636 | 2,538 | 2,288 | 2,228 | 1,642 | 1,658 | 1,805 | 1,793 | 1,826 | 1,896 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 657 | 643 | 554 | 567 | 494 | 538 | 392 | 371 | 425 | 384 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 65 | 51 | 61 | 65 |
Computer and information sciences | 296 | 263 | 194 | 206 | 168 | 124 | 124 | 141 | 129 | 149 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 23 | 24 | 25 | 29 | 32 | 29 | 27 | 22 | 20 | 26 |
Mathematics and statistics | 106 | 82 | 83 | 80 | 90 | 90 | 152 | 140 | 130 | 121 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 77 | 73 | 78 | 31 | 32 | 29 | 27 | 25 | 15 | 14 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 122 | 117 | 135 | 134 |
Physical sciences | 422 | 382 | 396 | 403 | 308 | 312 | 358 | 385 | 357 | 376 |
Psychology | 600 | 609 | 560 | 517 | 115 | 118 | 122 | 124 | 122 | 152 |
Social sciences | 455 | 462 | 398 | 395 | 403 | 418 | 416 | 417 | 432 | 475 |
Engineering | 1,161 | 1,149 | 1,054 | 1,142 | 1,076 | 1,169 | 1,053 | 966 | 938 | 947 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 166 | 160 | 152 | 147 | 137 | 164 | 147 | 120 | 132 | 140 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 119 | 116 | 109 | 98 | 101 | 119 | 120 | 117 | 121 | 118 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 119 | 127 | 22 | 115 | 107 | 121 | 110 | 107 | 117 | 117 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 184 | 167 | 168 | 203 | 156 | 184 | 104 | 127 | 123 | 135 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 83 | 84 | 65 | 64 | 63 | 58 | 67 | 58 | 51 | 51 |
Mechanical engineering | 139 | 140 | 229 | 173 | 161 | 163 | 160 | 136 | 131 | 134 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 227 | 247 | 209 | 236 | 232 | 234 | 248 | 237 | 207 | 204 |
Other engineering | 124 | 108 | 100 | 106 | 119 | 126 | 97 | 64 | 56 | 48 |
Health | 111 | 114 | 170 | 167 | 102 | 128 | 104 | 99 | 138 | 101 |
Clinical medicine | 61 | 63 | 93 | 95 | 36 | 71 | 55 | 46 | 94 | 54 |
Other health | 50 | 51 | 77 | 72 | 66 | 57 | 49 | 53 | 44 | 47 |
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 | 572 | 547 | 589 | 429 | 213 | 177 | 245 | 235 | 267 | 134 |
Male | 161 | 143 | 185 | 154 | 114 | 115 | 131 | 118 | 163 | 76 |
Female | 411 | 404 | 404 | 275 | 99 | 62 | 114 | 117 | 104 | 58 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 482 | 521 | 502 | 358 | 107 | 69 | 136 | 147 | 180 | 84 |
Hispanic or Latino | 60 | 58 | 60 | 36 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 2 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 404 | 446 | 424 | 313 | 95 | 61 | 121 | 133 | 155 | 75 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Asian | 65 | 67 | 54 | 40 | 27 | 20 | 6 | 30 | 44 | 23 |
Black or African American | 42 | 60 | 66 | 48 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 272 | 295 | 287 | 217 | 60 | 36 | 108 | 98 | 105 | 50 |
More than one race | 24 | 23 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 18 | 17 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 7 |
Temporary visa holders | 90 | 26 | 87 | 71 | 106 | 108 | 109 | 88 | 87 | 50 |
Science and engineering | 488 | 463 | 507 | 368 | 160 | 126 | 156 | 148 | 198 | 65 |
Science | 385 | 384 | 369 | 254 | 21 | 25 | 63 | 55 | 145 | 26 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 33 | 11 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 42 | 48 | 42 | 17 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Psychology | 346 | 363 | 341 | 234 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Social sciences | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 97 | 1 |
Engineering | 103 | 79 | 138 | 114 | 139 | 101 | 93 | 93 | 53 | 39 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 5 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 9 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 19 | 5 | 27 | 14 | 37 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 11 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 60 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 12 | 5 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 4 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 30 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 8 |
Other engineering | 33 | 50 | 64 | 64 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Health | 84 | 84 | 82 | 61 | 53 | 51 | 89 | 87 | 69 | 69 |
Clinical medicine | 74 | 67 | 64 | 45 | 42 | 40 | 61 | 66 | 69 | 43 |
Other health | 10 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 28 | 21 | 0 | 26 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 650 | 650 | 716 | 668 | 585 | 643 | 613 | 635 | 653 | 717 |
Science and engineering | 649 | 649 | 708 | 658 | 570 | 629 | 602 | 624 | 644 | 705 |
Science | 408 | 400 | 417 | 404 | 347 | 378 | 404 | 404 | 430 | 453 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 213 | 207 | 191 | 192 | 163 | 195 | 132 | 105 | 130 | 138 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Computer and information sciences | 25 | 25 | 26 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 21 | 17 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 5 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 11 |
Mathematics and statistics | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 16 | 20 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 21 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 62 | 45 | 55 | 59 |
Psychology | 6 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 25 | 24 | 19 | 25 |
Physical sciences | 125 | 132 | 158 | 145 | 121 | 121 | 129 | 158 | 146 | 153 |
Social sciences | 11 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 20 | 28 | 22 |
Engineering | 241 | 249 | 291 | 254 | 223 | 251 | 198 | 220 | 214 | 252 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 37 | 43 | 53 | 41 | 30 | 34 | 33 | 23 | 29 | 44 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 30 | 28 | 33 | 34 | 31 | 29 | 31 | 28 | 30 | 40 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 16 | 18 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 13 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 22 | 18 | 20 | 16 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 18 | 24 | 23 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 12 | 14 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 10 |
Mechanical engineering | 27 | 23 | 60 | 42 | 37 | 33 | 23 | 34 | 28 | 35 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 70 | 75 | 93 | 72 | 69 | 82 | 78 | 89 | 83 | 85 |
Other engineering | 27 | 30 | 25 | 19 | 20 | 40 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 |
Health | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 12 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Other health | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 11 |
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 | 3,908 | 3,801 | 3,512 | 3,537 | 2,820 | 2,955 | 2,962 | 2,858 | 2,902 | 2,944 |
Fellowships | 1,282 | 992 | 560 | 707 | 692 | 1,013 | 1,044 | 1,043 | 1,051 | 1,061 |
Federal | 201 | 73 | 43 | 86 | 102 | 273 | 238 | 238 | 222 | 294 |
Institutional | 1,041 | 784 | 405 | 502 | 497 | 636 | 703 | 681 | 727 | 678 |
Nonfederal | 40 | 135 | 112 | 119 | 93 | 104 | 103 | 124 | 102 | 89 |
Research assistantships | 897 | 1,059 | 926 | 942 | 893 | 692 | 662 | 630 | 714 | 698 |
Federal | 449 | 577 | 673 | 582 | 483 | 370 | 375 | 388 | 411 | 408 |
Institutional | 394 | 420 | 150 | 281 | 315 | 248 | 233 | 179 | 238 | 278 |
Nonfederal | 54 | 62 | 103 | 79 | 95 | 74 | 54 | 63 | 65 | 12 |
Teaching assistantships | 441 | 382 | 365 | 368 | 358 | 440 | 456 | 441 | 375 | 469 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
Institutional | 438 | 382 | 365 | 368 | 358 | 440 | 456 | 441 | 375 | 455 |
Nonfederal | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other types of support | 1,288 | 1,368 | 1,661 | 1,520 | 877 | 810 | 800 | 744 | 762 | 716 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 20 | 1 |
Institutional | 53 | 100 | 569 | 330 | 237 | 422 | 334 | 74 | 70 | 69 |
Nonfederal | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Personal resources | 1,233 | 1,266 | 1,092 | 1,190 | 640 | 388 | 466 | 659 | 671 | 646 |
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 | 1,385 | 1,315 | 1,289 | 1,323 | 633 | 678 | 599 | 566 | 530 | 544 |
Science | 1,126 | 973 | 961 | 1,012 | 462 | 508 | 451 | 426 | 403 | 396 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 416 | 366 | 374 | 389 | 185 | 210 | 194 | 179 | 160 | 176 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Computer and information sciences | 18 | 26 | 14 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Mathematics and statistics | 48 | 41 | 43 | 47 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 158 | 87 | 42 | 111 | 51 | 63 | 44 | 42 | 43 | 25 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | 14 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 385 | 357 | 369 | 360 | 175 | 184 | 175 | 167 | 164 | 169 |
Psychology | 34 | 32 | 42 | 30 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 10 |
Social sciences | 63 | 64 | 61 | 58 | 26 | 24 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 10 |
Engineering | 259 | 342 | 328 | 311 | 171 | 170 | 148 | 140 | 127 | 148 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 37 | 123 | 98 | 36 | 22 | 29 | 25 | 30 | 27 | 27 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 70 | 80 | 76 | 54 | 28 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 29 | 31 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 32 | 24 | 22 | 32 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 11 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 16 | 16 | 22 | 25 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 12 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 2 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
Mechanical engineering | 24 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 17 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 8 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 62 | 57 | 73 | 90 | 48 | 51 | 52 | 41 | 31 | 33 |
Other engineering | 16 | 18 | 12 | 44 | 24 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Health | 533 | 536 | 581 | 556 | 287 | 311 | 214 | 180 | 178 | 172 |
Clinical medicine | 459 | 449 | 498 | 458 | 246 | 271 | 186 | 152 | 150 | 158 |
Other health | 74 | 87 | 83 | 98 | 41 | 40 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 14 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 580 | 588 | 539 | 532 | 533 | 591 | 534 | 478 | 450 | 463 |
Science and engineering | 419 | 419 | 378 | 374 | 364 | 393 | 401 | 376 | 348 | 363 |
Science | 327 | 303 | 276 | 291 | 276 | 302 | 305 | 279 | 270 | 264 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 146 | 142 | 141 | 141 | 135 | 144 | 139 | 121 | 115 | 123 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Computer and information sciences | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 5 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 44 | 22 | 8 | 20 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 32 | 34 | 17 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 13 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 |
Physical sciences | 106 | 100 | 92 | 99 | 98 | 116 | 123 | 104 | 100 | 107 |
Social sciences | 10 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
Engineering | 92 | 116 | 102 | 83 | 88 | 91 | 96 | 97 | 78 | 99 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 12 | 45 | 33 | 11 | 14 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 16 | 18 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 28 | 25 | 24 | 17 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 17 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 5 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 5 | 8 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Mechanical engineering | 10 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 7 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 21 | 22 | 23 | 27 | 29 | 26 | 31 | 29 | 23 | 24 |
Other engineering | 6 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Health | 161 | 169 | 161 | 158 | 169 | 198 | 133 | 102 | 102 | 100 |
Clinical medicine | 143 | 151 | 144 | 138 | 146 | 178 | 115 | 84 | 81 | 86 |
Other health | 18 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 23 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 21 | 14 |
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 | 1,000,695 | 913,178 | 874,671 | 857,069 | 805,672 | 751,809 | 713,491 | 656,167 | 645,333 | 639,781 | ||||||||||
Science | 880,452 | 807,366 | 770,529 | 747,194 | 694,796 | 639,540 | 600,524 | 549,644 | 534,429 | 530,054 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 10,117 | 8,957 | 8,441 | 3,035 | 2,512 | 2,530 | 2,197 | 40 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1,443 | 1,342 | 1,351 | 1,547 | 1,627 | 1,821 | 1,655 | 1,924 | 1,990 | 1,624 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,443 | 1,342 | 1,351 | 1,547 | 1,627 | 1,821 | 1,655 | 1,924 | 1,990 | 1,624 | ||||||||||
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 | 721,230 | 659,195 | 619,270 | 604,875 | 555,160 | 515,893 | 481,869 | 451,943 | 436,439 | 432,467 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 189,086 | 166,594 | 153,629 | 141,523 | 128,409 | 130,422 | 122,935 | 100,231 | 95,577 | 96,980 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 514,642 | 474,272 | 451,059 | 446,421 | 406,467 | 370,779 | 346,275 | 327,972 | 320,206 | 317,945 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,242 | 2,868 | 1,823 | 1,234 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 17,502 | 18,329 | 14,582 | 14,689 | 17,416 | 12,869 | 11,425 | 23,740 | 20,656 | 17,542 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 2,215 | 1,490 | 2,275 | 2,461 | 2,869 | 2,461 | 2,293 | 2,228 | 2,096 | 2,648 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 90,194 | 83,618 | 78,168 | 82,072 | 82,409 | 71,743 | 67,071 | 43,551 | 42,499 | 46,695 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 6,681 | 6,676 | 6,604 | 5,274 | 4,566 | 3,438 | 2,564 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 40,697 | 36,484 | 35,130 | 40,651 | 39,150 | 38,954 | 39,855 | 34,334 | 33,303 | 35,547 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 18,052 | 16,535 | 16,418 | 13,853 | 18,211 | 15,094 | 12,620 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 19,886 | 19,296 | 15,418 | 17,918 | 18,337 | 12,441 | 10,125 | 7,521 | 6,978 | 9,052 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 4,878 | 4,627 | 4,598 | 4,376 | 2,145 | 1,816 | 1,907 | 1,696 | 2,218 | 2,096 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 4,231 | 3,352 | 3,706 | 4,157 | 3,923 | 4,177 | 4,667 | 3,602 | 4,264 | 4,461 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 24,515 | 21,988 | 18,762 | 16,211 | 15,007 | 16,447 | 16,924 | 19,787 | 18,806 | 16,386 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 951 | 553 | 1,106 | 963 | 822 | 842 | 820 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 8,819 | 6,455 | 3,721 | 1,556 | 1,819 | 1,548 | 2,015 | 1,797 | 1,563 | 1,778 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 641 | 584 | 758 | 801 | 918 | 847 | 502 | 14,427 | 14,311 | 12,157 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 275 | 249 | 443 | 523 | 607 | 688 | 551 | 1,842 | 1,731 | 900 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 13,829 | 14,147 | 12,734 | 12,368 | 10,841 | 12,522 | 13,036 | 1,721 | 1,201 | 1,551 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 26,507 | 27,424 | 38,556 | 32,836 | 31,289 | 24,468 | 23,848 | 26,569 | 28,335 | 25,773 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 88,008 | 80,735 | 77,150 | 80,413 | 81,662 | 84,520 | 84,243 | 77,676 | 87,075 | 81,955 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 17,376 | 14,826 | 14,678 | 11,844 | 15,052 | 14,133 | 12,628 | 12,994 | 12,703 | 9,983 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 13,889 | 15,296 | 14,434 | 15,264 | 10,304 | 9,541 | 7,077 | 8,924 | 13,746 | 13,472 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 6,071 | 4,883 | 5,619 | 4,211 | 5,536 | 5,034 | 5,247 | 4,459 | 3,635 | 3,289 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 8,475 | 8,204 | 7,501 | 12,630 | 12,339 | 11,654 | 12,742 | 7,213 | 6,866 | 8,096 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 4,615 | 3,995 | 3,948 | 3,530 | 3,380 | 3,347 | 2,983 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 7,448 | 6,274 | 6,525 | 6,845 | 7,181 | 9,458 | 10,923 | 9,463 | 8,866 | 8,942 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 16,229 | 16,709 | 15,415 | 16,820 | 17,293 | 21,207 | 17,752 | 18,397 | 21,738 | 21,178 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 13,905 | 10,548 | 9,030 | 9,269 | 10,577 | 10,146 | 14,891 | 16,226 | 19,521 | 16,995 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 32,235 | 25,077 | 26,992 | 29,462 | 29,214 | 27,749 | 28,724 | 28,847 | 23,829 | 27,772 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 15,461 | 10,181 | 11,847 | 11,085 | 8,845 | 5,791 | 6,115 | 8,415 | 6,501 | 7,899 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 3,090 | 3,019 | 3,298 | 3,575 | 4,673 | 5,574 | 7,195 | 6,677 | 4,787 | 4,079 | ||||||||||
Education | 8,171 | 7,353 | 6,237 | 8,202 | 9,087 | 10,078 | 9,650 | 7,363 | 6,334 | 7,481 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 3,470 | 2,970 | 3,986 | 4,475 | 4,172 | 3,673 | 3,166 | 1,776 | 1,442 | 2,598 | ||||||||||
Law | 1,216 | 1,108 | 993 | 1,260 | 1,300 | 1,317 | 1,492 | 1,486 | 1,847 | 2,234 | ||||||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 827 | 446 | 631 | 865 | 1,135 | 1,098 | 1,104 | 969 | 848 | 1,062 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 218 | 2 | 2,161 | 2,070 | 2,419 |
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 | 1,000,695 | 618,771 | 783 | 262,434 | 59,850 | 51,091 | 7,766 | |||||||
Science | 880,452 | 558,170 | 783 | 214,785 | 54,990 | 45,869 | 5,855 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 10,117 | 6,580 | 0 | 2,187 | 1,307 | 43 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1,443 | 835 | 0 | 413 | 0 | 195 | 0 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,443 | 835 | 0 | 413 | 0 | 195 | 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 | 721,230 | 470,576 | 758 | 158,663 | 50,263 | 35,823 | 5,147 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 189,086 | 129,866 | 0 | 41,213 | 5,202 | 12,356 | 449 | |||||||
Health sciences | 514,642 | 332,325 | 758 | 110,106 | 44,665 | 22,090 | 4,698 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 17,502 | 8,385 | 0 | 7,344 | 396 | 1,377 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 2,215 | 1,290 | 0 | 564 | 0 | 361 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 90,194 | 50,617 | 0 | 32,018 | 1,166 | 6,081 | 312 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 6,681 | 2,219 | 0 | 3,802 | 0 | 660 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 40,697 | 22,536 | 0 | 14,233 | 899 | 2,991 | 38 | |||||||
Materials science | 18,052 | 13,457 | 0 | 4,410 | 12 | 173 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 19,886 | 10,229 | 0 | 7,065 | 61 | 2,257 | 274 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 4,878 | 2,176 | 0 | 2,508 | 194 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 4,231 | 2,653 | 0 | 1,551 | 0 | 24 | 3 | |||||||
Social sciences | 24,515 | 13,131 | 0 | 8,940 | 378 | 1,716 | 350 | |||||||
Anthropology | 951 | 230 | 0 | 599 | 0 | 117 | 5 | |||||||
Economics | 8,819 | 5,521 | 0 | 3,219 | 0 | 50 | 29 | |||||||
Political science and government | 641 | 118 | 0 | 462 | 40 | 0 | 21 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 275 | 0 | 0 | 275 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 13,829 | 7,262 | 0 | 4,385 | 338 | 1,549 | 295 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 26,507 | 12,488 | 25 | 10,449 | 1,876 | 1,626 | 43 | |||||||
Engineering | 88,008 | 56,993 | 0 | 23,726 | 4,462 | 2,063 | 764 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 17,376 | 12,224 | 0 | 4,540 | 151 | 333 | 128 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 13,889 | 8,794 | 0 | 3,670 | 1,091 | 184 | 150 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 6,071 | 4,082 | 0 | 1,328 | 370 | 140 | 151 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 8,475 | 5,896 | 0 | 1,485 | 835 | 160 | 99 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 4,615 | 2,673 | 0 | 1,243 | 659 | 0 | 40 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 7,448 | 5,633 | 0 | 1,380 | 356 | 32 | 47 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 16,229 | 11,910 | 0 | 3,649 | 545 | 125 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 13,905 | 5,781 | 0 | 6,431 | 455 | 1,089 | 149 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 32,235 | 3,608 | 0 | 23,923 | 398 | 3,159 | 1,147 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 15,461 | 982 | 0 | 13,833 | 271 | 255 | 120 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 3,090 | 889 | 0 | 1,544 | 2 | 650 | 5 | |||||||
Education | 8,171 | 1,470 | 0 | 3,794 | 15 | 1,907 | 985 | |||||||
Humanities | 3,470 | 36 | 0 | 3,274 | 37 | 86 | 37 | |||||||
Law | 1,216 | 231 | 0 | 697 | 73 | 215 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 827 | 0 | 0 | 781 | 0 | 46 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 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.
- 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 | 618,771 | 572,975 | 531,654 | 502,300 | 469,525 | 446,609 | 432,413 | 393,186 | 391,946 | 396,138 | ||||||||||
DOD | 50,435 | 45,744 | 43,595 | 43,448 | 42,721 | 37,140 | 38,566 | 35,124 | 36,909 | 33,626 | ||||||||||
DOE | 30,065 | 28,064 | 22,672 | 21,580 | 20,189 | 21,968 | 21,294 | 21,359 | 26,987 | 24,904 | ||||||||||
HHS | 467,367 | 432,853 | 402,269 | 374,302 | 344,380 | 324,778 | 305,371 | 280,136 | 271,475 | 277,028 | ||||||||||
NASA | 3,872 | 3,213 | 3,457 | 3,961 | 5,555 | 3,625 | 3,440 | 1,818 | 2,350 | 1,749 | ||||||||||
NSF | 57,278 | 53,359 | 49,659 | 48,728 | 42,916 | 45,192 | 48,927 | 45,979 | 45,011 | 47,963 | ||||||||||
USDA | 411 | 307 | 448 | 137 | 233 | 35 | 37 | 8 | 113 | 137 | ||||||||||
Other | 9,343 | 9,435 | 9,554 | 10,144 | 13,531 | 13,871 | 14,778 | 8,762 | 9,101 | 10,731 |
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 | 10,096 | 1,337 | 8,759 | . | |||
2018 | 9,603 | 1,293 | 8,310 | . | |||
2017 | 9,333 | 1,263 | 8,070 | . | |||
2016 | 7,947 | 1,196 | 6,751 | . |
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 | 2,471 | 1,173 | 1,085 | 1,003 | 1,011 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 397 | 210 | 265 | 249 | 241 |
Computer and information sciences | 18 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 366 | 166 | 187 | 166 | 143 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 |
Health sciences | 892 | 448 | 445 | 399 | 464 |
Mathematics and statistics | 22 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Natural resources and conservation | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | . |
Physical sciences | 271 | 134 | 137 | 140 | 124 |
Psychology | 43 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 12 |
Social sciences | 168 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 7 |
Other | 263 | 163 | 12 | 10 | 13 |
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 | 67,670 | . | 18,726 | 335,981 | 18,330 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | . | . | . | 98,542 | . |
Engineering | . | . | 18,726 | 70,333 | . |
Health sciences | . | . | . | 101,944 | 16,891 |
Physical sciences | . | . | . | 27,968 | . |
Social sciences | 67,670 | . | . | . | 1,439 |
Other | . | . | . | 37,194 | . |
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 | 42,407 | 75,693 | 59,124 | 86,532 | 47,995 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 1,782 | 16,135 | 2,347 | 7,459 | 25,110 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 13,200 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 801 | 12,970 | 9,003 | 19,216 | 5,745 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health sciences | 15,342 | 28,675 | 13,727 | 8,583 | 13,524 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 7,447 | 3,124 | 11,303 | 8,931 | 1,391 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 281 | 1,939 |
Social sciences | 0 | 1,821 | 387 | 0 | 0 |
Other | 17,035 | 12,969 | 9,157 | 42,061 | 287 |
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.