Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
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 | 177 | 74.3 | 680 | |||||||||
2021 | 154 | 78 | 691 | |||||||||
2020 | 145 | 79.5 | 697 | |||||||||
2019 | 145 | 79.5 | 696 | |||||||||
2018 | 144 | 79.7 | 698 | |||||||||
2017 | 144 | 79.3 | 684 | |||||||||
2016 | 151 | 78.7 | 697 | |||||||||
2015 | 158 | 77.5 | 693 | |||||||||
2014 | 160 | 77.1 | 688 | |||||||||
2013 | 151 | 73.2 | 555 |
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 | 828 | 914 | 912 | 931 | 925 | 910 | 948 | 933 | 917 | 939 |
Male | 570 | 669 | 666 | 681 | 676 | 662 | 654 | 661 | 681 | 698 |
Female | 258 | 245 | 246 | 250 | 249 | 248 | 294 | 272 | 236 | 241 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 467 | 470 | 465 | 475 | 472 | 465 | 465 | 479 | 507 | 520 |
Hispanic or Latino | 44 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 15 | 22 | 29 | 25 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 414 | 437 | 432 | 442 | 439 | 432 | 431 | 441 | 458 | 475 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Asian | 73 | 39 | 39 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 44 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
Black or African American | 20 | 19 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 14 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 286 | 357 | 353 | 361 | 359 | 353 | 349 | 363 | 385 | 406 |
More than one race | 34 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 15 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 9 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 19 | 16 | 20 | 20 |
Temporary visa holders | 361 | 444 | 447 | 456 | 453 | 445 | 483 | 454 | 410 | 419 |
Science and engineering | 828 | 914 | 912 | 931 | 925 | 910 | 948 | 933 | 917 | 939 |
Science | 337 | 406 | 415 | 421 | 417 | 408 | 466 | 455 | 406 | 376 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 43 | 45 | 46 | 46 | 45 | 44 | 39 | 45 | 41 | 38 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 15 | 13 | 13 | 15 |
Computer and information sciences | 125 | 151 | 155 | 158 | 151 | 144 | 123 | 133 | 137 | 128 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 11 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 7 |
Mathematics and statistics | 55 | 81 | 83 | 88 | 92 | 94 | 109 | 84 | 51 | 49 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 35 | 31 | 33 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 84 | 77 | 56 | 41 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 66 | 85 | 86 | 86 | 85 | 83 | 80 | 85 | 92 | 92 |
Social sciences | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
Engineering | 491 | 508 | 497 | 510 | 508 | 502 | 482 | 478 | 511 | 563 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 49 | 49 | 48 | 50 | 49 | 48 | 34 | 34 | 30 | 25 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 72 | 63 | 63 | 65 | 63 | 60 | 50 | 47 | 53 | 55 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 75 | 66 | 68 | 68 | 66 | 65 | 65 | 61 | 69 | 77 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 43 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 25 | 30 | 31 | 36 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 85 | 90 | 89 | 92 | 90 | 91 | 89 | 88 | 93 | 107 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 10 | 25 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 3 |
Mechanical engineering | 94 | 100 | 94 | 98 | 100 | 98 | 89 | 85 | 92 | 88 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 39 | 52 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 50 | 43 | 48 | 58 | 56 |
Other engineering | 24 | 30 | 28 | 28 | 30 | 31 | 85 | 84 | 69 | 116 |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
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 | 54 | 110 | 113 | 109 | 111 | 111 | 141 | 182 | 226 | 72 |
Male | 43 | 76 | 78 | 75 | 77 | 77 | 105 | 136 | 190 | 61 |
Female | 11 | 34 | 35 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 36 | 46 | 36 | 11 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 51 | 68 | 70 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 112 | 146 | 196 | 51 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 49 | 61 | 63 | 60 | 61 | 61 | 102 | 125 | 178 | 47 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Asian | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Black or African American | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 42 | 52 | 54 | 51 | 52 | 52 | 90 | 111 | 160 | 44 |
More than one race | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 1 |
Temporary visa holders | 3 | 42 | 43 | 42 | 43 | 43 | 29 | 36 | 30 | 21 |
Science and engineering | 54 | 110 | 113 | 109 | 111 | 111 | 141 | 182 | 226 | 72 |
Science | 6 | 49 | 50 | 49 | 50 | 49 | 41 | 51 | 59 | 26 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 3 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 16 | 38 | 10 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 1 | 29 | 31 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 15 | 22 | 7 | 4 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 7 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Social sciences | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 48 | 61 | 63 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 100 | 131 | 167 | 46 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 23 | 11 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Mechanical engineering | 39 | 43 | 45 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 64 | 80 | 92 | 7 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
Other engineering | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 24 | 33 | 8 |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
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 | 191 | 246 | 250 | 250 | 246 | 239 | 273 | 310 | 301 | 295 |
Science and engineering | 191 | 246 | 250 | 250 | 246 | 239 | 273 | 310 | 301 | 295 |
Science | 68 | 88 | 92 | 91 | 88 | 85 | 111 | 113 | 114 | 113 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 18 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 13 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 22 | 36 | 39 | 38 | 36 | 33 | 45 | 44 | 45 | 45 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Mathematics and statistics | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 19 | 13 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 14 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 28 | 30 | 25 | 31 |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Social sciences | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Engineering | 123 | 158 | 158 | 159 | 158 | 154 | 162 | 197 | 187 | 182 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 6 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 9 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 23 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 18 | 15 | 14 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 21 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 24 | 28 | 30 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 12 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 26 | 32 | 32 | 33 | 32 | 31 | 33 | 44 | 44 | 47 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 23 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 30 | 38 | 36 | 29 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 10 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 26 | 22 | 17 |
Other engineering | 8 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 30 | 24 | 17 | 24 |
Health | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
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 | 828 | 914 | 912 | 931 | 925 | 910 | 948 | 933 | 917 | 939 |
Fellowships | 1 | 63 | 63 | 62 | 63 | 62 | 80 | 74 | 80 | 67 |
Federal | 0 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 13 |
Institutional | 1 | 39 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 38 | 80 | 74 | 53 | 54 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Research assistantships | 299 | 336 | 345 | 344 | 336 | 326 | 356 | 394 | 405 | 441 |
Federal | 191 | 222 | 227 | 227 | 222 | 215 | 273 | 310 | 270 | 280 |
Institutional | 36 | 81 | 82 | 82 | 81 | 79 | 83 | 84 | 116 | 139 |
Nonfederal | 72 | 33 | 36 | 35 | 33 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 22 |
Teaching assistantships | 341 | 338 | 340 | 342 | 339 | 326 | 346 | 313 | 350 | 326 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 341 | 338 | 340 | 342 | 339 | 326 | 346 | 313 | 350 | 326 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other types of support | 187 | 177 | 164 | 183 | 187 | 196 | 166 | 152 | 82 | 105 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
Institutional | 135 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 25 | 27 | 11 | 35 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Personal resources | 52 | 164 | 151 | 170 | 173 | 182 | 141 | 125 | 59 | 68 |
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 | 242 | 243 | 254 | 254 | 94 | 73 | 70 | 83 | 82 | 85 |
Science | 96 | 97 | 108 | 108 | 41 | 39 | 25 | 32 | 32 | 20 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 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 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
Natural resources and conservation | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 3 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 13 |
Social sciences | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Engineering | 146 | 146 | 146 | 146 | 53 | 34 | 45 | 51 | 50 | 65 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 66 | 66 | 66 | 66 | 13 | 8 | 27 | 30 | 24 | 26 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 36 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 16 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
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 | 76 | 76 | 80 | 80 | 47 | 42 | 42 | 49 | 49 | 50 |
Science and engineering | 76 | 76 | 80 | 80 | 47 | 42 | 42 | 49 | 49 | 50 |
Science | 29 | 29 | 33 | 33 | 17 | 23 | 17 | 11 | 19 | 10 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 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 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
Natural resources and conservation | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 7 |
Social sciences | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 30 | 19 | 25 | 38 | 30 | 40 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 25 | 25 | 25 | 25 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 30 | 17 | 18 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Health | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
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).