U. Cincinnati

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 | 65 | 10.2 | 691 | 87 | 15.6 | 583 | 51 | 6.4 | 909 | |||
2020 | 75 | 11.5 | 697 | 53 | 6.6 | 915 | ||||||
2019 | 67 | 10.4 | 696 | 80 | 14.3 | 589 | 51 | 6.4 | 913 | |||
2018 | 68 | 10.5 | 698 | 53 | 6.7 | 910 | ||||||
2017 | 62 | 9.8 | 684 | 83 | 15.1 | 575 | 54 | 6.9 | 897 | |||
2016 | 54 | 8.5 | 697 | 52 | 6.6 | 895 | ||||||
2015 | 62 | 9.7 | 693 | 80 | 14.8 | 570 | 51 | 6.5 | 897 | |||
2014 | 60 | 9.5 | 688 | 50 | 6.5 | 887 | ||||||
2013 | 58 | 11.2 | 555 | 78 | 14 | 588 | 46 | 6 | 884 | |||
2012 | 59 | 11.4 | 555 | 46 | 6 | 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

All races | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All full-time students | 2,393 | 1,922 | 2,162 | 2,076 | 2,133 | 2,543 | 2,325 | 2,299 | 2,197 | 2,170 |
Male | 1,183 | 885 | 1,070 | 1,028 | 1,083 | 1,452 | 1,315 | 1,289 | 1,270 | 1,270 |
Female | 1,210 | 1,037 | 1,092 | 1,048 | 1,050 | 1,091 | 1,010 | 1,010 | 927 | 900 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 1,185 | 1,249 | 1,217 | 1,159 | 1,244 | 1,277 | 1,150 | 1,224 | 1,171 | 1,195 |
Hispanic or Latino | 64 | 45 | 60 | 61 | 80 | 54 | 54 | 44 | 38 | 31 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 1,089 | 1,172 | 1,137 | 1,079 | 1,132 | 1,175 | 1,055 | 1,142 | 1,102 | 1,121 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Asian | 99 | 96 | 102 | 81 | 107 | 100 | 64 | 70 | 58 | 64 |
Black or African American | 94 | 129 | 99 | 95 | 110 | 99 | 89 | 89 | 74 | 88 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
White | 849 | 902 | 894 | 873 | 885 | 952 | 885 | 967 | 951 | 954 |
More than one race | 42 | 43 | 39 | 28 | 26 | 20 | 12 | 15 | 12 | 11 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 32 | 32 | 20 | 19 | 32 | 48 | 41 | 38 | 31 | 43 |
Temporary visa holders | 1,208 | 673 | 945 | 917 | 889 | 1,266 | 1,175 | 1,075 | 1,026 | 975 |
Science and engineering | 2,008 | 1,517 | 1,771 | 1,683 | 1,735 | 2,195 | 2,003 | 1,963 | 1,891 | 1,782 |
Science | 1,359 | 1,026 | 1,173 | 1,116 | 1,170 | 1,167 | 882 | 925 | 922 | 858 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 416 | 398 | 385 | 369 | 356 | 342 | 327 | 331 | 309 | 199 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 21 | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 449 | 129 | 268 | 227 | 199 | 213 | . | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 18 | 19 | 23 | 18 | 24 | 27 | 28 | 25 | 22 | 25 |
Mathematics and statistics | 50 | 41 | 44 | 44 | 48 | 60 | 67 | 68 | 59 | 88 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 2 | 3 | . | 4 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 37 | 35 | 33 | 33 | 33 |
Physical sciences | 148 | 145 | 176 | 172 | 217 | 204 | 169 | 180 | 174 | 182 |
Psychology | 104 | 114 | 101 | 87 | 109 | 44 | 52 | 47 | 53 | 49 |
Social sciences | 174 | 178 | 173 | 199 | 213 | 219 | 204 | 241 | 272 | 282 |
Engineering | 649 | 491 | 598 | 567 | 565 | 1,028 | 1,121 | 1,038 | 969 | 924 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 97 | 80 | 82 | 89 | 86 | 156 | 149 | 141 | 111 | 104 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 38 | 27 | 24 | 21 | 21 | 29 | 29 | 31 | 37 | 43 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 27 | 21 | 31 | 27 | 30 | 44 | 41 | 50 | 50 | 46 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 102 | 80 | 90 | 74 | 61 | 121 | 129 | 130 | 144 | 138 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 186 | 129 | 179 | 153 | 147 | 288 | 413 | 360 | 333 | 316 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 2 | 0 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 150 | 109 | 141 | 156 | 167 | 303 | 278 | 255 | 231 | 218 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 44 | 44 | 46 | 45 | 51 | 87 | 82 | 71 | 63 | 59 |
Other engineering | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 385 | 405 | 391 | 393 | 398 | 348 | 322 | 336 | 306 | 388 |
Clinical medicine | 124 | 141 | 120 | 145 | 152 | 122 | 102 | 76 | 77 | 177 |
Other health | 261 | 264 | 271 | 248 | 246 | 226 | 220 | 260 | 229 | 211 |
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 | 1,703 | 1,383 | 1,284 | 1,340 | 1,377 | 851 | 902 | 877 | 1,022 | 1,054 |
Male | 658 | 755 | 680 | 744 | 732 | 345 | 367 | 371 | 444 | 453 |
Female | 1,045 | 628 | 604 | 596 | 645 | 506 | 535 | 506 | 578 | 601 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 1,391 | 922 | 863 | 885 | 922 | 811 | 847 | 807 | 949 | 978 |
Hispanic or Latino | 103 | 53 | 48 | 48 | 49 | 42 | 52 | 51 | 48 | 21 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 1,264 | 849 | 792 | 812 | 841 | 743 | 765 | 720 | 858 | 893 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
Asian | 101 | 85 | 71 | 59 | 58 | 47 | 37 | 21 | 29 | 27 |
Black or African American | 172 | 122 | 105 | 103 | 108 | 116 | 116 | 113 | 124 | 138 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
White | 932 | 610 | 595 | 634 | 656 | 556 | 591 | 565 | 681 | 718 |
More than one race | 57 | 27 | 19 | 15 | 19 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 2 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 24 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 32 | 26 | 30 | 36 | 43 | 64 |
Temporary visa holders | 312 | 461 | 421 | 455 | 455 | 40 | 55 | 70 | 73 | 76 |
Science and engineering | 1,224 | 988 | 918 | 968 | 1,005 | 572 | 634 | 679 | 787 | 851 |
Science | 919 | 607 | 576 | 584 | 592 | 530 | 585 | 636 | 726 | 798 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 41 | 30 | 33 | 35 | 33 | 48 | 41 | 37 | 44 | 51 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 12 | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 270 | 351 | 274 | 236 | 175 | 11 | . | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 1 |
Mathematics and statistics | 8 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 18 | 5 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 13 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 23 | 23 | 27 | 38 |
Psychology | 416 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 25 |
Social sciences | 167 | 184 | 225 | 252 | 325 | 409 | 489 | 543 | 619 | 678 |
Engineering | 305 | 381 | 342 | 384 | 413 | 42 | 49 | 43 | 61 | 53 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 38 | 46 | 39 | 44 | 57 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 9 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 10 | 20 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 27 | 40 | 30 | 44 | 59 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 78 | 103 | 83 | 106 | 126 | 14 | 25 | 26 | 37 | 23 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 3 | 2 | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 119 | 150 | 138 | 134 | 125 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 14 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 21 | 15 | 28 | 33 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Other engineering | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 479 | 395 | 366 | 372 | 372 | 279 | 268 | 198 | 235 | 203 |
Clinical medicine | 136 | 151 | 145 | 146 | 113 | 82 | 52 | 85 | 89 | 94 |
Other health | 343 | 244 | 221 | 226 | 259 | 197 | 216 | 113 | 146 | 109 |
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 | 155 | 122 | 153 | 159 | 230 | 235 | 189 | 207 | 247 | 274 |
Science and engineering | 126 | 84 | 116 | 116 | 145 | 211 | 186 | 176 | 213 | 212 |
Science | 100 | 58 | 74 | 111 | 140 | 171 | 118 | 116 | 131 | 103 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 75 | 45 | 52 | 59 | 66 | 69 | 51 | 52 | 56 | 33 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Mathematics and statistics | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Physical sciences | 13 | 5 | 13 | 45 | 66 | 62 | 35 | 33 | 44 | 37 |
Psychology | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 13 |
Social sciences | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 12 |
Engineering | 26 | 26 | 42 | 5 | 5 | 40 | 68 | 60 | 82 | 109 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 6 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 13 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 12 | 9 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 19 | 33 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 8 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 2 | 16 | 10 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 22 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 11 |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 29 | 38 | 37 | 43 | 85 | 24 | 3 | 31 | 34 | 62 |
Clinical medicine | 17 | 20 | 30 | 43 | 67 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 21 | 42 |
Other health | 12 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 20 |
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 | 2,393 | 1,922 | 2,162 | 2,076 | 2,133 | 2,543 | 2,325 | 2,299 | 2,197 | 2,170 |
Fellowships | 99 | 83 | 117 | 144 | 161 | 181 | 127 | 145 | 175 | 189 |
Federal | 74 | 62 | 71 | 75 | 99 | 75 | 45 | 46 | 53 | 65 |
Institutional | 23 | 19 | 41 | 39 | 43 | 85 | 63 | 73 | 92 | 90 |
Nonfederal | 2 | 2 | 5 | 30 | 19 | 21 | 19 | 26 | 30 | 34 |
Research assistantships | 583 | 312 | 491 | 481 | 497 | 533 | 545 | 558 | 583 | 545 |
Federal | 50 | 55 | 44 | 67 | 93 | 142 | 130 | 137 | 173 | 190 |
Institutional | 510 | 225 | 411 | 387 | 380 | 317 | 216 | 295 | 255 | 240 |
Nonfederal | 23 | 32 | 36 | 27 | 24 | 74 | 199 | 126 | 155 | 115 |
Teaching assistantships | 399 | 75 | 320 | 419 | 407 | 315 | 361 | 348 | 389 | 364 |
Federal | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Institutional | 398 | 75 | 317 | 414 | 392 | 313 | 359 | 346 | 387 | 363 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Other types of support | 1,312 | 1,452 | 1,234 | 1,032 | 1,068 | 1,514 | 1,292 | 1,248 | 1,050 | 1,072 |
Federal | 30 | 5 | 35 | 17 | 30 | 18 | 14 | 24 | 20 | 19 |
Institutional | 296 | 822 | 436 | 266 | 245 | 880 | 273 | 242 | 315 | 353 |
Nonfederal | 53 | 34 | 58 | 38 | 49 | 90 | 15 | 29 | 14 | 18 |
Personal resources | 933 | 591 | 705 | 711 | 744 | 526 | 990 | 953 | 701 | 682 |
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 | 97 | 75 | 119 | 74 | 78 | 106 | 76 | 92 | 93 | 93 |
Science | 81 | 64 | 112 | 63 | 64 | 93 | 58 | 71 | 77 | 73 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 41 | 39 | 83 | 32 | 41 | 62 | 40 | 53 | 56 | 50 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 37 | 23 | 23 | 27 | 20 | 20 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 20 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Engineering | 16 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 18 | 21 | 16 | 20 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 4 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 7 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Other engineering | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 143 | 213 | 199 | 214 | 218 | 231 | 227 | 374 | 375 | 372 |
Clinical medicine | 132 | 205 | 193 | 204 | 208 | 221 | 216 | 367 | 368 | 367 |
Other health | 11 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 5 |
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 | 159 | 199 | 219 | 182 | 194 | 232 | 181 | 245 | 251 | 282 |
Science and engineering | 57 | 56 | 70 | 34 | 42 | 67 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 75 |
Science | 49 | 51 | 70 | 32 | 40 | 64 | 48 | 54 | 59 | 64 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 31 | 35 | 51 | 18 | 28 | 44 | 31 | 40 | 43 | 44 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 17 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 18 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 11 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Other engineering | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 102 | 143 | 149 | 148 | 152 | 165 | 128 | 185 | 186 | 207 |
Clinical medicine | 98 | 140 | 146 | 143 | 147 | 155 | 117 | 183 | 184 | 204 |
Other health | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
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 | 551,826 | 530,138 | 529,796 | 480,095 | 455,250 | 430,579 | 436,028 | 422,873 | 438,642 | 433,668 | ||||||||||
Science | 488,510 | 468,154 | 466,508 | 419,701 | 393,618 | 367,289 | 369,304 | 360,904 | 377,350 | 368,626 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 3,614 | 2,031 | 1,516 | 2,205 | 1,690 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 913 | 1,171 | 1,143 | 1,439 | 1,377 | 1,398 | 1,320 | 1,528 | 1,195 | 951 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 913 | 1,171 | 1,143 | 1,439 | 1,377 | 1,398 | 1,320 | 1,528 | 1,195 | 951 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 456,847 | 440,721 | 437,494 | 390,071 | 365,532 | 340,897 | 347,134 | 340,523 | 356,242 | 349,904 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 60,204 | 62,270 | 58,504 | 56,993 | 55,554 | 54,698 | 51,855 | 56,953 | 59,709 | 61,257 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 380,364 | 363,772 | 362,786 | 317,083 | 294,860 | 272,184 | 278,341 | 269,265 | 279,564 | 271,131 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 16,279 | 14,679 | 16,203 | 15,995 | 15,118 | 14,015 | 16,938 | 14,305 | 16,969 | 17,516 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,320 | 1,422 | 1,949 | 2,322 | 2,278 | 2,100 | 1,788 | 1,606 | 1,707 | 1,342 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 9,189 | 8,874 | 9,641 | 9,056 | 8,699 | 8,398 | 6,775 | 7,954 | 8,712 | 7,197 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 5,987 | 5,796 | 5,968 | 4,704 | 4,672 | 5,004 | 3,699 | 4,140 | 4,329 | 4,196 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 3,202 | 3,078 | 3,673 | 4,352 | 4,027 | 3,394 | 3,076 | 3,814 | 4,383 | 3,001 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 4,278 | 1,667 | 1,746 | 2,388 | 2,791 | 2,954 | 2,505 | 2,445 | 2,090 | 1,829 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 11,451 | 11,291 | 12,083 | 11,252 | 10,384 | 10,369 | 8,604 | 6,041 | 5,576 | 6,540 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 125 | 272 | 195 | 333 | 541 | 292 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 1,170 | 336 | 273 | 318 | 352 | 97 | 933 | 1,396 | 1,447 | 1,112 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 2,320 | 2,421 | 2,277 | 1,589 | 952 | 848 | 637 | 497 | 452 | 549 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 7,836 | 8,262 | 9,338 | 9,012 | 8,539 | 9,132 | 7,034 | 4,148 | 3,677 | 4,879 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 898 | 977 | 936 | 968 | 867 | 1,052 | 1,178 | 807 | 1,828 | 863 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 42,434 | 43,098 | 46,889 | 44,588 | 33,618 | 34,412 | 39,108 | 38,667 | 37,388 | 39,668 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 6,742 | 6,836 | 6,019 | 5,908 | 4,961 | 7,906 | 13,319 | 10,225 | 6,216 | 5,727 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 2,573 | 1,886 | 1,201 | 1,001 | 405 | 570 | 1,597 | 1,722 | 1,994 | 3,696 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 3,221 | 3,844 | 4,367 | 5,617 | 3,895 | 3,203 | 9,130 | 6,848 | 6,054 | 7,422 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 7,395 | 7,668 | 8,620 | 7,094 | 5,940 | 4,010 | 983 | 711 | 1,300 | 257 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 9,718 | 9,508 | 9,499 | 8,217 | 5,046 | 5,950 | 4,707 | 5,057 | 6,656 | 7,238 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 10,250 | 10,998 | 14,569 | 15,092 | 9,991 | 9,743 | 6,857 | 7,174 | 7,656 | 6,687 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 608 | 640 | 751 | 598 | 63 | 38 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 2,535 | 2,358 | 2,614 | 1,659 | 2,772 | 2,390 | 1,764 | 6,332 | 7,449 | 8,603 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 20,882 | 18,886 | 16,399 | 15,806 | 28,014 | 28,878 | 27,616 | 23,302 | 23,904 | 25,374 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 2,523 | 2,707 | 2,869 | 1,268 | 1,679 | 2,148 | 2,329 | 1,879 | 1,375 | 1,708 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 42 | 80 | 131 | 184 | 126 | 229 | 81 | 112 | 113 | 112 | ||||||||||
Education | 6,706 | 6,264 | 4,267 | 4,562 | 4,224 | 4,287 | 4,374 | 3,040 | 3,260 | 3,616 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 2,985 | 3,037 | 2,739 | 2,712 | 3,433 | 2,882 | 3,189 | 3,160 | 2,844 | 3,061 | ||||||||||
Law | 43 | 0 | 36 | 23 | 1,037 | 854 | 679 | 646 | 687 | 970 | ||||||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 477 | 447 | 370 | 423 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 114 | 187 | 153 | 221 | 3,117 | 3,284 | 3,198 | 3,006 | 3,144 | 4,546 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 8,469 | 6,611 | 6,204 | 6,836 | 14,398 | 15,194 | 13,289 | 11,012 | 12,111 | 10,938 |
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 | 551,826 | 309,097 | 7,234 | 145,772 | 39,228 | 38,816 | 11,679 | |||||||
Science | 488,510 | 293,441 | 5,604 | 107,629 | 35,759 | 36,994 | 9,083 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 3,614 | 205 | 1,712 | 1,605 | 79 | 13 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 913 | 303 | 0 | 487 | 0 | 78 | 45 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 913 | 303 | 0 | 487 | 0 | 78 | 45 | |||||||
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 | 456,847 | 282,277 | 3,293 | 94,953 | 34,973 | 32,619 | 8,732 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 60,204 | 34,328 | 5 | 19,468 | 2,519 | 1,588 | 2,296 | |||||||
Health sciences | 380,364 | 239,842 | 2,912 | 67,960 | 32,365 | 30,937 | 6,348 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 16,279 | 8,107 | 376 | 7,525 | 89 | 94 | 88 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,320 | 620 | 0 | 683 | 0 | 17 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 9,189 | 4,501 | 6 | 4,042 | 124 | 314 | 202 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 5,987 | 2,173 | 6 | 3,182 | 124 | 312 | 190 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 3,202 | 2,328 | 0 | 860 | 0 | 2 | 12 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 4,278 | 2,875 | 0 | 1,365 | 0 | 38 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences | 11,451 | 2,660 | 593 | 4,153 | 26 | 3,915 | 104 | |||||||
Anthropology | 125 | 65 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 1,170 | 197 | 590 | 304 | 0 | 79 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 2,320 | 541 | 3 | 964 | 26 | 785 | 1 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 7,836 | 1,857 | 0 | 2,831 | 0 | 3,045 | 103 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 898 | 0 | 0 | 341 | 557 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 42,434 | 12,970 | 1,465 | 23,803 | 3,138 | 171 | 887 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 6,742 | 2,189 | 426 | 3,463 | 16 | 11 | 637 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 2,573 | 587 | 0 | 1,979 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 3,221 | 712 | 77 | 2,422 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 7,395 | 3,341 | 377 | 3,343 | 191 | 143 | 0 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 9,718 | 3,756 | 206 | 5,227 | 291 | 0 | 238 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 10,250 | 2,145 | 54 | 5,628 | 2,411 | 0 | 12 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 2,535 | 240 | 325 | 1,741 | 229 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 20,882 | 2,686 | 165 | 14,340 | 331 | 1,651 | 1,709 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 2,523 | 80 | 6 | 2,392 | 25 | 20 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 42 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 6,706 | 1,521 | 55 | 5,104 | 0 | 26 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 2,985 | 14 | 0 | 1,365 | 0 | 5 | 1,601 | |||||||
Law | 43 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 114 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 8,469 | 1,071 | 104 | 5,280 | 306 | 1,600 | 108 |
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 | 309,097 | 285,899 | 252,892 | 250,202 | 242,237 | 231,817 | 251,717 | 245,086 | 258,460 | 267,691 | ||||||||||
DOD | 13,647 | 13,220 | 9,751 | 10,159 | 7,567 | 6,834 | 7,389 | 8,180 | 11,423 | 11,986 | ||||||||||
DOE | 3,057 | 2,295 | 2,518 | 2,638 | 2,490 | 1,546 | 1,315 | 1,874 | 2,952 | 3,019 | ||||||||||
HHS | 273,764 | 252,177 | 221,849 | 218,186 | 213,851 | 207,016 | 229,523 | 220,249 | 226,338 | 236,697 | ||||||||||
NASA | 717 | 582 | 771 | 479 | 525 | 702 | 346 | 480 | 628 | 780 | ||||||||||
NSF | 8,595 | 7,959 | 9,306 | 11,667 | 11,734 | 10,920 | 8,590 | 9,238 | 10,034 | 9,052 | ||||||||||
USDA | 81 | 63 | 126 | 231 | 321 | 51 | 93 | 125 | 212 | 46 | ||||||||||
Other | 9,236 | 9,603 | 8,571 | 6,842 | 5,749 | 4,748 | 4,461 | 4,940 | 6,873 | 6,111 |
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 | 3,580 | 576 | 3,004 | . | |||
2018 | 3,606 | 595 | 3,011 | . | |||
2017 | 3,612 | 557 | 3,055 | . | |||
2016 | 3,563 | 569 | 2,994 | . | |||
2015 | 3,336 | 570 | 2,766 | 187 |
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 | 795 | 858 | 808 | 820 | 833 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 234 | 289 | 286 | 289 | 303 |
Computer and information sciences | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Engineering | 185 | 195 | 166 | 159 | 148 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 19 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 20 |
Health sciences | 237 | 220 | 208 | 221 | 226 |
Mathematics and statistics | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . |
Physical sciences | 83 | 89 | 85 | 84 | 89 |
Psychology | 16 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 22 |
Social sciences | 16 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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 | 50,853 | 11,844 | . | 28,795 | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | . | 5,533 | . | . | . |
Engineering | 11,853 | . | . | 23,362 | . |
Health sciences | . | 6,311 | . | 5,433 | . |
Psychology | 39,000 | . | . | . | . |
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 | 1,191 | 13,735 | 29,669 | 5,111 | 26,132 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 896 | 4,144 | 11,079 | 3,841 | 15,202 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 295 | 7,260 | 7,689 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 816 | 924 | 8,229 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 605 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 1,726 | 9,784 | 346 | 2,364 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 300 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 338 |
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.