Saint Louis 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 | 157 | 66.1 | 457 | 115 | 83.4 | 680 | 177 | 80.4 | 890 | |||
2021 | 139 | 69.4 | 447 | 138 | 80.3 | 691 | 129 | 78.2 | 583 | 175 | 81 | 907 |
2020 | 135 | 70.4 | 450 | 148 | 79.1 | 697 | 180 | 80.6 | 915 | |||
2019 | 124 | 72.7 | 447 | 149 | 78.9 | 696 | 129 | 78.4 | 589 | 183 | 80.2 | 913 |
2018 | 126 | 71 | 428 | 147 | 79.3 | 698 | 185 | 80 | 910 | |||
2017 | 117 | 72.9 | 425 | 150 | 78.4 | 684 | 129 | 77.9 | 575 | 188 | 79.3 | 897 |
2016 | 141 | 67.7 | 430 | 145 | 79.5 | 697 | 207 | 77.2 | 895 | |||
2015 | 132 | 69.5 | 426 | 175 | 75.1 | 693 | 126 | 78.2 | 570 | 203 | 77.7 | 897 |
2014 | 122 | 71.6 | 422 | 173 | 75.2 | 688 | 202 | 77.5 | 887 | |||
2013 | 142 | 66.4 | 417 | 164 | 70.9 | 555 | 158 | 73.5 | 588 | 202 | 77.5 | 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 | 95 | 106 | 118 | 135 | 130 | 157 | 111 | 119 | 132 | 101 |
Science and engineering | 62 | 61 | 75 | 64 | 68 | 77 | 55 | 61 | 76 | 54 |
Science | 55 | 53 | 71 | 59 | 61 | 70 | 53 | 61 | 73 | 53 |
Life science | 31 | 26 | 36 | 20 | 21 | 29 | 20 | 25 | 35 | 23 |
Agricultural sciences | 1 | . | . | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | 3 | . |
Biological sciences | 19 | 12 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 20 | 10 | 17 | 19 | 13 |
Health sciences | 11 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 10 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | 4 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 3 |
Chemistry | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Physics and astronomy | . | . | . | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mathematics and computer sciences | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Computer sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mathematics | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Psychology and social sciences | 18 | 21 | 21 | 28 | 31 | 32 | 23 | 30 | 24 | 26 |
Psychology | 12 | 20 | 18 | 22 | 21 | 23 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 15 |
Political science and government | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other social sciences | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 11 |
Engineering | 7 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 2 | . | 3 | 1 |
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering | . | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | . | . | 1 | . |
Biological/biomedical sciences | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . |
Civil engineering | 2 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | . | . | . | . |
Materials/metallurgical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | 2 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | 1 | . |
Other engineering | 2 | . | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | . | . | 1 | 1 |
Non-science and engineering | 33 | 45 | 43 | 71 | 62 | 80 | 56 | 58 | 56 | 47 |
Education | 18 | 25 | 20 | 41 | 38 | 38 | 30 | 34 | 28 | 27 |
Education administration | 5 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 4 |
Education research | 11 | 13 | 12 | 25 | 27 | 20 | 17 | 25 | 22 | 18 |
Teacher education | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | 1 |
Teaching fields | . | 2 | . | 1 | 1 | . | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Other education | 2 | . | 2 | 3 | 4 | . | 3 | . | . | 1 |
Humanities | 9 | 18 | 17 | 23 | 20 | 41 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 17 |
History | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Letters | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 |
Other humanities and arts | 6 | 13 | 9 | 17 | 10 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 7 |
Other | 6 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
Business management/administration | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec) | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | . | . | . | 1 | . |
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 |
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All full-time students | 1,471 | 1,072 | 895 | 896 | 890 | 883 | 995 | 819 | 810 | 775 |
Male | 703 | 444 | 348 | 353 | 353 | 349 | 393 | 296 | 290 | 285 |
Female | 768 | 628 | 547 | 543 | 537 | 534 | 602 | 523 | 520 | 490 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 717 | 781 | 710 | 697 | 705 | 703 | 838 | 673 | 669 | 640 |
Hispanic or Latino | 48 | 48 | 45 | 39 | 43 | 41 | 50 | 21 | 21 | 25 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 656 | 724 | 659 | 652 | 657 | 655 | 777 | 641 | 637 | 601 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Asian | 49 | 65 | 52 | 47 | 57 | 48 | 64 | 45 | 44 | 41 |
Black or African American | 64 | 66 | 65 | 60 | 48 | 47 | 76 | 61 | 61 | 49 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 513 | 555 | 516 | 523 | 528 | 533 | 604 | 509 | 506 | 486 |
More than one race | 30 | 38 | 26 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 31 | 25 | 25 | 23 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 13 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 14 |
Temporary visa holders | 754 | 291 | 185 | 199 | 185 | 180 | 157 | 146 | 141 | 135 |
Science and engineering | 1,178 | 781 | 608 | 617 | 541 | 524 | 614 | 505 | 499 | 485 |
Science | 1,093 | 697 | 515 | 517 | 451 | 448 | 541 | 450 | 451 | 445 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 293 | 265 | 211 | 214 | 132 | 118 | 129 | 187 | 186 | 180 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 62 | 20 | 21 | 23 |
Computer and information sciences | 500 | 126 | 48 | 47 | 40 | 37 | 44 | 8 | 7 | 14 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 20 | 20 | 18 | 19 | 25 | 26 | 32 | 31 | 32 | 32 |
Mathematics and statistics | 21 | 20 | 19 | 23 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 20 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 86 | 84 | 83 | 89 | 85 | 94 | 100 | 82 | 83 | 79 |
Physical sciences | 49 | 47 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 38 | 34 | 34 | 35 |
Social sciences | 117 | 125 | 85 | 74 | 93 | 97 | 101 | 60 | 61 | 54 |
Engineering | 85 | 84 | 93 | 100 | 90 | 76 | 73 | 55 | 48 | 40 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 70 | 77 | 89 | 96 | 88 | 76 | 73 | 55 | 48 | 40 |
Health | 293 | 291 | 287 | 279 | 349 | 359 | 381 | 314 | 311 | 290 |
Clinical medicine | 83 | 115 | 109 | 102 | 169 | 186 | 190 | 194 | 190 | 176 |
Other health | 210 | 176 | 178 | 177 | 180 | 173 | 191 | 120 | 121 | 114 |
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 | 70 | 66 | 71 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 113 | 237 | 237 | 205 |
Male | 28 | 31 | 30 | 39 | 40 | 32 | 45 | 97 | 96 | 73 |
Female | 42 | 35 | 41 | 34 | 38 | 45 | 68 | 140 | 141 | 132 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 61 | 60 | 65 | 64 | 70 | 74 | 109 | 220 | 220 | 193 |
Hispanic or Latino | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 1 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 53 | 57 | 63 | 60 | 66 | 69 | 104 | 206 | 206 | 184 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Asian | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
Black or African American | 5 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 33 | 33 | 33 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 39 | 42 | 47 | 46 | 52 | 57 | 81 | 160 | 160 | 140 |
More than one race | 7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Temporary visa holders | 9 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 12 |
Science and engineering | 47 | 56 | 55 | 56 | 49 | 57 | 93 | 171 | 172 | 162 |
Science | 38 | 43 | 46 | 47 | 41 | 51 | 82 | 151 | 153 | 152 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 9 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 31 | 31 | 36 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 21 | 44 | 45 | 33 |
Computer and information sciences | 9 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 12 | 27 | 27 | 23 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 |
Physical sciences | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 |
Social sciences | 15 | 27 | 23 | 22 | 17 | 23 | 13 | 28 | 29 | 35 |
Engineering | 9 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 19 | 10 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 9 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 19 | 10 |
Health | 23 | 10 | 16 | 17 | 29 | 20 | 20 | 66 | 65 | 43 |
Clinical medicine | 17 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 21 | 11 | 13 | 48 | 49 | 28 |
Other health | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 16 | 15 |
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 | 66 | 57 | 51 | 33 | 57 | 52 | 9 | 56 | 55 | 66 |
Science and engineering | 66 | 56 | 47 | 30 | 54 | 47 | 9 | 54 | 53 | 59 |
Science | 60 | 49 | 41 | 25 | 48 | 41 | 9 | 47 | 47 | 55 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 26 | 23 | 27 | 12 | 23 | 22 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 25 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Computer and information sciences | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 7 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
Physical sciences | 18 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
Social sciences | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Engineering | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 6 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
Health | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Other health | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 | 1,471 | 1,072 | 895 | 896 | 890 | 883 | 995 | 819 | 810 | 775 |
Fellowships | 22 | 20 | 4 | 18 | 25 | 24 | 39 | 43 | 43 | 21 |
Federal | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
Institutional | 19 | 20 | 4 | 17 | 20 | 20 | 39 | 31 | 31 | 12 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Research assistantships | 76 | 68 | 165 | 202 | 180 | 166 | 176 | 155 | 151 | 86 |
Federal | 55 | 51 | 14 | 23 | 37 | 30 | 9 | 36 | 35 | 37 |
Institutional | 0 | 5 | 137 | 159 | 131 | 120 | 157 | 112 | 109 | 26 |
Nonfederal | 21 | 12 | 14 | 20 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 23 |
Teaching assistantships | 258 | 289 | 34 | 82 | 108 | 91 | 225 | 71 | 72 | 60 |
Federal | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
Institutional | 253 | 285 | 33 | 79 | 104 | 88 | 225 | 69 | 70 | 46 |
Nonfederal | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Other types of support | 1,115 | 695 | 692 | 594 | 577 | 602 | 555 | 550 | 544 | 608 |
Federal | 4 | 3 | 36 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 12 |
Institutional | 40 | 31 | 203 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 133 | 133 | 11 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
Personal resources | 1,071 | 658 | 445 | 584 | 560 | 574 | 541 | 402 | 396 | 580 |
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 | 39 | 34 | 28 | 31 | 30 | 39 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 27 |
Science | 39 | 34 | 28 | 31 | 30 | 39 | 41 | 39 | 39 | 26 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 26 | 26 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 36 | 35 | 38 | 38 | 22 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Social sciences | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 1 | . | 1 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Health | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 21 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 21 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 24 | 21 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 21 | 21 | 28 | 16 | 28 |
Science and engineering | 24 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 16 | 14 |
Science | 24 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 16 | 14 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 18 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 16 | 13 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 14 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 14 |
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 | 82,740 | 79,005 | 69,528 | 66,103 | 60,380 | 56,402 | 42,151 | 44,457 | 44,481 | 48,231 | ||||||||||
Science | 78,006 | 73,471 | 64,237 | 59,563 | 54,567 | 52,616 | 38,932 | 38,357 | 40,406 | 44,588 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 1,221 | 1,345 | 1,164 | 655 | 303 | 384 | 115 | 13 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 3,879 | 2,264 | 1,174 | 1,281 | 1,161 | 1,453 | 1,442 | 1,137 | 862 | 674 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 1,337 | 1,137 | 862 | 674 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 3,879 | 2,264 | 1,174 | 1,043 | 1,161 | 1,353 | 105 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
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 | 238 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 66,726 | 65,928 | 58,836 | 54,582 | 50,538 | 48,824 | 35,925 | 35,570 | 37,408 | 42,037 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 25,694 | 28,234 | 27,623 | 25,209 | 23,071 | 23,356 | 10,423 | 11,765 | 12,876 | 13,012 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 40,671 | 37,487 | 31,213 | 29,373 | 27,466 | 25,087 | 25,408 | 23,319 | 24,169 | 28,456 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 361 | 207 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 381 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 486 | 363 | 569 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 192 | 190 | 280 | 56 | 74 | 104 | 135 | 257 | 210 | 94 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 3,579 | 2,131 | 1,942 | 2,384 | 1,685 | 1,092 | 760 | 754 | 1,217 | 1,129 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 3,510 | 2,120 | 1,786 | 2,179 | 1,580 | 952 | 685 | 723 | 1,089 | 957 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 69 | 11 | 156 | 205 | 105 | 140 | 12 | 13 | 119 | 171 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 18 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 435 | 233 | 393 | 333 | 480 | 521 | 475 | 590 | 457 | 101 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 1,974 | 1,380 | 448 | 272 | 326 | 238 | 80 | 36 | 252 | 553 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 183 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 1,402 | 1,043 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 66 | 23 | 19 | 40 | 0 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 58 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 327 | 314 | 154 | 232 | 219 | 222 | 61 | 1 | 41 | 33 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 179 | 0 | 92 | 0 | 107 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 196 | 457 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 1,559 | 1,999 | 2,621 | 2,344 | 1,346 | 1,027 | 1,494 | 2,474 | 1,910 | 2,586 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 49 | 0 | 852 | 610 | 511 | 274 | 933 | 1,927 | 1,623 | 1,689 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 476 | 462 | 1,085 | 1,065 | 408 | 446 | 110 | 142 | 99 | 779 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 180 | 624 | 488 | 666 | 407 | 307 | 419 | 336 | 172 | 98 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 22 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 777 | 913 | 193 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 55 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 16 | 9 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 3,175 | 3,535 | 2,670 | 4,196 | 4,467 | 2,759 | 1,725 | 3,626 | 2,165 | 1,057 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 0 | 133 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 21 | 136 | 111 | 139 | 127 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 123 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 37 | 72 | 82 | 80 | 153 | 14 | ||||||||||
Education | 1,720 | 1,118 | 1,129 | 1,849 | 833 | 88 | 173 | 158 | 360 | 112 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 309 | 845 | 869 | 1,725 | 3,110 | 2,017 | 697 | 2,866 | 1,242 | 627 | ||||||||||
Law | 416 | 141 | 292 | 117 | 206 | 0 | 18 | 20 | 10 | 16 | ||||||||||
Social work | 509 | 226 | 229 | 463 | 264 | 436 | 406 | 195 | 216 | 118 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 49 | 26 | 11 | 23 | 4 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 49 | 1,042 | 138 | 4 | 8 | 95 | 213 | 196 | 45 | 43 |
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 | 82,740 | 42,170 | 355 | 22,991 | 5,459 | 11,584 | 181 | |||||||
Science | 78,006 | 40,857 | 344 | 21,859 | 5,404 | 9,379 | 163 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 1,221 | 429 | 5 | 106 | 49 | 594 | 38 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 3,879 | 224 | 34 | 2,555 | 117 | 922 | 27 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 3,879 | 224 | 34 | 2,555 | 117 | 922 | 27 | |||||||
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 | 66,726 | 37,400 | 305 | 17,933 | 5,238 | 5,752 | 98 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 25,694 | 13,688 | 0 | 8,995 | 789 | 2,222 | 0 | |||||||
Health sciences | 40,671 | 23,675 | 305 | 8,869 | 4,449 | 3,275 | 98 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 361 | 37 | 0 | 69 | 0 | 255 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 192 | 165 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 21 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 3,579 | 2,088 | 0 | 1,036 | 0 | 455 | 0 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 3,510 | 2,081 | 0 | 974 | 0 | 455 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 69 | 7 | 0 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 435 | 236 | 0 | 135 | 0 | 64 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences | 1,974 | 315 | 0 | 88 | 0 | 1,571 | 0 | |||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 1,402 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,402 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 66 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 327 | 243 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 60 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 179 | 72 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 106 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 1,559 | 768 | 0 | 348 | 0 | 443 | 0 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 49 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 476 | 166 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 130 | 0 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 180 | 87 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 77 | 0 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 22 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 777 | 493 | 0 | 71 | 0 | 213 | 0 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 55 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 3,175 | 545 | 11 | 784 | 55 | 1,762 | 18 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 123 | 6 | 0 | 90 | 0 | 27 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 1,720 | 115 | 11 | 290 | 54 | 1,250 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 309 | 21 | 0 | 80 | 0 | 195 | 13 | |||||||
Law | 416 | 0 | 0 | 230 | 0 | 186 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 509 | 354 | 0 | 47 | 1 | 102 | 5 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 49 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 49 | 49 | 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 | 42,170 | 41,411 | 34,419 | 34,275 | 28,121 | 27,436 | 26,813 | 27,580 | 30,071 | 31,645 | ||||||||||
DOD | 1,708 | 1,577 | 1,763 | 1,817 | 739 | 585 | 335 | 565 | 1,416 | 2,027 | ||||||||||
DOE | 216 | 285 | 311 | 223 | 33 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
HHS | 36,317 | 34,263 | 26,777 | 27,200 | 22,784 | 23,745 | 22,382 | 23,040 | 24,412 | 26,074 | ||||||||||
NASA | 251 | 208 | 62 | 179 | 197 | 155 | 240 | 270 | 412 | 197 | ||||||||||
NSF | 2,652 | 2,799 | 4,139 | 3,140 | 2,516 | 1,549 | 1,016 | 1,187 | 1,375 | 1,024 | ||||||||||
USDA | 64 | 67 | 79 | 30 | 77 | 25 | 8 | 35 | 24 | 0 | ||||||||||
Other | 962 | 2,212 | 1,288 | 1,686 | 1,775 | 1,343 | 2,831 | 2,483 | 2,432 | 2,323 |
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 | 1,425 | 228 | 1,197 | . | |||
2018 | 1,493 | 231 | 1,262 | . | |||
2017 | 1,561 | 243 | 1,318 | . | |||
2016 | 1,541 | 238 | 1,303 | . |
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 | 926 | 891 | 889 | 882 | 828 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 20 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 297 | 297 | 296 | 266 | 301 |
Computer and information sciences | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
Engineering | 43 | 26 | 26 | 23 | 23 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 34 | 31 | 30 | 55 | 50 |
Health sciences | 445 | 436 | 437 | 435 | 339 |
Mathematics and statistics | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Natural resources and conservation | 14 | 13 | 13 | 0 | . |
Physical sciences | 45 | 47 | 47 | 39 | 52 |
Psychology | 33 | 32 | 32 | 37 | 30 |
Social sciences | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Field | Planned to start in FY 2022 or FY 2023 | Started in FY 2020 or FY 2021 | Started in FY 2018 or FY 2019 | Started in FY 2016 or FY 2017 | Started in FY 2014 or FY 2015 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 349,000 | . | 10,000 | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 238,000 | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | . | . | 1,500 | . | . |
Engineering | . | . | 3,000 | . | . |
Health sciences | 111,000 | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | . | . | 5,500 | . | . |
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 | 46,463 | 32,202 | 50,529 | 15,511 | 81,081 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,596 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 36,699 | 12,144 | 39,383 | 3,807 | 40,285 |
Computer and information sciences | 2,500 | 0 | 310 | 0 | 261 |
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 1,080 | 784 | 17,271 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 3,000 | 0 | 4,683 | 6,254 | 14,578 |
Health sciences | 4,264 | 12,124 | 5,073 | 3,983 | 2,293 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 261 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 7,934 | 0 | 685 | 1,433 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,102 |
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.