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 | |
2022 | 61 | 91.2 | 680 | 49 | 94.6 | 890 | ||||||
2021 | 65 | 90.8 | 691 | 87 | 85.4 | 583 | 51 | 94.5 | 907 | |||
2020 | 75 | 89.5 | 697 | 53 | 94.4 | 915 | ||||||
2019 | 67 | 90.6 | 696 | 80 | 86.7 | 589 | 51 | 94.6 | 913 | |||
2018 | 68 | 90.5 | 698 | 53 | 94.3 | 910 | ||||||
2017 | 62 | 91.2 | 684 | 83 | 85.9 | 575 | 54 | 94.1 | 897 | |||
2016 | 54 | 92.5 | 697 | 52 | 94.4 | 895 | ||||||
2015 | 62 | 91.3 | 693 | 80 | 86.2 | 570 | 51 | 94.5 | 897 | |||
2014 | 60 | 91.5 | 688 | 50 | 94.5 | 887 | ||||||
2013 | 58 | 89.8 | 555 | 78 | 87 | 588 | 46 | 95 | 884 |
NOTES:
- 1. See TableBuilder for the prior year data.
- 2. Blank white cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or institution not eligible for survey.
- 3. Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Data
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All full-time students | 2,658 | 2,393 | 1,922 | 2,162 | 2,076 | 2,133 | 2,543 | 2,325 | 2,299 | 2,197 |
Male | 1,332 | 1,183 | 885 | 1,070 | 1,028 | 1,083 | 1,452 | 1,315 | 1,289 | 1,270 |
Female | 1,326 | 1,210 | 1,037 | 1,092 | 1,048 | 1,050 | 1,091 | 1,010 | 1,010 | 927 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 1,097 | 1,185 | 1,249 | 1,217 | 1,159 | 1,244 | 1,277 | 1,150 | 1,224 | 1,171 |
Hispanic or Latino | 49 | 64 | 45 | 60 | 61 | 80 | 54 | 54 | 44 | 38 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 1,007 | 1,089 | 1,172 | 1,137 | 1,079 | 1,132 | 1,175 | 1,055 | 1,142 | 1,102 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Asian | 72 | 99 | 96 | 102 | 81 | 107 | 100 | 64 | 70 | 58 |
Black or African American | 105 | 94 | 129 | 99 | 95 | 110 | 99 | 89 | 89 | 74 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
White | 800 | 849 | 902 | 894 | 873 | 885 | 952 | 885 | 967 | 951 |
More than one race | 26 | 42 | 43 | 39 | 28 | 26 | 20 | 12 | 15 | 12 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 41 | 32 | 32 | 20 | 19 | 32 | 48 | 41 | 38 | 31 |
Temporary visa holders | 1,561 | 1,208 | 673 | 945 | 917 | 889 | 1,266 | 1,175 | 1,075 | 1,026 |
Science and engineering | 2,273 | 2,008 | 1,517 | 1,771 | 1,683 | 1,735 | 2,195 | 2,003 | 1,963 | 1,891 |
Science | 1,676 | 1,359 | 1,026 | 1,173 | 1,116 | 1,170 | 1,167 | 882 | 925 | 922 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 11 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 413 | 416 | 398 | 385 | 369 | 356 | 342 | 327 | 331 | 309 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 21 | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 767 | 449 | 129 | 268 | 227 | 199 | 213 | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 23 | 18 | 19 | 23 | 18 | 24 | 27 | 28 | 25 | 22 |
Mathematics and statistics | 51 | 50 | 41 | 44 | 44 | 48 | 60 | 67 | 68 | 59 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | . | 4 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 37 | 35 | 33 | 33 |
Physical sciences | 150 | 148 | 145 | 176 | 172 | 217 | 204 | 169 | 180 | 174 |
Psychology | 104 | 104 | 114 | 101 | 87 | 109 | 44 | 52 | 47 | 53 |
Social sciences | 157 | 174 | 178 | 173 | 199 | 213 | 219 | 204 | 241 | 272 |
Engineering | 597 | 649 | 491 | 598 | 567 | 565 | 1,028 | 1,121 | 1,038 | 969 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 101 | 97 | 80 | 82 | 89 | 86 | 156 | 149 | 141 | 111 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 38 | 38 | 27 | 24 | 21 | 21 | 29 | 29 | 31 | 37 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 34 | 27 | 21 | 31 | 27 | 30 | 44 | 41 | 50 | 50 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 99 | 102 | 80 | 90 | 74 | 61 | 121 | 129 | 130 | 144 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 155 | 186 | 129 | 179 | 153 | 147 | 288 | 413 | 360 | 333 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 112 | 150 | 109 | 141 | 156 | 167 | 303 | 278 | 255 | 231 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 49 | 44 | 44 | 46 | 45 | 51 | 87 | 82 | 71 | 63 |
Other engineering | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | . | . | . | . |
Health | 385 | 385 | 405 | 391 | 393 | 398 | 348 | 322 | 336 | 306 |
Clinical medicine | 124 | 124 | 141 | 120 | 145 | 152 | 122 | 102 | 76 | 77 |
Other health | 261 | 261 | 264 | 271 | 248 | 246 | 226 | 220 | 260 | 229 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All part-time students | 1,838 | 1,703 | 1,383 | 1,284 | 1,340 | 1,377 | 851 | 902 | 877 | 1,022 |
Male | 741 | 658 | 755 | 680 | 744 | 732 | 345 | 367 | 371 | 444 |
Female | 1,097 | 1,045 | 628 | 604 | 596 | 645 | 506 | 535 | 506 | 578 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 1,394 | 1,391 | 922 | 863 | 885 | 922 | 811 | 847 | 807 | 949 |
Hispanic or Latino | 117 | 103 | 53 | 48 | 48 | 49 | 42 | 52 | 51 | 48 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 1,259 | 1,264 | 849 | 792 | 812 | 841 | 743 | 765 | 720 | 858 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
Asian | 99 | 101 | 85 | 71 | 59 | 58 | 47 | 37 | 21 | 29 |
Black or African American | 183 | 172 | 122 | 105 | 103 | 108 | 116 | 116 | 113 | 124 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
White | 924 | 932 | 610 | 595 | 634 | 656 | 556 | 591 | 565 | 681 |
More than one race | 48 | 57 | 27 | 19 | 15 | 19 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 17 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 18 | 24 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 32 | 26 | 30 | 36 | 43 |
Temporary visa holders | 444 | 312 | 461 | 421 | 455 | 455 | 40 | 55 | 70 | 73 |
Science and engineering | 1,292 | 1,224 | 988 | 918 | 968 | 1,005 | 572 | 634 | 679 | 787 |
Science | 930 | 919 | 607 | 576 | 584 | 592 | 530 | 585 | 636 | 726 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 35 | 41 | 30 | 33 | 35 | 33 | 48 | 41 | 37 | 44 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 12 | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 327 | 270 | 351 | 274 | 236 | 175 | 11 | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
Mathematics and statistics | 10 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 18 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 10 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 23 | 23 | 27 |
Psychology | 416 | 416 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 9 |
Social sciences | 128 | 167 | 184 | 225 | 252 | 325 | 409 | 489 | 543 | 619 |
Engineering | 362 | 305 | 381 | 342 | 384 | 413 | 42 | 49 | 43 | 61 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 40 | 38 | 46 | 39 | 44 | 57 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 9 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 9 | 10 | 20 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 44 | 27 | 40 | 30 | 44 | 59 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 121 | 78 | 103 | 83 | 106 | 126 | 14 | 25 | 26 | 37 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 118 | 119 | 150 | 138 | 134 | 125 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 10 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 19 | 21 | 15 | 28 | 33 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Other engineering | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Health | 546 | 479 | 395 | 366 | 372 | 372 | 279 | 268 | 198 | 235 |
Clinical medicine | 114 | 136 | 151 | 145 | 146 | 113 | 82 | 52 | 85 | 89 |
Other health | 432 | 343 | 244 | 221 | 226 | 259 | 197 | 216 | 113 | 146 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All surveyed fields | 157 | 155 | 122 | 153 | 159 | 230 | 235 | 189 | 207 | 247 |
Science and engineering | 129 | 126 | 84 | 116 | 116 | 145 | 211 | 186 | 176 | 213 |
Science | 96 | 100 | 58 | 74 | 111 | 140 | 171 | 118 | 116 | 131 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 59 | 75 | 45 | 52 | 59 | 66 | 69 | 51 | 52 | 56 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 3 |
Mathematics and statistics | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
Psychology | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 15 |
Physical sciences | 18 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 45 | 66 | 62 | 35 | 33 | 44 |
Social sciences | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 9 |
Engineering | 33 | 26 | 26 | 42 | 5 | 5 | 40 | 68 | 60 | 82 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 12 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 12 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 19 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 6 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 19 | 2 | 16 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 15 | 15 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 8 |
Other engineering | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Health | 28 | 29 | 38 | 37 | 43 | 85 | 24 | 3 | 31 | 34 |
Clinical medicine | 17 | 17 | 20 | 30 | 43 | 67 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 21 |
Other health | 11 | 12 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 11 | 13 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Type and primary source of support | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All types and sources of support | 2,658 | 2,393 | 1,922 | 2,162 | 2,076 | 2,133 | 2,543 | 2,325 | 2,299 | 2,197 |
Fellowships | 73 | 99 | 83 | 117 | 144 | 161 | 181 | 127 | 145 | 175 |
Federal | 55 | 74 | 62 | 71 | 75 | 99 | 75 | 45 | 46 | 53 |
Institutional | 13 | 23 | 19 | 41 | 39 | 43 | 85 | 63 | 73 | 92 |
Nonfederal | 5 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 30 | 19 | 21 | 19 | 26 | 30 |
Research assistantships | 688 | 583 | 312 | 491 | 481 | 497 | 533 | 545 | 558 | 583 |
Federal | 90 | 50 | 55 | 44 | 67 | 93 | 142 | 130 | 137 | 173 |
Institutional | 576 | 510 | 225 | 411 | 387 | 380 | 317 | 216 | 295 | 255 |
Nonfederal | 22 | 23 | 32 | 36 | 27 | 24 | 74 | 199 | 126 | 155 |
Teaching assistantships | 429 | 399 | 75 | 320 | 419 | 407 | 315 | 361 | 348 | 389 |
Federal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Institutional | 428 | 398 | 75 | 317 | 414 | 392 | 313 | 359 | 346 | 387 |
Nonfederal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Other types of support | 1,468 | 1,312 | 1,452 | 1,234 | 1,032 | 1,068 | 1,514 | 1,292 | 1,248 | 1,050 |
Federal | 12 | 30 | 5 | 35 | 17 | 30 | 18 | 14 | 24 | 20 |
Institutional | 264 | 296 | 822 | 436 | 266 | 245 | 880 | 273 | 242 | 315 |
Nonfederal | 32 | 53 | 34 | 58 | 38 | 49 | 90 | 15 | 29 | 14 |
Personal resources | 1,160 | 933 | 591 | 705 | 711 | 744 | 526 | 990 | 953 | 701 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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Science and engineering | 88 | 97 | 75 | 119 | 74 | 78 | 106 | 76 | 92 | 93 |
Science | 70 | 81 | 64 | 112 | 63 | 64 | 93 | 58 | 71 | 77 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 37 | 41 | 39 | 83 | 32 | 41 | 62 | 40 | 53 | 56 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mathematics and statistics | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 21 | 37 | 23 | 23 | 27 | 20 | 20 | 11 | 14 | 16 |
Psychology | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Engineering | 18 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 18 | 21 | 16 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 6 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Other engineering | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Health | 139 | 143 | 213 | 199 | 214 | 218 | 231 | 227 | 374 | 375 |
Clinical medicine | 131 | 132 | 205 | 193 | 204 | 208 | 221 | 216 | 367 | 368 |
Other health | 8 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 7 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All surveyed fields | 146 | 159 | 199 | 219 | 182 | 194 | 232 | 181 | 245 | 251 |
Science and engineering | 48 | 57 | 56 | 70 | 34 | 42 | 67 | 53 | 60 | 65 |
Science | 45 | 49 | 51 | 70 | 32 | 40 | 64 | 48 | 54 | 59 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 27 | 31 | 35 | 51 | 18 | 28 | 44 | 31 | 40 | 43 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 16 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 14 |
Social sciences | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 3 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Other engineering | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Health | 98 | 102 | 143 | 149 | 148 | 152 | 165 | 128 | 185 | 186 |
Clinical medicine | 94 | 98 | 140 | 146 | 143 | 147 | 155 | 117 | 183 | 184 |
Other health | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 2 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 615,070 | 551,826 | 530,138 | 529,796 | 480,095 | 455,250 | 430,579 | 436,028 | 422,873 | 438,642 | ||||||||||
Science | 544,365 | 488,510 | 468,154 | 466,508 | 419,701 | 393,618 | 367,289 | 369,304 | 360,904 | 377,350 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 3,655 | 3,614 | 2,031 | 1,516 | 2,205 | 1,690 | 121 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 993 | 913 | 1,171 | 1,143 | 1,439 | 1,377 | 1,398 | 1,320 | 1,528 | 1,195 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 993 | 913 | 1,171 | 1,143 | 1,439 | 1,377 | 1,398 | 1,320 | 1,528 | 1,195 | ||||||||||
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 | 508,639 | 456,847 | 440,721 | 437,494 | 390,071 | 365,532 | 340,897 | 347,134 | 340,523 | 356,242 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 63,666 | 60,204 | 62,270 | 58,504 | 56,993 | 55,554 | 54,698 | 51,855 | 56,953 | 59,709 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 428,068 | 380,364 | 363,772 | 362,786 | 317,083 | 294,860 | 272,184 | 278,341 | 269,265 | 279,564 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 16,905 | 16,279 | 14,679 | 16,203 | 15,995 | 15,118 | 14,015 | 16,938 | 14,305 | 16,969 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,549 | 1,320 | 1,422 | 1,949 | 2,322 | 2,278 | 2,100 | 1,788 | 1,606 | 1,707 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 10,335 | 9,189 | 8,874 | 9,641 | 9,056 | 8,699 | 8,398 | 6,775 | 7,954 | 8,712 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 7,085 | 5,987 | 5,796 | 5,968 | 4,704 | 4,672 | 5,004 | 3,699 | 4,140 | 4,329 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 3,250 | 3,202 | 3,078 | 3,673 | 4,352 | 4,027 | 3,394 | 3,076 | 3,814 | 4,383 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 8,721 | 4,278 | 1,667 | 1,746 | 2,388 | 2,791 | 2,954 | 2,505 | 2,445 | 2,090 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 9,610 | 11,451 | 11,291 | 12,083 | 11,252 | 10,384 | 10,369 | 8,604 | 6,041 | 5,576 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 175 | 125 | 272 | 195 | 333 | 541 | 292 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 1,193 | 1,170 | 336 | 273 | 318 | 352 | 97 | 933 | 1,396 | 1,447 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 2,436 | 2,320 | 2,421 | 2,277 | 1,589 | 952 | 848 | 637 | 497 | 452 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 5,806 | 7,836 | 8,262 | 9,338 | 9,012 | 8,539 | 9,132 | 7,034 | 4,148 | 3,677 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 863 | 898 | 977 | 936 | 968 | 867 | 1,052 | 1,178 | 807 | 1,828 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 46,955 | 42,434 | 43,098 | 46,889 | 44,588 | 33,618 | 34,412 | 39,108 | 38,667 | 37,388 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 7,787 | 6,742 | 6,836 | 6,019 | 5,908 | 4,961 | 7,906 | 13,319 | 10,225 | 6,216 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 2,804 | 2,573 | 1,886 | 1,201 | 1,001 | 405 | 570 | 1,597 | 1,722 | 1,994 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 3,684 | 3,221 | 3,844 | 4,367 | 5,617 | 3,895 | 3,203 | 9,130 | 6,848 | 6,054 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 7,945 | 7,395 | 7,668 | 8,620 | 7,094 | 5,940 | 4,010 | 983 | 711 | 1,300 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 11,173 | 9,718 | 9,508 | 9,499 | 8,217 | 5,046 | 5,950 | 4,707 | 5,057 | 6,656 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 11,273 | 10,250 | 10,998 | 14,569 | 15,092 | 9,991 | 9,743 | 6,857 | 7,174 | 7,656 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 608 | 640 | 751 | 598 | 63 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 2,289 | 2,535 | 2,358 | 2,614 | 1,659 | 2,772 | 2,390 | 1,764 | 6,332 | 7,449 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 23,750 | 20,882 | 18,886 | 16,399 | 15,806 | 28,014 | 28,878 | 27,616 | 23,302 | 23,904 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 3,303 | 2,523 | 2,707 | 2,869 | 1,268 | 1,679 | 2,148 | 2,329 | 1,879 | 1,375 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 162 | 42 | 80 | 131 | 184 | 126 | 229 | 81 | 112 | 113 | ||||||||||
Education | 6,869 | 6,706 | 6,264 | 4,267 | 4,562 | 4,224 | 4,287 | 4,374 | 3,040 | 3,260 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 3,239 | 2,985 | 3,037 | 2,739 | 2,712 | 3,433 | 2,882 | 3,189 | 3,160 | 2,844 | ||||||||||
Law | 55 | 43 | 0 | 36 | 23 | 1,037 | 854 | 679 | 646 | 687 | ||||||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 477 | 447 | 370 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 148 | 114 | 187 | 153 | 221 | 3,117 | 3,284 | 3,198 | 3,006 | 3,144 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 9,974 | 8,469 | 6,611 | 6,204 | 6,836 | 14,398 | 15,194 | 13,289 | 11,012 | 12,111 |
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 | 615,070 | 350,392 | 6,044 | 161,967 | 45,002 | 38,204 | 13,461 | |||||||
Science | 544,365 | 332,531 | 5,003 | 118,845 | 40,640 | 36,402 | 10,944 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 3,655 | 507 | 1,593 | 1,528 | 12 | 15 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 993 | 506 | 0 | 400 | 2 | 50 | 35 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 993 | 506 | 0 | 400 | 2 | 50 | 35 | |||||||
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 | 508,639 | 313,607 | 2,815 | 107,505 | 39,727 | 34,366 | 10,619 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 63,666 | 36,168 | 17 | 20,478 | 2,725 | 1,679 | 2,599 | |||||||
Health sciences | 428,068 | 268,101 | 2,774 | 79,703 | 36,929 | 32,639 | 7,922 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 16,905 | 9,338 | 24 | 7,324 | 73 | 48 | 98 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,549 | 623 | 0 | 840 | 0 | 83 | 3 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 10,335 | 5,296 | 0 | 4,480 | 160 | 216 | 183 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 7,085 | 3,145 | 0 | 3,394 | 160 | 215 | 171 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 3,250 | 2,151 | 0 | 1,086 | 0 | 1 | 12 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 8,721 | 7,994 | 0 | 712 | 0 | 15 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences | 9,610 | 3,998 | 595 | 3,047 | 209 | 1,657 | 104 | |||||||
Anthropology | 175 | 96 | 0 | 72 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 1,193 | 199 | 406 | 532 | 7 | 49 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 2,436 | 988 | 42 | 689 | 62 | 653 | 2 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 5,806 | 2,715 | 147 | 1,754 | 140 | 948 | 102 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 863 | 0 | 0 | 333 | 530 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 46,955 | 14,790 | 964 | 25,946 | 3,996 | 571 | 688 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 7,787 | 3,289 | 292 | 3,585 | 183 | 35 | 403 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 2,804 | 397 | 0 | 2,390 | 0 | 12 | 5 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 3,684 | 1,214 | 0 | 2,392 | 24 | 54 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 7,945 | 3,480 | 303 | 3,528 | 387 | 242 | 5 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 11,173 | 4,000 | 257 | 6,203 | 419 | 82 | 212 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 11,273 | 2,145 | 112 | 6,073 | 2,873 | 7 | 63 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 2,289 | 265 | 0 | 1,775 | 110 | 139 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 23,750 | 3,071 | 77 | 17,176 | 366 | 1,231 | 1,829 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 3,303 | 425 | 37 | 2,802 | 17 | 0 | 22 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 162 | 0 | 0 | 162 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 6,869 | 1,766 | 25 | 5,068 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 3,239 | 20 | 0 | 1,615 | 0 | 0 | 1,604 | |||||||
Law | 55 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 148 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 9,974 | 860 | 15 | 7,326 | 349 | 1,221 | 203 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Source of funds | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 350,392 | 309,097 | 285,899 | 252,892 | 250,202 | 242,237 | 231,817 | 251,717 | 245,086 | 258,460 | ||||||||||
DOD | 13,541 | 13,647 | 13,220 | 9,751 | 10,159 | 7,567 | 6,834 | 7,389 | 8,180 | 11,423 | ||||||||||
DOE | 3,287 | 3,057 | 2,295 | 2,518 | 2,638 | 2,490 | 1,546 | 1,315 | 1,874 | 2,952 | ||||||||||
HHS | 310,961 | 273,764 | 252,177 | 221,849 | 218,186 | 213,851 | 207,016 | 229,523 | 220,249 | 226,338 | ||||||||||
NASA | 707 | 717 | 582 | 771 | 479 | 525 | 702 | 346 | 480 | 628 | ||||||||||
NSF | 13,046 | 8,595 | 7,959 | 9,306 | 11,667 | 11,734 | 10,920 | 8,590 | 9,238 | 10,034 | ||||||||||
USDA | 56 | 81 | 63 | 126 | 231 | 321 | 51 | 93 | 125 | 212 | ||||||||||
Other | 8,794 | 9,236 | 9,603 | 8,571 | 6,842 | 5,749 | 4,748 | 4,461 | 4,940 | 6,873 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Year | All personnel | Principal investigators | Other personnel | Postdocs | |||
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2022 | . | . | . | . | |||
2021 | . | . | . | . | |||
2020 | . | . | . | . | |||
2019 | 3,580 | 576 | 3,004 | . | |||
2018 | 3,606 | 595 | 3,011 | . | |||
2017 | 3,612 | 557 | 3,055 | . | |||
2016 | 3,563 | 569 | 2,994 | . |
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.