Stevens Institute of Technology

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 | |
2021 | 206 | 46.4 | 448 | 76 | 11.8 | 691 | 357 | 61.6 | 583 | 220 | 24.9 | 909 |
2020 | 198 | 44.4 | 450 | 110 | 16.5 | 697 | 209 | 23.5 | 915 | |||
2019 | 211 | 47.6 | 447 | 78 | 12 | 696 | 352 | 60.1 | 589 | 229 | 25.8 | 913 |
2018 | 213 | 50.2 | 428 | 82 | 12.5 | 698 | 231 | 26 | 910 | |||
2017 | 197 | 46.8 | 425 | 75 | 11.7 | 684 | 321 | 56.2 | 575 | 222 | 25.4 | 897 |
2016 | 211 | 49.5 | 430 | 97 | 14.7 | 697 | 219 | 25.1 | 895 | |||
2015 | 206 | 48.8 | 426 | 101 | 15.3 | 693 | 319 | 56.3 | 570 | 222 | 25.4 | 897 |
2014 | 220 | 52.5 | 422 | 126 | 19 | 688 | 224 | 25.9 | 887 | |||
2013 | 200 | 48.4 | 417 | 146 | 26.9 | 555 | 321 | 55 | 588 | 234 | 27.1 | 884 |
2012 | 207 | 50.6 | 412 | 120 | 22.3 | 555 | 234 | 26.9 | 892 |
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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All fields | 50 | 54 | 51 | 49 | 57 | 50 | 55 | 44 | 49 | 46 |
Science and engineering | 47 | 49 | 48 | 40 | 50 | 44 | 52 | 41 | 47 | 43 |
Science | 14 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 17 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 15 |
Life science | 2 | 2 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | 3 | 2 |
Biological sciences | 2 | 2 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | 3 | 2 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | 3 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 10 |
Chemistry | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | 2 | 1 | . | . | . |
Physics and astronomy | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 5 |
Mathematics and computer sciences | 9 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
Computer sciences | 5 | 4 | 4 | . | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Mathematics | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Engineering | 33 | 31 | 34 | 28 | 33 | 25 | 34 | 24 | 33 | 28 |
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological/biomedical sciences | 1 | 6 | . | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Chemical engineering | 1 | 2 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Civil engineering | . | . | 2 | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | . |
Electrical engineering | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 |
Materials/metallurgical engineering | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | . | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
Mechanical engineering | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Other engineering | 20 | 9 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 16 | 13 |
Non-science and engineering | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Education | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | . | . |
Education research | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | . | . |
Other | 3 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Business management/administration | 3 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All full-time students | 2,085 | 1,337 | 1,875 | 1,785 | 1,968 | 1,565 | 1,572 | 1,203 | 985 | 1,194 |
Male | 1,574 | 1,014 | 1,409 | 1,356 | 1,458 | 1,137 | 1,140 | 910 | 767 | 888 |
Female | 511 | 323 | 466 | 429 | 510 | 428 | 432 | 293 | 218 | 306 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 369 | 299 | 247 | 242 | 251 | 173 | 214 | 221 | 159 | 242 |
Hispanic or Latino | 17 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 17 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 276 | 280 | 220 | 220 | 221 | 144 | 135 | 133 | 94 | 176 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Asian | 65 | 68 | 58 | 53 | 51 | 39 | 48 | 38 | 24 | 60 |
Black or African American | 10 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 7 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 192 | 204 | 152 | 155 | 155 | 94 | 80 | 89 | 66 | 108 |
More than one race | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 76 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 26 | 22 | 71 | 83 | 56 | 49 |
Temporary visa holders | 1,716 | 1,038 | 1,628 | 1,543 | 1,717 | 1,392 | 1,358 | 982 | 826 | 952 |
Science and engineering | 2,084 | 1,333 | 1,872 | 1,783 | 1,968 | 1,565 | 1,572 | 1,203 | 985 | 1,194 |
Science | 1,350 | 564 | 1,050 | 1,049 | 1,195 | 812 | 530 | 420 | 311 | 295 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 21 | 21 | 26 | 22 | 27 | . | . | . | . | . |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 1,047 | 427 | 717 | 690 | 785 | 436 | 389 | 298 | 200 | 225 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 195 | 27 | 202 | 231 | 283 | 255 | 29 | 28 | 29 | 29 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 87 | 89 | 104 | 105 | 99 | 121 | 112 | 94 | 82 | 41 |
Social sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Engineering | 734 | 769 | 822 | 734 | 773 | 753 | 1,042 | 783 | 674 | 899 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 57 | 52 | 47 | 41 | 41 | . | . | 0 | 0 | 33 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 18 | 23 | 30 | 28 | 31 | 111 | 119 | 73 | 60 | 117 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 140 | 114 | 147 | 166 | 155 | 124 | 112 | 95 | 108 | 111 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 257 | 312 | 360 | 286 | 292 | 295 | 359 | 365 | 324 | 285 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 47 | 63 | 61 | 62 | 60 | 79 | 262 | 127 | 73 | 206 |
Mechanical engineering | 160 | 152 | 128 | 112 | 134 | 141 | 185 | 123 | 109 | 143 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 27 | . | . | 1 | 5 | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 28 | 53 | 49 | 38 | 55 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Health | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All part-time students | 977 | 549 | 560 | 593 | 624 | 512 | 530 | 414 | 584 | 748 |
Male | 760 | 417 | 406 | 442 | 467 | 399 | 420 | 331 | 465 | 621 |
Female | 217 | 132 | 154 | 151 | 157 | 113 | 110 | 83 | 119 | 127 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 925 | 538 | 541 | 582 | 610 | 502 | 530 | 398 | 518 | 742 |
Hispanic or Latino | 30 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 24 | 45 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 737 | 471 | 443 | 403 | 397 | 313 | 239 | 150 | 253 | 419 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 15 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
Asian | 181 | 97 | 105 | 102 | 92 | 67 | 53 | 27 | 51 | 95 |
Black or African American | 64 | 37 | 42 | 41 | 31 | 27 | 18 | 2 | 10 | 23 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 466 | 328 | 288 | 255 | 272 | 219 | 168 | 121 | 186 | 296 |
More than one race | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 158 | 59 | 93 | 175 | 208 | 186 | 280 | 238 | 241 | 278 |
Temporary visa holders | 52 | 11 | 19 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 16 | 66 | 6 |
Science and engineering | 975 | 547 | 558 | 591 | 623 | 512 | 530 | 414 | 584 | 748 |
Science | 349 | 107 | 193 | 195 | 230 | 141 | 97 | 110 | 134 | 119 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 289 | 84 | 146 | 145 | 177 | 68 | 65 | 65 | 100 | 79 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 47 | 8 | 35 | 35 | 41 | 50 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 36 | 24 | 27 |
Social sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Engineering | 626 | 440 | 365 | 396 | 393 | 371 | 433 | 304 | 450 | 629 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 12 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 16 | . | . | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 15 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 22 | 24 | 33 | 37 | 43 | 44 | 41 | 37 | 71 | 59 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 88 | 84 | 73 | 69 | 68 | 59 | 60 | 44 | 74 | 79 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 425 | 244 | 180 | 194 | 171 | 176 | 234 | 150 | 221 | 314 |
Mechanical engineering | 74 | 69 | 58 | 66 | 84 | 81 | 91 | 64 | 70 | 155 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 4 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Health | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 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).
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All surveyed fields | 75 | 56 | 72 | 64 | 18 | 54 | 84 | 72 | 67 | 74 |
Science and engineering | 75 | 56 | 72 | 64 | 18 | 54 | 84 | 72 | 67 | 74 |
Science | 38 | 20 | 35 | 33 | 11 | 24 | 34 | 24 | 21 | 21 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 24 | 8 | 20 | 18 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 10 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 11 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 21 | 11 | 12 | 11 |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Social sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Engineering | 37 | 36 | 37 | 31 | 7 | 30 | 50 | 48 | 46 | 53 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 20 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 15 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 18 | 16 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
Mechanical engineering | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 4 | . | . | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All types and sources of support | 2,085 | 1,337 | 1,875 | 1,785 | 1,968 | 1,565 | 1,572 | 1,203 | 985 | 1,194 |
Fellowships | 85 | 41 | 26 | 41 | 44 | 52 | 41 | 31 | 24 | 30 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 85 | 41 | 26 | 41 | 44 | 52 | 28 | 31 | 24 | 30 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Research assistantships | 78 | 68 | 78 | 72 | 19 | 78 | 94 | 135 | 120 | 139 |
Federal | 63 | 56 | 72 | 64 | 18 | 54 | 64 | 68 | 64 | 73 |
Institutional | 8 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 14 | 53 | 44 | 54 |
Nonfederal | 7 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 12 |
Teaching assistantships | 294 | 221 | 318 | 276 | 95 | 302 | 136 | 111 | 97 | 94 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Institutional | 294 | 221 | 318 | 276 | 95 | 302 | 126 | 106 | 93 | 92 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Other types of support | 1,628 | 1,007 | 1,453 | 1,396 | 1,810 | 1,133 | 1,301 | 926 | 744 | 931 |
Federal | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Institutional | 286 | 75 | 45 | 38 | 6 | 42 | 246 | 24 | 17 | 22 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Personal resources | 1,330 | 932 | 1,408 | 1,358 | 1,804 | 1,091 | 1,055 | 901 | 726 | 908 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
All races | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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Science and engineering | 73 | 73 | 88 | 39 | 43 | 53 | 23 | 15 | 21 | 10 |
Science | 17 | 17 | 32 | 17 | 16 | 35 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 11 | 11 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
Social sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Engineering | 56 | 56 | 56 | 22 | 27 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 5 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 26 | 26 | 14 | 5 | 4 | . | . | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 12 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Mechanical engineering | 8 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | . | . | 0 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All surveyed fields | 25 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 37 | 35 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
Science and engineering | 25 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 37 | 35 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
Science | 5 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Engineering | 20 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 25 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Mechanical engineering | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | . | . | 0 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 43,386 | 44,747 | 36,695 | 33,060 | 35,144 | 35,765 | 34,082 | 30,826 | 28,908 | 31,929 | ||||||||||
Science | 7,330 | 9,537 | 9,645 | 9,169 | 9,838 | 10,443 | 7,390 | 5,047 | 4,323 | 4,129 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 4,984 | 3,606 | 3,666 | 3,169 | 2,253 | 1,945 | 2,119 | 1,866 | 1,399 | 954 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 3,527 | 3,365 | 3,931 | 5,324 | 6,146 | 3,872 | 1,177 | 1,795 | 2,199 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 699 | 854 | 732 | 1,250 | 1,782 | 2,572 | 66 | 29 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 0 | 0 | 3 | 258 | 421 | 46 | 0 | 1 | 192 | 0 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 351 | 174 | 153 | 663 | 606 | 365 | 295 | 437 | 415 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 2,477 | 2,334 | 2,788 | 2,990 | 3,712 | 935 | 815 | 1,137 | 1,784 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 94 | 203 | 33 | 83 | 97 | 257 | 252 | 750 | 280 | 68 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 83 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 94 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 42 | 125 | 125 | 46 | 54 | 68 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 109 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 203 | 33 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 704 | 226 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 56 | 37 | 237 | 258 | 287 | 164 | 210 | 234 | 174 | 178 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 2,066 | 1,834 | 2,045 | 1,520 | 1,461 | 1,226 | 503 | 606 | 391 | 716 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 548 | 10 | 0 | 51 | 138 | 87 | 140 | 74 | 11 | 124 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 1,518 | 1,824 | 2,045 | 1,469 | 1,323 | 1,139 | 363 | 532 | 380 | 592 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 25 | 97 | 49 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 25 | 74 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 47 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 130 | 330 | 299 | 208 | 401 | 680 | 337 | 365 | 284 | 14 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 33,983 | 33,103 | 25,832 | 22,396 | 24,180 | 23,970 | 25,652 | 23,870 | 22,465 | 25,764 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 47 | 126 | 41 | 0 | 94 | 82 | 56 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 1,348 | 1,590 | 1,496 | 1,730 | 1,779 | 1,677 | 1,027 | 753 | 618 | 736 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 736 | 1,353 | 1,268 | 810 | 843 | 733 | 1,218 | 1,435 | 924 | 850 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 5,119 | 492 | 388 | 427 | 420 | 408 | 533 | 798 | 535 | 235 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 3,125 | 2,248 | 1,303 | 948 | 1,192 | 779 | 764 | 923 | 1,818 | 1,035 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 3,905 | 1,862 | 1,324 | 739 | 626 | 775 | 868 | 1,795 | 1,741 | 1,798 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 40 | 87 | 169 | 200 | 236 | 63 | 119 | 480 | 645 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 19,750 | 25,471 | 19,840 | 17,532 | 19,120 | 19,268 | 21,097 | 17,991 | 16,349 | 20,465 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 2,073 | 2,107 | 1,218 | 1,495 | 1,126 | 1,352 | 1,040 | 1,909 | 2,120 | 2,036 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 638 | 702 | 240 | 86 | 82 | 423 | 303 | 475 | 439 | 631 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 430 | 8 | 27 | 301 | 668 | 743 | 559 | 884 | 1,618 | 1,354 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 1,005 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 90 | 68 | 23 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 0 | 638 | 346 | 517 | 242 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 759 | 603 | 579 | 130 | 96 | 110 | 527 | 63 | 51 |
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 | 43,386 | 33,998 | 1,642 | 5,491 | 1,403 | 675 | 177 | |||||||
Science | 7,330 | 5,859 | 0 | 1,303 | 98 | 70 | 0 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 4,984 | 4,104 | 0 | 880 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 94 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 94 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |||||||
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 56 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 2,066 | 1,500 | 0 | 423 | 98 | 45 | 0 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 548 | 258 | 0 | 213 | 32 | 45 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 1,518 | 1,242 | 0 | 210 | 66 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 130 | 130 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 33,983 | 26,766 | 1,212 | 4,159 | 1,305 | 364 | 177 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 1,348 | 1,037 | 0 | 269 | 0 | 35 | 7 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 736 | 639 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 15 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 5,119 | 4,616 | 32 | 460 | 1 | 10 | 0 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 3,125 | 2,572 | 0 | 437 | 11 | 105 | 0 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 3,905 | 2,636 | 0 | 910 | 134 | 149 | 76 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 19,750 | 15,266 | 1,180 | 2,083 | 1,077 | 50 | 94 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 2,073 | 1,373 | 430 | 29 | 0 | 241 | 0 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 638 | 371 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 241 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 430 | 0 | 430 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 1,005 | 1,002 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Federal Agencies | 33,998 | 33,461 | 28,342 | 26,281 | 26,855 | 28,999 | 25,980 | 23,656 | 24,812 | 27,420 | ||||||||||
DOD | 21,258 | 21,663 | 17,280 | 14,017 | 11,849 | 13,180 | 11,330 | 10,516 | 11,712 | 14,086 | ||||||||||
DOE | 1,673 | 294 | 56 | 64 | 45 | 210 | 341 | 738 | 322 | 395 | ||||||||||
HHS | 1,883 | 1,813 | 1,624 | 1,422 | 1,388 | 1,217 | 1,455 | 1,323 | 613 | 531 | ||||||||||
NASA | 720 | 286 | 166 | 225 | 427 | 309 | 183 | 613 | 1,075 | 827 | ||||||||||
NSF | 6,391 | 5,515 | 5,166 | 5,451 | 6,831 | 7,170 | 6,328 | 6,748 | 6,858 | 6,563 | ||||||||||
USDA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||||||||||
Other | 2,073 | 3,890 | 4,050 | 5,102 | 6,260 | 6,830 | 6,343 | 3,718 | 4,222 | 5,018 |
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 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | . | . | . | . | |||
2020 | . | . | . | . | |||
2019 | 490 | 110 | 380 | . | |||
2018 | 517 | 113 | 404 | . | |||
2017 | 490 | 104 | 386 | . | |||
2016 | 502 | 106 | 396 | . | |||
2015 | 448 | 114 | 334 | 25 |
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 | 86 | 84 | 99 | 91 | 90 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Computer and information sciences | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
Engineering | 40 | 37 | 51 | 51 | 50 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 17 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Health sciences | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . |
Physical sciences | 10 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
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 | 570 | . | 8,674 | 1,940 | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | . | . | 1,708 | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | . | . | 3,593 | 1,940 | . |
Engineering | 570 | . | . | . | . |
Health sciences | . | . | 3,373 | . | . |
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 | 2,950 | 1,478 | 3,961 | 5,573 | 542 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 450 | 286 | 1,855 | 289 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 968 | 0 |
Engineering | 890 | 250 | 605 | 270 | 257 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1,610 | 564 | 761 | 3,600 | 285 |
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 372 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 368 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 377 | 0 | 446 | 0 |
Psychology | 0 | 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.