U. Connecticut
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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 | 64 | 90.8 | 680 | 79 | 91.3 | 890 | ||||||
2021 | 53 | 92.5 | 691 | 67 | 88.8 | 583 | 88 | 90.5 | 907 | |||
2020 | 48 | 93.3 | 697 | 89 | 90.5 | 915 | ||||||
2019 | 47 | 93.4 | 696 | 65 | 89.2 | 589 | 85 | 90.9 | 913 | |||
2018 | 49 | 93.2 | 698 | 89 | 90.4 | 910 | ||||||
2017 | 46 | 93.5 | 684 | 74 | 87.4 | 575 | 87 | 90.5 | 897 | |||
2016 | 47 | 93.5 | 697 | 84 | 90.8 | 895 | ||||||
2015 | 47 | 93.4 | 693 | 67 | 88.5 | 570 | 82 | 91 | 897 | |||
2014 | 46 | 93.5 | 688 | 82 | 91 | 887 | ||||||
2013 | 53 | 90.7 | 555 | 70 | 88.4 | 588 | 86 | 90.5 | 884 |
NOTES:
- 1. See TableBuilder for the prior year data.
- 2. Blank white cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or institution not eligible for survey.
- 3. Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Data
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All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All full-time students | 2,607 | 2,651 | 2,639 | 2,833 | 2,762 | 2,796 | 2,928 | 2,791 | 2,728 | 2,471 |
Male | 1,339 | 1,343 | 1,342 | 1,431 | 1,411 | 1,396 | 1,472 | 1,447 | 1,445 | 1,285 |
Female | 1,268 | 1,308 | 1,297 | 1,402 | 1,351 | 1,400 | 1,456 | 1,344 | 1,283 | 1,186 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 1,480 | 1,556 | 1,523 | 1,457 | 1,422 | 1,448 | 1,514 | 1,485 | 1,458 | 1,415 |
Hispanic or Latino | 143 | 151 | 148 | 129 | 85 | 90 | 84 | 51 | 69 | 74 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 1,306 | 1,365 | 1,328 | 1,247 | 1,218 | 1,232 | 1,298 | 1,293 | 1,242 | 1,192 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Asian | 143 | 144 | 128 | 111 | 117 | 116 | 119 | 122 | 109 | 112 |
Black or African American | 70 | 82 | 87 | 84 | 77 | 78 | 82 | 75 | 62 | 52 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
White | 1,031 | 1,079 | 1,064 | 1,004 | 974 | 996 | 1,052 | 1,024 | 1,036 | 1,002 |
More than one race | 60 | 59 | 48 | 45 | 44 | 37 | 42 | 69 | 32 | 20 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 31 | 40 | 47 | 81 | 119 | 126 | 132 | 141 | 147 | 149 |
Temporary visa holders | 1,127 | 1,095 | 1,116 | 1,376 | 1,340 | 1,348 | 1,414 | 1,306 | 1,270 | 1,056 |
Science and engineering | 2,324 | 2,376 | 2,380 | 2,571 | 2,488 | 2,518 | 2,639 | 2,546 | 2,489 | 2,224 |
Science | 1,710 | 1,768 | 1,790 | 1,995 | 1,936 | 1,967 | 2,073 | 1,931 | 1,874 | 1,625 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 65 | 56 | 48 | 45 | 38 | 38 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 54 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 438 | 466 | 409 | 433 | 421 | 422 | 424 | 397 | 411 | 424 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 47 | 46 | 48 | 46 |
Computer and information sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 42 | 47 | 44 | 42 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 66 | 59 | 57 | 52 | 49 | 46 | 41 | 41 | 41 | 48 |
Mathematics and statistics | 294 | 305 | 443 | 606 | 544 | 543 | 573 | 483 | 412 | 200 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 54 | 55 | 47 | 31 | 26 | 25 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 232 | 243 | 221 | 230 | 241 | 235 | 229 | 239 | 253 | 229 |
Psychology | 297 | 309 | 289 | 256 | 263 | 310 | 299 | 285 | 237 | 232 |
Social sciences | 264 | 275 | 276 | 342 | 354 | 348 | 349 | 322 | 357 | 350 |
Engineering | 614 | 608 | 590 | 576 | 552 | 551 | 566 | 615 | 615 | 599 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 115 | 101 | 105 | 100 | 88 | 91 | 98 | 96 | 90 | 88 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 55 | 54 | 54 | 53 | 51 | 40 | 45 | 47 | 52 | 51 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 74 | 84 | 78 | 76 | 75 | 86 | 77 | 75 | 75 | 74 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 195 | 186 | 167 | 181 | 196 | 188 | 208 | 237 | 230 | 209 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 11 | 13 | 15 | 14 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 69 | 64 | 55 | 65 | 66 | 65 | 57 | 84 | 90 | 106 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 81 | 93 | 86 | 80 | 73 | 78 | 81 | 76 | 75 | 71 |
Other engineering | 14 | 13 | 30 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Health | 283 | 275 | 259 | 262 | 274 | 278 | 289 | 245 | 239 | 247 |
Clinical medicine | 70 | 72 | 65 | 52 | 60 | 51 | 61 | 33 | 54 | 55 |
Other health | 213 | 203 | 194 | 210 | 214 | 227 | 228 | 212 | 185 | 192 |
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 | 660 | 675 | 636 | 573 | 580 | 577 | 643 | 717 | 723 | 707 |
Male | 348 | 361 | 369 | 325 | 321 | 317 | 348 | 393 | 410 | 386 |
Female | 312 | 314 | 267 | 248 | 259 | 260 | 295 | 324 | 313 | 321 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 595 | 595 | 539 | 497 | 514 | 495 | 560 | 614 | 613 | 604 |
Hispanic or Latino | 48 | 60 | 36 | 20 | 42 | 36 | 22 | 21 | 27 | 33 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 523 | 515 | 473 | 437 | 427 | 419 | 487 | 549 | 536 | 520 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Asian | 67 | 48 | 44 | 41 | 40 | 29 | 37 | 53 | 58 | 48 |
Black or African American | 45 | 38 | 24 | 30 | 27 | 26 | 37 | 36 | 34 | 29 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
White | 398 | 415 | 391 | 356 | 353 | 352 | 399 | 435 | 430 | 438 |
More than one race | 12 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 11 | 4 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 24 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 45 | 40 | 51 | 44 | 50 | 51 |
Temporary visa holders | 65 | 80 | 97 | 76 | 66 | 82 | 83 | 103 | 110 | 103 |
Science and engineering | 580 | 606 | 568 | 487 | 495 | 499 | 556 | 608 | 559 | 556 |
Science | 301 | 298 | 274 | 224 | 226 | 247 | 307 | 358 | 297 | 309 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 6 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 16 | 20 | 26 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 51 | 43 | 46 | 21 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 33 | 20 | 44 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 11 | 13 | 8 | 6 |
Computer and information sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
Mathematics and statistics | 22 | 26 | 32 | 21 | 22 | 28 | 18 | 35 | 40 | 35 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 77 | 69 | 34 | 20 | 6 | 8 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 15 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 12 |
Psychology | 62 | 69 | 62 | 72 | 74 | 72 | 86 | 81 | 46 | 42 |
Social sciences | 62 | 71 | 70 | 70 | 78 | 90 | 123 | 149 | 132 | 126 |
Engineering | 279 | 308 | 294 | 263 | 269 | 252 | 249 | 250 | 262 | 247 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 31 | 32 | 32 | 13 | 20 | 27 | 14 | 28 | 22 | 24 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 6 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 6 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 11 | 22 | 17 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 26 | 27 | 44 | 42 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 33 | 37 | 41 | 49 | 42 | 53 | 45 | 47 | 47 | 53 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 9 | 10 | 22 | 29 | 37 | 35 | 38 | 38 | 36 | 32 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 13 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 18 |
Other engineering | 172 | 187 | 166 | 134 | 134 | 100 | 104 | 94 | 91 | 72 |
Health | 80 | 69 | 68 | 86 | 85 | 78 | 87 | 109 | 164 | 151 |
Clinical medicine | 56 | 46 | 46 | 59 | 56 | 56 | 61 | 72 | 86 | 80 |
Other health | 24 | 23 | 22 | 27 | 29 | 22 | 26 | 37 | 78 | 71 |
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 | 808 | 773 | 581 | 620 | 534 | 496 | 515 | 436 | 530 | 535 |
Science and engineering | 764 | 740 | 545 | 591 | 504 | 471 | 482 | 410 | 510 | 511 |
Science | 484 | 438 | 311 | 328 | 311 | 294 | 303 | 251 | 289 | 289 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 42 | 31 | 27 | 23 | 21 | 21 | 35 | 31 | 38 | 31 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 147 | 136 | 105 | 90 | 95 | 84 | 85 | 74 | 104 | 109 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 35 | 31 | 29 | 21 | 27 | 21 | 16 | 18 | 12 | 17 |
Mathematics and statistics | 17 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 27 | 32 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 12 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 85 | 74 | 54 | 71 | 61 | 67 | 74 | 61 | 62 | 55 |
Psychology | 107 | 90 | 46 | 60 | 52 | 49 | 58 | 39 | 49 | 60 |
Social sciences | 24 | 31 | 24 | 32 | 27 | 30 | 26 | 22 | 18 | 13 |
Engineering | 280 | 302 | 234 | 263 | 193 | 177 | 179 | 159 | 221 | 222 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 42 | 42 | 29 | 37 | 32 | 24 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 14 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 25 | 26 | 20 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 23 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 31 | 47 | 33 | 42 | 31 | 37 | 39 | 21 | 27 | 23 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 89 | 96 | 68 | 88 | 70 | 65 | 71 | 66 | 95 | 72 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 9 | 12 | 5 | 13 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 39 | 33 | 37 | 31 | 26 | 21 | 18 | 22 | 41 | 55 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 45 | 46 | 41 | 33 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 35 |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 44 | 33 | 36 | 29 | 30 | 25 | 33 | 26 | 20 | 24 |
Clinical medicine | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Other health | 41 | 27 | 30 | 25 | 22 | 23 | 30 | 26 | 20 | 23 |
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 | 2,607 | 2,651 | 2,639 | 2,833 | 2,762 | 2,796 | 2,928 | 2,791 | 2,728 | 2,471 |
Fellowships | 226 | 204 | 44 | 222 | 177 | 179 | 232 | 156 | 196 | 113 |
Federal | 119 | 113 | 11 | 124 | 85 | 74 | 106 | 48 | 111 | 72 |
Institutional | 80 | 59 | 25 | 62 | 62 | 66 | 65 | 36 | 47 | 41 |
Nonfederal | 27 | 32 | 8 | 36 | 30 | 39 | 61 | 72 | 38 | 0 |
Research assistantships | 1,089 | 1,083 | 974 | 885 | 895 | 917 | 942 | 926 | 1,029 | 1,032 |
Federal | 686 | 657 | 563 | 488 | 444 | 416 | 406 | 384 | 418 | 456 |
Institutional | 320 | 334 | 295 | 293 | 346 | 412 | 451 | 430 | 481 | 411 |
Nonfederal | 83 | 92 | 116 | 104 | 105 | 89 | 85 | 112 | 130 | 165 |
Teaching assistantships | 760 | 766 | 781 | 823 | 826 | 826 | 840 | 818 | 782 | 827 |
Federal | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
Institutional | 757 | 762 | 775 | 814 | 818 | 815 | 834 | 811 | 778 | 816 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
Other types of support | 532 | 598 | 840 | 903 | 864 | 874 | 914 | 891 | 721 | 499 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 14 | 16 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Personal resources | 518 | 582 | 835 | 893 | 854 | 869 | 893 | 890 | 721 | 498 |
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 | 321 | 316 | 301 | 277 | 176 | 157 | 161 | 149 | 162 | 161 |
Science | 270 | 262 | 242 | 226 | 151 | 138 | 132 | 129 | 136 | 132 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 12 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 98 | 118 | 105 | 108 | 91 | 88 | 70 | 73 | 76 | 76 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 7 | 17 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 10 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 47 | 30 | 28 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
Natural resources and conservation | 8 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 6 | 9 | 14 | 15 |
Physical sciences | 66 | 60 | 56 | 43 | 27 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 10 |
Psychology | 26 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Social sciences | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
Engineering | 51 | 54 | 59 | 51 | 25 | 19 | 29 | 20 | 26 | 29 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 12 | 16 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 13 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 8 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 8 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 16 |
Other engineering | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 47 | 63 | 61 | 75 | 51 | 63 | 72 | 64 | 63 | 76 |
Clinical medicine | 16 | 23 | 28 | 35 | 27 | 31 | 41 | 40 | 34 | 45 |
Other health | 31 | 40 | 33 | 40 | 24 | 32 | 31 | 24 | 29 | 31 |
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 | 144 | 167 | 150 | 152 | 136 | 134 | 139 | 126 | 123 | 139 |
Science and engineering | 130 | 139 | 124 | 122 | 112 | 97 | 97 | 85 | 92 | 103 |
Science | 112 | 121 | 103 | 106 | 98 | 84 | 82 | 74 | 80 | 85 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 58 | 66 | 55 | 52 | 59 | 57 | 49 | 44 | 51 | 52 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 3 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 11 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Natural resources and conservation | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 5 | 7 | 12 | 13 |
Psychology | 10 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Physical sciences | 23 | 24 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 7 |
Social sciences | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Engineering | 18 | 18 | 21 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 18 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 5 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 |
Other engineering | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 14 | 28 | 26 | 30 | 24 | 37 | 42 | 41 | 31 | 36 |
Clinical medicine | 4 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 23 | 22 | 17 | 21 |
Other health | 10 | 15 | 13 | 19 | 14 | 22 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 15 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 367,557 | 302,329 | 280,131 | 285,764 | 269,685 | 267,647 | 265,522 | 259,397 | 258,056 | 242,251 | ||||||||||
Science | 287,978 | 241,905 | 223,646 | 228,990 | 216,919 | 217,336 | 218,981 | 207,292 | 204,194 | 196,902 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 4,766 | 5,294 | 5,575 | 5,103 | 4,807 | 4,342 | 4,317 | 3,835 | 3,824 | 3,765 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 11,254 | 10,483 | 9,186 | 10,974 | 10,356 | 9,289 | 9,385 | 10,348 | 9,488 | 9,094 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,150 | 746 | 920 | 1,073 | 296 | 388 | 149 | 64 | 35 | 102 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 10,104 | 9,737 | 8,266 | 9,901 | 10,060 | 8,901 | 9,236 | 10,284 | 9,453 | 8,992 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 220,304 | 175,232 | 157,618 | 165,087 | 155,958 | 160,162 | 162,256 | 143,533 | 146,296 | 140,472 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 13,050 | 10,683 | 8,613 | 10,079 | 9,876 | 10,396 | 10,178 | 7,011 | 6,949 | 5,784 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 105,565 | 79,715 | 75,806 | 69,141 | 62,683 | 62,173 | 66,416 | 68,185 | 78,795 | 76,549 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 89,129 | 74,770 | 64,335 | 76,662 | 72,241 | 77,275 | 76,743 | 60,029 | 56,995 | 56,508 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 5,190 | 3,616 | 3,203 | 2,905 | 2,321 | 2,810 | 2,459 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 7,370 | 6,448 | 5,661 | 6,300 | 8,837 | 7,508 | 6,460 | 8,308 | 3,557 | 1,631 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 2,616 | 2,119 | 2,344 | 2,362 | 2,296 | 1,805 | 1,586 | 1,481 | 1,716 | 1,032 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 11,245 | 17,682 | 18,546 | 16,829 | 16,816 | 15,352 | 14,796 | 10,993 | 9,977 | 7,877 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 5,492 | 4,998 | 5,868 | 4,713 | 5,170 | 5,319 | 5,753 | 5,900 | 5,794 | 3,983 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 7,202 | 6,644 | 5,786 | 5,673 | 5,162 | 4,477 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 5,753 | 5,482 | 6,034 | 6,330 | 5,973 | 4,871 | 4,566 | 5,093 | 4,183 | 3,894 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 26,385 | 22,130 | 21,553 | 18,641 | 17,741 | 17,602 | 19,391 | 18,787 | 18,048 | 22,981 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 9,724 | 6,705 | 6,645 | 8,455 | 8,481 | 6,803 | 6,335 | 6,838 | 6,795 | 4,835 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 688 | 594 | 626 | 738 | 469 | 433 | 342 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 3,536 | 2,195 | 1,683 | 2,790 | 2,629 | 2,548 | 2,019 | 1,795 | 2,255 | 2,065 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 1,667 | 663 | 726 | 797 | 646 | 357 | 474 | 301 | 573 | 716 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 2,943 | 2,349 | 2,850 | 3,229 | 3,271 | 2,390 | 2,480 | 3,586 | 2,947 | 637 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 890 | 904 | 760 | 901 | 1,466 | 1,075 | 1,020 | 1,156 | 1,020 | 1,417 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,684 | 2,260 | 2,179 | 1,539 | 464 | 1,981 | 915 | 11,477 | 8,050 | 6,846 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 68,902 | 54,185 | 46,751 | 44,044 | 39,907 | 39,840 | 38,977 | 44,329 | 43,185 | 39,224 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 5,736 | 4,486 | 3,677 | 3,414 | 3,192 | 2,767 | 1,675 | 746 | 610 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 8,061 | 7,486 | 6,131 | 6,223 | 4,817 | 3,164 | 4,182 | 6,149 | 5,048 | 5,099 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 21,804 | 17,982 | 14,913 | 14,185 | 13,296 | 11,847 | 10,256 | 10,138 | 8,433 | 10,316 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 8,613 | 7,267 | 8,364 | 7,957 | 7,624 | 8,365 | 8,591 | 8,154 | 7,466 | 6,174 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 8,539 | 7,914 | 5,456 | 4,870 | 4,779 | 5,622 | 5,363 | 6,515 | 8,089 | 6,030 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 14,963 | 7,597 | 6,583 | 5,250 | 4,507 | 5,000 | 4,971 | 6,702 | 5,715 | 9,037 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 1,186 | 1,453 | 1,627 | 2,145 | 1,692 | 3,075 | 3,939 | 5,925 | 7,824 | 2,568 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 10,677 | 6,239 | 9,734 | 12,730 | 12,859 | 10,471 | 7,564 | 7,776 | 10,677 | 6,125 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 1,684 | 870 | 939 | 1,792 | 310 | 403 | 112 | 709 | 3,808 | 257 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 165 | 200 | 245 | 259 | 107 | 90 | 60 | 356 | 430 | 97 | ||||||||||
Education | 1,597 | 1,155 | 1,874 | 3,860 | 4,796 | 4,295 | 3,163 | 3,934 | 3,212 | 2,153 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 1,029 | 433 | 1,287 | 2,758 | 3,232 | 3,551 | 744 | 577 | 486 | 564 | ||||||||||
Law | 96 | 111 | 102 | 58 | 125 | 157 | 33 | 230 | 90 | 381 | ||||||||||
Social work | 3,091 | 1,521 | 2,885 | 1,966 | 1,175 | 1,216 | 1,641 | 1,819 | 2,447 | 2,554 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 1,515 | 587 | 607 | 965 | 773 | 445 | 242 | 151 | 204 | 119 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 1,500 | 1,362 | 1,795 | 1,072 | 2,341 | 314 | 1,569 | 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
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 | 367,557 | 230,752 | 4,242 | 103,966 | 11,371 | 13,166 | 4,060 | |||||||
Science | 287,978 | 184,933 | 1,653 | 79,316 | 7,040 | 10,993 | 4,043 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 4,766 | 2,672 | 313 | 1,316 | 465 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 11,254 | 7,812 | 17 | 3,327 | 71 | 27 | 0 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,150 | 864 | 0 | 286 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 10,104 | 6,948 | 17 | 3,041 | 71 | 27 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 220,304 | 144,287 | 603 | 58,052 | 5,295 | 8,173 | 3,894 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 13,050 | 5,068 | 123 | 7,206 | 477 | 176 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 105,565 | 79,695 | 55 | 19,434 | 750 | 4,530 | 1,101 | |||||||
Health sciences | 89,129 | 57,044 | 191 | 22,118 | 3,586 | 3,397 | 2,793 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 5,190 | 2,480 | 234 | 1,936 | 482 | 58 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 7,370 | 0 | 0 | 7,358 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 2,616 | 1,710 | 0 | 468 | 419 | 18 | 1 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 11,245 | 8,473 | 0 | 2,464 | 125 | 180 | 3 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 5,492 | 4,189 | 0 | 1,109 | 125 | 69 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 5,753 | 4,284 | 0 | 1,355 | 0 | 111 | 3 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 26,385 | 15,765 | 167 | 8,078 | 532 | 1,698 | 145 | |||||||
Social sciences | 9,724 | 4,175 | 553 | 4,141 | 133 | 722 | 0 | |||||||
Anthropology | 688 | 188 | 0 | 358 | 0 | 142 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 3,536 | 1,598 | 5 | 1,825 | 5 | 103 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 1,667 | 155 | 548 | 782 | 0 | 182 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 2,943 | 1,610 | 0 | 913 | 128 | 292 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 890 | 624 | 0 | 263 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,684 | 39 | 0 | 1,470 | 0 | 175 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 68,902 | 42,418 | 1,738 | 20,043 | 4,125 | 561 | 17 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 5,736 | 4,715 | 0 | 866 | 109 | 46 | 0 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 8,061 | 4,795 | 414 | 2,280 | 416 | 156 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 21,804 | 13,601 | 1,324 | 4,793 | 1,928 | 158 | 0 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 8,613 | 5,879 | 0 | 1,801 | 814 | 104 | 15 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 8,539 | 5,903 | 0 | 2,031 | 605 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 14,963 | 7,344 | 0 | 7,267 | 253 | 97 | 2 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 1,186 | 181 | 0 | 1,005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 10,677 | 3,401 | 851 | 4,607 | 206 | 1,612 | 0 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 1,684 | 181 | 58 | 652 | 172 | 621 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 165 | 77 | 0 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 1,597 | 1,073 | 5 | 475 | 34 | 10 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 1,029 | 26 | 0 | 645 | 0 | 358 | 0 | |||||||
Law | 96 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 3,091 | 1,534 | 788 | 684 | 0 | 85 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 1,515 | 510 | 0 | 471 | 0 | 534 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 1,500 | 0 | 0 | 1,496 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Source of funds | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 230,752 | 183,362 | 164,848 | 159,220 | 144,048 | 145,637 | 146,390 | 137,980 | 144,104 | 148,651 | ||||||||||
DOD | 22,079 | 18,901 | 13,660 | 10,573 | 8,617 | 9,617 | 9,547 | 8,711 | 10,982 | 11,646 | ||||||||||
DOE | 6,786 | 6,529 | 6,731 | 5,187 | 4,070 | 4,504 | 5,245 | 4,909 | 4,983 | 5,525 | ||||||||||
HHS | 125,263 | 106,354 | 93,640 | 92,365 | 82,666 | 85,401 | 86,255 | 80,983 | 84,927 | 87,965 | ||||||||||
NASA | 2,243 | 2,866 | 1,647 | 1,309 | 1,360 | 1,842 | 1,889 | 1,082 | 1,079 | 1,064 | ||||||||||
NSF | 42,254 | 22,779 | 24,383 | 26,288 | 23,861 | 20,375 | 19,595 | 19,754 | 21,796 | 22,112 | ||||||||||
USDA | 8,702 | 5,251 | 5,757 | 5,407 | 5,599 | 6,420 | 6,347 | 5,680 | 5,623 | 5,752 | ||||||||||
Other | 23,425 | 20,682 | 19,030 | 18,091 | 17,875 | 17,478 | 17,512 | 16,861 | 14,714 | 14,587 |
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 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | . | . | . | . | |||
2021 | . | . | . | . | |||
2020 | . | . | . | . | |||
2019 | 5,363 | 798 | 4,565 | . | |||
2018 | 5,388 | 798 | 4,590 | . | |||
2017 | 5,034 | 753 | 4,281 | . | |||
2016 | 4,892 | 741 | 4,151 | . |
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 | 1,359 | 1,427 | 1,433 | 1,328 | 1,281 |
Agricultural sciences | 93 | 99 | 103 | 161 | 110 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 372 | 385 | 583 | 544 | 536 |
Computer and information sciences | 10 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
Engineering | 111 | 108 | 98 | 97 | 119 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 32 | 33 | 36 | 44 | 33 |
Health sciences | 424 | 431 | 348 | 300 | 319 |
Mathematics and statistics | 4 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 4 |
Natural resources and conservation | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | . |
Physical sciences | 129 | 146 | 137 | 120 | 102 |
Psychology | 47 | 54 | 60 | 30 | 27 |
Social sciences | 128 | 151 | 38 | 9 | 18 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Field | Planned to start in FY 2022 or FY 2023 | Started in FY 2020 or FY 2021 | Started in FY 2018 or FY 2019 | Started in FY 2016 or FY 2017 | Started in FY 2014 or FY 2015 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | . | 54,491 | 1,923 | . | 73,316 |
Agricultural sciences | . | . | 1,923 | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | . | . | . | . | 41,174 |
Engineering | . | . | . | . | 32,142 |
Health sciences | . | 1,331 | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | . | 49,615 | . | . | . |
Social sciences | . | 3,545 | . | . | . |
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 | 51,439 | 32,573 | 77,062 | 43,190 | 34,712 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 287 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 10,127 | 24,257 | 53,076 | 33,452 | 30,275 |
Computer and information sciences | 421 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 324 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 2,689 | 0 | 0 |
Health sciences | 12,066 | 6,260 | 700 | 9,298 | 4,150 |
Mathematics and statistics | 421 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 970 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 26,756 | 1,086 | 20,273 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 1,648 | 0 | 0 | 439 | 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.