U. California, Davis

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 | 26 | 6.5 | 448 | 32 | 5.4 | 691 | 8 | 2.2 | 583 | 34 | 4.6 | 909 |
2020 | 27 | 6.7 | 450 | 30 | 5.1 | 697 | 32 | 4.4 | 915 | |||
2019 | 22 | 5.7 | 447 | 30 | 5.1 | 696 | 6 | 1.8 | 589 | 30 | 4.2 | 913 |
2018 | 20 | 5.4 | 428 | 26 | 4.6 | 698 | 30 | 4.2 | 910 | |||
2017 | 22 | 5.9 | 425 | 27 | 4.8 | 684 | 5 | 1.7 | 575 | 30 | 4.2 | 897 |
2016 | 22 | 5.8 | 430 | 30 | 5.1 | 697 | 27 | 3.9 | 895 | |||
2015 | 20 | 5.4 | 426 | 28 | 4.9 | 693 | 5 | 1.7 | 570 | 26 | 3.8 | 897 |
2014 | 24 | 6.4 | 422 | 31 | 5.3 | 688 | 25 | 3.7 | 887 | |||
2013 | 18 | 5 | 417 | 32 | 6.5 | 555 | 7 | 2 | 588 | 25 | 3.7 | 884 |
2012 | 18 | 5.1 | 412 | 32 | 6.5 | 555 | 21 | 3.2 | 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 | 465 | 498 | 521 | 546 | 505 | 501 | 539 | 488 | 569 | 552 |
Science and engineering | 422 | 437 | 471 | 476 | 464 | 449 | 478 | 423 | 512 | 481 |
Science | 352 | 356 | 398 | 383 | 377 | 366 | 400 | 354 | 414 | 392 |
Life science | 181 | 184 | 203 | 197 | 201 | 194 | 198 | 181 | 224 | 200 |
Agricultural sciences | 51 | 42 | 51 | 45 | 43 | 39 | 35 | 28 | 36 | 29 |
Biological sciences | 119 | 132 | 144 | 143 | 146 | 141 | 160 | 143 | 171 | 155 |
Health sciences | 11 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 16 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | 65 | 57 | 71 | 79 | 57 | 67 | 81 | 65 | 76 | 72 |
Chemistry | 35 | 29 | 31 | 35 | 27 | 29 | 44 | 33 | 41 | 37 |
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 10 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 12 | 6 |
Physics and astronomy | 20 | 14 | 26 | 30 | 12 | 28 | 23 | 25 | 23 | 29 |
Mathematics and computer sciences | 45 | 45 | 48 | 40 | 44 | 35 | 45 | 40 | 47 | 42 |
Computer sciences | 11 | 21 | 24 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 27 | 22 | 27 | 19 |
Mathematics | 34 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 23 |
Psychology and social sciences | 61 | 70 | 76 | 67 | 75 | 70 | 76 | 68 | 67 | 78 |
Psychology | 16 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 20 | 17 | 18 | 21 | 20 |
Anthropology | 6 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
Economics | 17 | 11 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 21 | 14 | 24 |
Political science and government | 4 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
Sociology | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 4 |
Other social sciences | 16 | 24 | 22 | 12 | 17 | 24 | 25 | 13 | 18 | 10 |
Engineering | 70 | 81 | 73 | 93 | 87 | 83 | 78 | 69 | 98 | 89 |
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering | 3 | 4 | . | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
Biological/biomedical sciences | 14 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 18 |
Chemical engineering | 9 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 4 |
Civil engineering | 7 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 9 |
Electrical engineering | 13 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 11 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 21 |
Industrial engineering | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Materials/metallurgical engineering | 5 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 8 |
Mechanical engineering | 5 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
Other engineering | 12 | 12 | 17 | 23 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 19 | 22 |
Non-science and engineering | 43 | 61 | 50 | 70 | 41 | 52 | 61 | 65 | 57 | 71 |
Education | 9 | 15 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 13 | 10 |
Education administration | . | 5 | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Education research | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | . | 6 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 7 |
Teacher education | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | . | 1 |
Teaching fields | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Other education | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | . |
Humanities | 28 | 44 | 36 | 50 | 32 | 37 | 46 | 50 | 44 | 58 |
Foreign languages & literature | 4 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 11 |
History | 4 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 11 |
Letters | 10 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 22 |
Other humanities and arts | 10 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 10 | 14 |
Other | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | . | 3 |
Business management/administration | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 |
Communication | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | . | . | 2 |
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec) | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
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 | 4,551 | 4,306 | 4,245 | 4,281 | 4,079 | 3,938 | 3,884 | 3,761 | 3,617 | 3,537 |
Male | 2,275 | 2,172 | 2,160 | 2,191 | 2,101 | 2,041 | 2,050 | 2,062 | 2,018 | 1,911 |
Female | 2,276 | 2,134 | 2,085 | 2,090 | 1,978 | 1,897 | 1,834 | 1,699 | 1,599 | 1,626 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 3,007 | 2,885 | 2,772 | 2,834 | 2,774 | 2,692 | 2,735 | 2,682 | 2,650 | 2,673 |
Hispanic or Latino | 458 | 396 | 360 | 337 | 297 | 250 | 248 | 235 | 218 | 218 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 2,498 | 2,431 | 2,362 | 2,442 | 2,416 | 2,360 | 2,372 | 2,308 | 2,268 | 2,255 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 44 | 45 | 50 | 45 | 39 | 49 | 50 | 48 | 52 | 49 |
Asian | 636 | 606 | 574 | 574 | 525 | 495 | 465 | 453 | 475 | 465 |
Black or African American | 149 | 147 | 128 | 136 | 109 | 90 | 71 | 72 | 65 | 58 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 12 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 12 |
White | 1,657 | 1,621 | 1,600 | 1,681 | 1,739 | 1,723 | 1,780 | 1,727 | 1,667 | 1,671 |
More than one race | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 51 | 58 | 50 | 55 | 61 | 82 | 115 | 139 | 164 | 200 |
Temporary visa holders | 1,544 | 1,421 | 1,473 | 1,447 | 1,305 | 1,246 | 1,149 | 1,079 | 967 | 864 |
Science and engineering | 4,318 | 4,072 | 3,993 | 3,988 | 3,827 | 3,755 | 3,727 | 3,714 | 3,579 | 3,491 |
Science | 3,346 | 3,171 | 3,098 | 3,068 | 2,983 | 2,992 | 2,980 | 2,947 | 2,854 | 2,791 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 413 | 409 | 380 | 395 | 396 | 378 | 379 | 368 | 347 | 321 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 1,018 | 985 | 961 | 946 | 945 | 866 | 879 | 896 | 875 | 903 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 29 | 23 | 22 | 17 | 13 |
Computer and information sciences | 310 | 251 | 262 | 241 | 193 | 197 | 189 | 171 | 182 | 176 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 19 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 8 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 116 | 100 | 107 | 113 | 106 | 110 | 107 | 115 | 106 | 83 |
Mathematics and statistics | 260 | 235 | 233 | 232 | 233 | 222 | 245 | 219 | 192 | 158 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 41 | 41 |
Natural resources and conservation | 56 | 28 | 33 | 22 | 7 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 45 | 44 | 43 | 43 | 47 |
Physical sciences | 465 | 460 | 431 | 435 | 432 | 423 | 417 | 397 | 397 | 395 |
Psychology | 148 | 147 | 141 | 131 | 127 | 120 | 117 | 110 | 122 | 123 |
Social sciences | 560 | 556 | 550 | 553 | 544 | 548 | 527 | 552 | 519 | 523 |
Engineering | 972 | 901 | 895 | 920 | 844 | 763 | 747 | 767 | 725 | 700 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 114 | 103 | 99 | 92 | 79 | 81 | 85 | 99 | 101 | 113 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 75 | 70 | 79 | 76 | 60 | 58 | 51 | 46 | 46 | 50 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 266 | 247 | 233 | 252 | 242 | 182 | 173 | 192 | 167 | 172 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 225 | 210 | 241 | 242 | 202 | 216 | 201 | 185 | 170 | 140 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 163 | 143 | 125 | 133 | 135 | 125 | 131 | 137 | 143 | 125 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 63 | 64 | 59 | 64 | 74 | 51 | 58 | 58 | 44 | 46 |
Other engineering | 66 | 64 | 59 | 61 | 52 | 50 | 48 | 50 | 54 | 54 |
Health | 233 | 234 | 252 | 293 | 252 | 183 | 157 | 47 | 38 | 46 |
Clinical medicine | 95 | 70 | 59 | 56 | 48 | 70 | 66 | 46 | 38 | 46 |
Other health | 138 | 164 | 193 | 237 | 204 | 113 | 91 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
All races | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All part-time students | 76 | 79 | 89 | 62 | 61 | 68 | 64 | 66 | 66 | 91 |
Male | 52 | 50 | 53 | 36 | 42 | 34 | 42 | 44 | 42 | 57 |
Female | 24 | 29 | 36 | 26 | 19 | 34 | 22 | 22 | 24 | 34 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 70 | 77 | 88 | 61 | 59 | 63 | 61 | 62 | 62 | 87 |
Hispanic or Latino | 5 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 63 | 63 | 68 | 54 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 52 | 48 | 72 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Asian | 15 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 14 | 15 |
Black or African American | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 44 | 43 | 48 | 37 | 35 | 41 | 43 | 35 | 33 | 53 |
More than one race | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 |
Temporary visa holders | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Science and engineering | 69 | 70 | 80 | 54 | 56 | 68 | 62 | 65 | 64 | 89 |
Science | 29 | 32 | 41 | 28 | 31 | 45 | 40 | 39 | 36 | 57 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 5 | 10 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 6 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 13 | 27 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 8 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 8 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Mathematics and statistics | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 3 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Social sciences | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
Engineering | 40 | 38 | 39 | 26 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 26 | 28 | 32 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 9 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 6 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 21 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 13 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 4 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Other engineering | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Health | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Clinical medicine | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Other health | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 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 | 875 | 938 | 982 | 822 | 968 | 770 | 801 | 333 | 399 | 528 |
Science and engineering | 870 | 934 | 979 | 821 | 857 | 764 | 795 | 332 | 396 | 526 |
Science | 612 | 686 | 720 | 657 | 653 | 599 | 636 | 289 | 333 | 422 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 54 | 53 | 54 | 47 | 52 | 36 | 40 | 15 | 18 | 17 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 320 | 349 | 355 | 319 | 317 | 291 | 281 | 159 | 173 | 210 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 52 | 58 | 62 | 49 | 54 | 41 | 62 | 17 | 25 | 40 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 32 | 24 | 29 | 24 | 39 | 31 | 32 | 17 | 18 | 13 |
Mathematics and statistics | 9 | 17 | 22 | 21 | 24 | 21 | 27 | 12 | 10 | 15 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 5 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 24 | 27 | 15 | 10 | 15 |
Physical sciences | 85 | 115 | 125 | 126 | 85 | 82 | 91 | 23 | 36 | 59 |
Psychology | 35 | 45 | 41 | 33 | 33 | 30 | 27 | 13 | 22 | 29 |
Social sciences | 25 | 25 | 32 | 38 | 48 | 34 | 30 | 11 | 15 | 19 |
Engineering | 258 | 248 | 259 | 164 | 204 | 165 | 159 | 43 | 63 | 104 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 38 | 35 | 36 | 35 | 41 | 33 | 31 | 14 | 19 | 28 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 26 | 22 | 28 | 28 | 26 | 22 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 38 | 40 | 42 | 33 | 49 | 26 | 31 | 4 | 7 | 10 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 73 | 76 | 80 | 30 | 42 | 34 | 32 | 4 | 12 | 25 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 25 | 27 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 7 | 10 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 30 | 29 | 32 | 11 | 22 | 21 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
Other engineering | 28 | 19 | 23 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 14 |
Health | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 111 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Clinical medicine | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Other health | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 89 | 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 | 4,551 | 4,306 | 4,245 | 4,281 | 4,079 | 3,938 | 3,884 | 3,761 | 3,617 | 3,537 |
Fellowships | 474 | 540 | 711 | 950 | 885 | 936 | 843 | 1,518 | 1,296 | 1,211 |
Federal | 73 | 121 | 202 | 205 | 214 | 226 | 222 | 221 | 254 | 251 |
Institutional | 401 | 419 | 509 | 745 | 671 | 710 | 621 | 1,297 | 1,042 | 960 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Research assistantships | 1,730 | 1,718 | 1,564 | 1,112 | 1,032 | 1,003 | 1,096 | 204 | 251 | 470 |
Federal | 793 | 805 | 763 | 617 | 563 | 544 | 579 | 112 | 145 | 277 |
Institutional | 937 | 913 | 801 | 495 | 469 | 459 | 517 | 92 | 106 | 193 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Teaching assistantships | 1,634 | 1,420 | 1,268 | 1,342 | 1,320 | 1,263 | 1,238 | 208 | 263 | 387 |
Federal | 9 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 1,625 | 1,408 | 1,251 | 1,342 | 1,320 | 1,263 | 1,238 | 208 | 263 | 387 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other types of support | 713 | 628 | 702 | 877 | 842 | 736 | 707 | 1,831 | 1,807 | 1,469 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 191 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nonfederal | 40 | 43 | 41 | 54 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Personal resources | 673 | 585 | 661 | 823 | 588 | 733 | 704 | 1,831 | 1,807 | 1,469 |
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 | 525 | 1,248 | 838 | 694 | 658 | 682 | 679 | 613 | 633 | 620 |
Science | 480 | 1,075 | 721 | 592 | 555 | 566 | 560 | 491 | 509 | 509 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 123 | 261 | 109 | 52 | 54 | 75 | 70 | 55 | 57 | 63 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 247 | 550 | 409 | 356 | 336 | 318 | 309 | 275 | 291 | 286 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 13 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 22 | 74 | 49 | 44 | 33 | 42 | 39 | 39 | 38 | 40 |
Mathematics and statistics | 9 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 16 | 35 | 28 | 19 | 25 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 24 | 28 | 18 | 15 | 15 |
Physical sciences | 48 | 98 | 62 | 66 | 61 | 46 | 48 | 51 | 58 | 58 |
Psychology | 5 | 14 | 23 | 17 | 22 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 17 | 19 |
Social sciences | 10 | 29 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 7 |
Engineering | 45 | 173 | 117 | 102 | 103 | 116 | 119 | 122 | 124 | 111 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 17 | 35 | 23 | 24 | 30 | 38 | 37 | 37 | 33 | 27 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 13 | 12 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 11 | 44 | 31 | 26 | 25 | 23 | 24 | 21 | 29 | 30 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 4 | 36 | 12 | 18 | 19 | 24 | 15 | 20 | 17 | 9 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 1 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 13 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 9 |
Other engineering | 5 | 39 | 36 | 19 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 11 |
Health | 69 | 172 | 182 | 191 | 173 | 155 | 154 | 152 | 146 | 137 |
Clinical medicine | 64 | 155 | 90 | 102 | 94 | 82 | 91 | 99 | 94 | 88 |
Other health | 5 | 17 | 92 | 89 | 79 | 73 | 63 | 53 | 52 | 49 |
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 | 410 | 628 | 454 | 488 | 450 | 460 | 448 | 443 | 463 | 455 |
Science and engineering | 359 | 532 | 376 | 376 | 358 | 373 | 368 | 370 | 380 | 387 |
Science | 318 | 459 | 332 | 319 | 298 | 315 | 310 | 303 | 317 | 325 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 67 | 82 | 27 | 25 | 19 | 32 | 26 | 14 | 20 | 21 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 174 | 260 | 200 | 191 | 191 | 175 | 179 | 180 | 178 | 181 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 17 | 29 | 17 | 24 | 14 | 23 | 29 | 25 | 23 | 25 |
Mathematics and statistics | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 6 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 13 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 12 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 14 |
Psychology | 4 | 5 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 14 |
Physical sciences | 37 | 49 | 40 | 39 | 39 | 32 | 33 | 39 | 49 | 47 |
Social sciences | 6 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 4 |
Engineering | 41 | 73 | 44 | 57 | 60 | 58 | 58 | 67 | 63 | 62 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 12 | 21 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 17 | 23 | 21 | 19 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 11 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 11 | 24 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 3 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 7 |
Other engineering | 7 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
Health | 51 | 96 | 78 | 112 | 92 | 87 | 80 | 73 | 83 | 68 |
Clinical medicine | 49 | 89 | 43 | 63 | 49 | 44 | 45 | 43 | 50 | 41 |
Other health | 2 | 7 | 35 | 49 | 43 | 43 | 35 | 30 | 33 | 27 |
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 | 817,409 | 816,693 | 804,282 | 788,832 | 738,347 | 741,892 | 721,077 | 711,721 | 725,734 | 713,292 | ||||||||||
Science | 703,016 | 706,723 | 698,907 | 685,647 | 640,912 | 636,882 | 622,814 | 613,296 | 630,003 | 621,859 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 5,934 | 7,256 | 7,562 | 7,888 | 6,818 | 9,024 | 8,007 | 8,155 | 9,411 | 9,158 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 30,603 | 30,153 | 29,166 | 27,316 | 25,750 | 26,861 | 27,637 | 27,059 | 25,299 | 26,149 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 3,995 | 3,131 | 3,445 | 2,594 | 1,631 | 1,201 | 1,438 | 1,169 | 1,141 | 1,370 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,653 | 3,248 | 3,191 | 2,997 | 4,131 | 4,792 | 4,771 | 4,320 | 4,376 | 4,394 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 4,848 | 4,860 | 4,740 | 4,752 | 3,939 | 3,642 | 3,834 | 3,513 | 3,749 | 3,592 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 20,107 | 18,914 | 17,790 | 16,973 | 16,049 | 17,226 | 17,594 | 18,057 | 16,033 | 16,793 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 590,027 | 597,962 | 593,628 | 588,300 | 540,861 | 525,165 | 512,472 | 509,743 | 523,607 | 517,086 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 143,311 | 150,069 | 153,739 | 155,642 | 141,734 | 142,581 | 137,628 | 133,761 | 135,397 | 126,845 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 199,310 | 218,316 | 224,044 | 220,855 | 200,810 | 187,520 | 163,319 | 150,801 | 153,387 | 157,278 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 247,406 | 229,577 | 215,845 | 211,803 | 198,317 | 195,064 | 211,525 | 225,181 | 234,823 | 232,963 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 4,698 | 4,455 | 4,162 | 4,436 | 3,901 | 4,240 | 3,296 | 3,805 | 4,355 | 3,704 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 27,906 | 26,495 | 26,589 | 23,212 | 27,092 | 32,156 | 35,150 | 30,938 | 31,471 | 31,274 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 14,017 | 13,607 | 13,683 | 11,110 | 12,276 | 13,683 | 12,733 | 13,554 | 13,923 | 14,220 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 9,032 | 10,195 | 10,672 | 10,035 | 10,597 | 10,455 | 10,250 | 10,246 | 9,689 | 9,993 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 4,857 | 2,693 | 2,234 | 2,067 | 4,219 | 8,018 | 12,167 | 7,138 | 7,859 | 7,061 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 3,177 | 3,022 | 2,740 | 2,256 | 2,313 | 2,608 | 3,190 | 4,450 | 4,536 | 3,473 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 30,951 | 28,486 | 27,167 | 24,402 | 26,537 | 29,254 | 26,728 | 23,559 | 23,813 | 25,931 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 8,510 | 10,182 | 11,106 | 10,048 | 12,447 | 12,546 | 11,087 | 8,981 | 8,284 | 6,621 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 7,523 | 2,972 | 773 | 909 | 970 | 1,024 | 1,298 | 1,302 | 1,397 | 1,836 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 1,341 | 1,608 | 2,827 | 1,723 | 1,559 | 1,584 | 1,214 | 1,098 | 1,362 | 1,171 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 13,577 | 13,724 | 12,461 | 11,722 | 11,561 | 14,100 | 13,129 | 12,178 | 12,770 | 16,303 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 9,720 | 8,894 | 7,893 | 7,837 | 7,640 | 7,574 | 6,334 | 5,587 | 7,511 | 5,084 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 102,370 | 97,951 | 92,277 | 89,128 | 85,557 | 89,188 | 83,273 | 86,393 | 85,867 | 83,140 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 27,314 | 22,983 | 23,576 | 22,605 | 22,813 | 22,043 | 19,673 | 20,408 | 21,082 | 19,308 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 257 | 2,488 | 3,545 | 3,087 | 2,931 | 8,893 | 10,070 | 11,803 | 11,673 | 11,521 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 45,387 | 44,957 | 39,055 | 37,121 | 35,079 | 32,146 | 29,966 | 31,385 | 29,866 | 29,160 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 12,249 | 12,137 | 13,445 | 12,018 | 11,123 | 14,298 | 11,674 | 9,755 | 10,717 | 9,032 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 10,640 | 10,049 | 8,940 | 10,269 | 9,778 | 11,773 | 11,801 | 12,644 | 11,801 | 11,046 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 6,523 | 5,337 | 3,716 | 4,028 | 3,833 | 35 | 89 | 398 | 728 | 3,073 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 12,023 | 12,019 | 13,098 | 14,057 | 11,878 | 15,822 | 14,990 | 12,032 | 9,864 | 8,293 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 221 | 206 | 211 | 538 | 717 | 318 | 344 | 401 | 214 | 102 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 283 | 559 | 387 | 239 | 190 | 127 | 89 | 88 | 119 | 61 | ||||||||||
Education | 6,543 | 6,678 | 6,824 | 8,405 | 6,361 | 10,684 | 8,943 | 5,316 | 4,636 | 4,170 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 929 | 1,140 | 1,302 | 1,134 | 1,197 | 1,606 | 1,472 | 736 | 485 | 447 | ||||||||||
Law | 869 | 652 | 799 | 736 | 497 | 523 | 574 | 694 | 212 | 58 | ||||||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 3,147 | 2,775 | 3,535 | 2,985 | 2,862 | 2,553 | 3,553 | 4,720 | 4,193 | 3,452 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 31 | 9 | 40 | 20 | 54 | 11 | 15 | 77 | 5 | 3 |
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 | 817,409 | 373,719 | 75,116 | 207,272 | 56,160 | 44,693 | 60,449 | |||||||
Science | 703,016 | 326,056 | 51,867 | 185,482 | 46,855 | 39,388 | 53,368 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 5,934 | 4,367 | 192 | 0 | 808 | 65 | 502 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 30,603 | 5,881 | 7,833 | 13,503 | 670 | 1,546 | 1,170 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 3,995 | 1,210 | 558 | 2,147 | 0 | 78 | 2 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,653 | 1,032 | 58 | 126 | 18 | 48 | 371 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 4,848 | 415 | 1,303 | 2,525 | 17 | 529 | 59 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 20,107 | 3,224 | 5,914 | 8,705 | 635 | 891 | 738 | |||||||
Life sciences | 590,027 | 279,849 | 43,093 | 141,625 | 42,561 | 34,922 | 47,977 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 143,311 | 32,317 | 17,418 | 67,526 | 5,191 | 6,003 | 14,856 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 199,310 | 120,744 | 10,470 | 34,273 | 9,926 | 11,290 | 12,607 | |||||||
Health sciences | 247,406 | 126,788 | 15,205 | 39,826 | 27,444 | 17,629 | 20,514 | |||||||
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 | 4,698 | 3,678 | 0 | 167 | 190 | 530 | 133 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 27,906 | 17,078 | 197 | 6,615 | 2,102 | 645 | 1,269 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 14,017 | 9,954 | 197 | 1,271 | 1,760 | 511 | 324 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 9,032 | 6,595 | 0 | 1,242 | 137 | 113 | 945 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 4,857 | 529 | 0 | 4,102 | 205 | 21 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 3,177 | 1,495 | 1 | 492 | 0 | 599 | 590 | |||||||
Social sciences | 30,951 | 13,706 | 551 | 13,368 | 524 | 1,081 | 1,721 | |||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 8,510 | 3,586 | 461 | 3,522 | 76 | 540 | 325 | |||||||
Political science and government | 7,523 | 3,426 | 0 | 3,408 | 2 | 21 | 666 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 1,341 | 945 | 0 | 142 | 42 | 166 | 46 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 13,577 | 5,749 | 90 | 6,296 | 404 | 354 | 684 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 9,720 | 2 | 0 | 9,712 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |||||||
Engineering | 102,370 | 43,175 | 22,756 | 18,600 | 8,547 | 2,812 | 6,480 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 27,314 | 18,445 | 1,967 | 4,430 | 871 | 582 | 1,019 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 257 | 188 | 0 | 11 | 58 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 45,387 | 6,667 | 18,441 | 11,656 | 3,641 | 1,697 | 3,285 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 12,249 | 8,697 | 24 | 832 | 1,718 | 323 | 655 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 10,640 | 4,386 | 2,293 | 1,534 | 2,018 | 46 | 363 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 6,523 | 4,792 | 31 | 137 | 241 | 164 | 1,158 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 12,023 | 4,488 | 493 | 3,190 | 758 | 2,493 | 601 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 221 | 33 | 0 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 121 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 283 | 10 | 0 | 139 | 68 | 33 | 33 | |||||||
Education | 6,543 | 3,002 | 4 | 1,255 | 16 | 1,974 | 292 | |||||||
Humanities | 929 | 406 | 0 | 259 | 117 | 119 | 28 | |||||||
Law | 869 | 0 | 0 | 502 | 44 | 317 | 6 | |||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 3,147 | 1,037 | 489 | 937 | 513 | 50 | 121 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 31 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 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 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 373,719 | 380,965 | 374,707 | 360,018 | 342,407 | 339,209 | 326,039 | 330,367 | 347,038 | 358,577 | ||||||||||
DOD | 23,219 | 19,757 | 18,306 | 14,124 | 12,239 | 17,929 | 16,867 | 17,428 | 18,873 | 14,741 | ||||||||||
DOE | 16,347 | 15,436 | 15,451 | 14,239 | 15,892 | 13,557 | 11,440 | 14,182 | 13,184 | 13,747 | ||||||||||
HHS | 236,989 | 235,290 | 215,535 | 207,494 | 191,517 | 179,504 | 175,634 | 179,343 | 191,208 | 202,958 | ||||||||||
NASA | 5,568 | 4,579 | 3,840 | 3,939 | 4,186 | 3,742 | 3,061 | 3,052 | 2,487 | 2,982 | ||||||||||
NSF | 34,803 | 36,165 | 33,320 | 34,146 | 38,421 | 45,289 | 46,911 | 44,498 | 46,257 | 46,944 | ||||||||||
USDA | 34,370 | 35,042 | 36,057 | 32,287 | 31,725 | 32,771 | 31,478 | 29,604 | 33,640 | 34,126 | ||||||||||
Other | 22,423 | 34,696 | 52,198 | 53,789 | 48,427 | 46,417 | 40,648 | 42,260 | 41,389 | 43,079 |
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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2021 | . | . | . | . | |||
2020 | . | . | . | . | |||
2019 | 10,727 | 1,197 | 9,530 | . | |||
2018 | 10,552 | 1,190 | 9,362 | . | |||
2017 | 10,561 | 1,153 | 9,408 | . | |||
2016 | 10,723 | 1,806 | 8,917 | . | |||
2015 | 10,673 | 1,637 | 9,036 | 1,119 |
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 | 3,108 | 3,089 | 3,058 | 3,052 | 2,930 |
Agricultural sciences | 881 | 758 | 752 | 745 | 712 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 895 | 927 | 912 | 905 | 891 |
Computer and information sciences | 25 | 26 | 24 | 25 | 24 |
Engineering | 331 | 327 | 321 | 304 | 309 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 85 | 84 | 84 | 80 | 52 |
Health sciences | 408 | 510 | 520 | 538 | 521 |
Mathematics and statistics | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
Natural resources and conservation | 29 | 26 | 25 | 25 | . |
Physical sciences | 188 | 182 | 183 | 190 | 190 |
Psychology | 38 | 40 | 37 | 37 | 37 |
Social sciences | 77 | 80 | 79 | 85 | 79 |
Other | 136 | 114 | 108 | 104 | 101 |
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 | . | 39,067 | 27,261 | 5,367 | 23,133 |
Agricultural sciences | . | . | 27,261 | 5,367 | 17,013 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | . | 9,052 | . | . | . |
Engineering | . | 17,000 | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | . | . | . | . | 3,000 |
Health sciences | . | 13,015 | . | . | 3,120 |
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 | 118,200 | 20,172 | 68,454 | 67,069 | 2,395 |
Agricultural sciences | 17,800 | 0 | 0 | 8,486 | 1,281 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 1,152 | 39,476 | 6,809 | 654 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 339 | 0 |
Engineering | 8,000 | 950 | 921 | 11,914 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 6,100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 460 |
Health sciences | 0 | 10,034 | 4,229 | 2,139 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 6,100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 23,000 | 8,036 | 23,828 | 37,382 | 0 |
Psychology | 11,900 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 45,300 | 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.