U. Dayton

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 | 267 | 59.9 | 448 | 131 | 19.6 | 691 | 141 | 24.8 | 583 | 132 | 15.3 | 909 |
2020 | 218 | 48.8 | 450 | 159 | 23.5 | 697 | 135 | 15.5 | 915 | |||
2019 | 216 | 48.7 | 447 | 163 | 24.1 | 696 | 156 | 27.1 | 589 | 132 | 15.2 | 913 |
2018 | 225 | 52.9 | 428 | 159 | 23.4 | 698 | 136 | 15.7 | 910 | |||
2017 | 232 | 54.9 | 425 | 168 | 25.2 | 684 | 207 | 36.5 | 575 | 138 | 16.1 | 897 |
2016 | 228 | 53.4 | 430 | 172 | 25.3 | 697 | 140 | 16.4 | 895 | |||
2015 | 236 | 55.7 | 426 | 176 | 26 | 693 | 211 | 37.5 | 570 | 145 | 16.9 | 897 |
2014 | 260 | 61.9 | 422 | 154 | 23 | 688 | 156 | 18.3 | 887 | |||
2013 | 235 | 56.7 | 417 | 159 | 29.2 | 555 | 198 | 34.2 | 588 | 157 | 18.5 | 884 |
2012 | 266 | 64.8 | 412 | 160 | 29.4 | 555 | 160 | 18.7 | 892 |
NOTES:
- 1. See TableBuilder for the prior year data.
- 2. Blank white cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or institution not eligible for survey.
- 3. Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Data

Fields | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All fields | 25 | 44 | 45 | 41 | 40 | 41 | 34 | 27 | 30 | 22 |
Science and engineering | 17 | 35 | 32 | 30 | 28 | 28 | 23 | 15 | 19 | 18 |
Science | 3 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
Life science | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
Biological sciences | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | . | 3 | . | 2 |
Physics and astronomy | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | . | 3 | . | 2 |
Psychology and social sciences | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Engineering | 14 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 22 | 23 | 18 | 11 | 14 | 13 |
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering | . | . | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | . | . | 1 | 2 |
Electrical engineering | 6 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 6 |
Materials/metallurgical engineering | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Mechanical engineering | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | . | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Other engineering | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | . | . |
Non-science and engineering | 8 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 4 |
Education | 3 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 2 |
Education administration | 2 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
Education research | . | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | . |
Teaching fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . |
Other education | 1 | . | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | . |
Humanities | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
Letters | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Other humanities and arts | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
Other | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Business management/administration | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates
All races | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All full-time students | 1,126 | 779 | 815 | 837 | 745 | 843 | 787 | 953 | 851 | 810 |
Male | 766 | 496 | 546 | 556 | 479 | 524 | 509 | 629 | 545 | 512 |
Female | 360 | 283 | 269 | 281 | 266 | 319 | 278 | 324 | 306 | 298 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 293 | 292 | 244 | 373 | 351 | 393 | 336 | 367 | 347 | 363 |
Hispanic or Latino | 8 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 13 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 278 | 278 | 230 | 335 | 326 | 365 | 304 | 324 | 315 | 340 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Asian | 7 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 4 |
Black or African American | 11 | 17 | 17 | 37 | 26 | 33 | 27 | 38 | 35 | 39 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 251 | 247 | 201 | 278 | 266 | 296 | 257 | 271 | 265 | 296 |
More than one race | 9 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 7 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 33 | 20 | 10 |
Temporary visa holders | 833 | 487 | 571 | 464 | 394 | 450 | 451 | 586 | 504 | 447 |
Science and engineering | 1,126 | 779 | 815 | 834 | 738 | 831 | 787 | 940 | 842 | 795 |
Science | 722 | 371 | 406 | 309 | 252 | 346 | 301 | 272 | 270 | 263 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 14 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 18 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 15 | 15 | 26 | 29 | 27 |
Computer and information sciences | 583 | 242 | 313 | 148 | 92 | 130 | 92 | 52 | 37 | 19 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 11 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 22 | 32 | 31 | 34 | 33 | 45 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 104 | 106 | 59 | 116 | 112 | 130 | 125 | 121 | 126 | 130 |
Physical sciences | 10 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 |
Social sciences | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | 18 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 20 |
Engineering | 404 | 408 | 409 | 525 | 486 | 485 | 486 | 668 | 572 | 532 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 34 | 35 | 27 | 25 | 26 | 25 | 26 | 35 | 30 | 26 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 12 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 3 | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 17 | 19 | 22 | 62 | 29 | 25 | 28 | 37 | 44 | 43 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 27 | 28 | 28 | 34 | 30 | 40 | 32 | 23 | 25 | 17 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 160 | 178 | 194 | 187 | 178 | 189 | 210 | 260 | 221 | 176 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | 0 | . | 30 | 48 | 35 | . | 85 | 47 | 47 |
Mechanical engineering | 110 | 89 | 97 | 89 | 95 | 88 | 90 | 120 | 93 | 91 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 29 | 30 | 22 | 78 | 54 | 50 | 55 | 60 | 66 | 82 |
Other engineering | 15 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 23 | 33 | 45 | 48 | 46 | 50 |
Health | . | . | . | 3 | 7 | 12 | . | 13 | 9 | 15 |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | . | . | . | 3 | 7 | 12 | . | 13 | 9 | 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).
All races | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All part-time students | 171 | 172 | 138 | 171 | 186 | 197 | 211 | 224 | 213 | 211 |
Male | 104 | 114 | 98 | 89 | 107 | 111 | 112 | 125 | 124 | 129 |
Female | 67 | 58 | 40 | 82 | 79 | 86 | 99 | 99 | 89 | 82 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 112 | 96 | 81 | 130 | 136 | 157 | 127 | 162 | 163 | 163 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 111 | 93 | 75 | 118 | 121 | 143 | 118 | 144 | 154 | 155 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Asian | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Black or African American | 7 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 22 | 28 | 26 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 99 | 81 | 66 | 105 | 104 | 123 | 99 | 119 | 123 | 125 |
More than one race | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 14 | 6 | 4 |
Temporary visa holders | 59 | 76 | 57 | 41 | 50 | 40 | 84 | 62 | 50 | 48 |
Science and engineering | 171 | 172 | 138 | 171 | 184 | 196 | 211 | 221 | 207 | 211 |
Science | 80 | 87 | 55 | 76 | 87 | 99 | 99 | 85 | 82 | 83 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
Computer and information sciences | 40 | 62 | 34 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 37 | 22 | 14 | 51 | 64 | 65 | 71 | 69 | 67 | 58 |
Physical sciences | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Social sciences | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
Engineering | 91 | 85 | 83 | 95 | 97 | 97 | 112 | 136 | 125 | 128 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 12 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 5 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 15 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 6 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 9 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 30 | 32 | 26 | 16 | 26 | 22 | 45 | 43 | 27 | 29 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | 0 | . | 22 | 19 | 21 | . | 31 | 34 | 34 |
Mechanical engineering | 22 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 16 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 11 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 16 | 9 |
Other engineering | 4 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 11 |
Health | . | . | . | 0 | 2 | 1 | . | 3 | 6 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | . | . | . | 0 | 2 | 1 | . | 3 | 6 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All surveyed fields | 46 | 47 | 40 | 56 | 56 | 47 | 48 | 62 | 64 | 82 |
Science and engineering | 46 | 47 | 40 | 56 | 56 | 47 | 48 | 62 | 64 | 82 |
Science | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 43 | 46 | 39 | 53 | 54 | 46 | 47 | 58 | 61 | 80 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 10 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 28 | 24 | 31 | 44 | 38 | 31 | 19 | 33 | 33 | 37 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 5 | 11 |
Mechanical engineering | 9 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Other engineering | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 9 |
Health | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- 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 | 1,126 | 779 | 815 | 837 | 745 | 843 | 787 | 953 | 851 | 810 |
Fellowships | 7 | 17 | 19 | 25 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 35 | 47 |
Federal | 3 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
Institutional | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 20 |
Nonfederal | 2 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 21 |
Research assistantships | 68 | 83 | 79 | 91 | 85 | 102 | 99 | 88 | 87 | 112 |
Federal | 42 | 33 | 28 | 41 | 46 | 45 | 43 | 53 | 52 | 61 |
Institutional | 15 | 44 | 45 | 39 | 35 | 46 | 55 | 30 | 33 | 41 |
Nonfederal | 11 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
Teaching assistantships | 55 | 46 | 52 | 70 | 64 | 76 | 70 | 84 | 69 | 54 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Institutional | 53 | 46 | 52 | 54 | 62 | 76 | 66 | 81 | 67 | 54 |
Nonfederal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Other types of support | 996 | 633 | 665 | 651 | 590 | 660 | 612 | 764 | 660 | 597 |
Federal | 1 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 15 |
Institutional | 0 | 24 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 5 |
Nonfederal | 16 | 48 | 23 | 58 | 64 | 21 | 14 | 1 | 35 | 25 |
Personal resources | 979 | 556 | 629 | 575 | 500 | 637 | 579 | 749 | 606 | 552 |
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 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 11 |
Science | 7 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 7 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 0 | 1 | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 4 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | 1 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- 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 | 17 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 |
Science and engineering | 17 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 |
Science | 15 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | . | . | . |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 12 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | 1 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- 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 | 191,228 | 163,718 | 165,343 | 147,001 | 135,214 | 116,589 | 98,182 | 86,881 | 84,252 | 81,030 | ||||||||||
Science | 9,583 | 9,134 | 6,908 | 4,600 | 4,869 | 5,484 | 6,159 | 5,244 | 4,762 | 3,081 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 7,528 | 7,200 | 4,245 | 1,445 | 1,838 | 2,036 | 2,523 | 2,423 | 2,124 | 370 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 465 | 359 | 428 | 225 | 77 | 194 | 106 | 165 | 91 | 178 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 311 | 252 | 252 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 154 | 107 | 174 | 102 | 56 | 194 | 106 | 165 | 89 | 81 | ||||||||||
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 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 97 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 544 | 632 | 818 | 1,002 | 522 | 547 | 811 | 969 | 1,032 | 1,196 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 45 | 56 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 163 | 217 | 168 | 202 | 220 | 525 | 808 | 953 | 987 | 1,140 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 210 | 216 | 413 | 346 | 229 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 171 | 199 | 237 | 454 | 73 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 115 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 910 | 868 | 1,247 | 1,579 | 1,932 | 1,848 | 1,664 | 1,370 | 1,127 | 741 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 122 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 194 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 146 | 114 | 236 | 116 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 205 | 422 | 700 | 537 | 475 | 269 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 511 | 438 | 539 | 1,030 | 1,311 | 1,465 | 1,428 | 1,254 | 1,097 | 619 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 118 | 33 | 43 | 62 | 121 | 114 | 73 | 16 | 19 | 31 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 15 | 38 | 109 | 115 | 96 | 96 | 178 | 40 | 128 | 122 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 63 | 4 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 7 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 19 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 8 | 21 | 19 | 45 | 83 | 63 | 36 | 21 | 53 | 99 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 3 | 79 | 56 | 2 | 30 | 134 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 18 | 172 | 255 | 642 | 804 | 261 | 240 | 328 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 180,158 | 153,082 | 157,016 | 139,036 | 122,338 | 105,879 | 87,160 | 78,165 | 77,587 | 76,796 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 16,125 | 13,746 | 10,309 | 8,262 | 9,261 | 9,474 | 7,789 | 6,679 | 8,830 | 8,466 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 41 | 38 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 5,851 | 9,840 | 9,189 | 9,213 | 6,837 | 5,024 | 4,290 | 4,372 | 6,445 | 6,346 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 282 | 490 | 4,614 | 1,877 | 1,736 | 2,543 | 2,013 | 3,757 | 207 | 337 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 8,558 | 8,499 | 8,064 | 9,456 | 7,706 | 6,245 | 8,611 | 9,811 | 10,636 | 9,423 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 40,363 | 28,274 | 29,985 | 24,032 | 13,216 | 3,757 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 7,900 | 7,667 | 4,653 | 4,940 | 3,735 | 2,648 | 2,952 | 2,234 | 1,391 | 1,568 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 84,081 | 68,755 | 77,302 | 70,495 | 63,617 | 51,454 | 44,484 | 39,849 | 39,452 | 40,988 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 16,998 | 15,811 | 12,900 | 10,761 | 16,230 | 24,734 | 17,021 | 11,440 | 10,585 | 9,630 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 1,487 | 1,502 | 1,419 | 3,365 | 8,007 | 5,226 | 4,863 | 3,472 | 1,903 | 1,153 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 116 | 74 | 98 | 17 | 132 | 310 | 41 | 6 | 11 | 31 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 23 | 20 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||||
Education | 825 | 882 | 650 | 2,937 | 7,629 | 4,665 | 4,710 | 3,205 | 1,818 | 1,003 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 11 | 32 | 84 | 39 | 43 | 55 | 41 | 49 | 38 | 56 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 21 | 259 | 312 | 322 | 134 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 36 | 9 | 20 | 37 | 54 | 51 | 67 | 198 | 33 | 57 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 455 | 226 | 240 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 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 | 191,228 | 181,445 | 425 | 2,288 | 6,277 | 272 | 521 | |||||||
Science | 9,583 | 8,614 | 187 | 103 | 407 | 153 | 119 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 7,528 | 6,724 | 160 | 63 | 348 | 114 | 119 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 465 | 461 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 311 | 311 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 154 | 150 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 544 | 529 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 163 | 163 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Health sciences | 210 | 195 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 171 | 171 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 910 | 820 | 23 | 8 | 59 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 194 | 108 | 23 | 4 | 59 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 205 | 205 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 511 | 507 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 118 | 80 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 25 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Anthropology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 180,158 | 171,865 | 82 | 1,927 | 5,773 | 109 | 402 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 16,125 | 15,823 | 0 | 300 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 5,851 | 5,501 | 0 | 29 | 287 | 0 | 34 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 282 | 131 | 27 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 91 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 8,558 | 7,430 | 33 | 308 | 566 | 33 | 188 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 40,363 | 39,515 | 0 | 135 | 713 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 7,900 | 7,170 | 0 | 240 | 441 | 49 | 0 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 84,081 | 79,405 | 0 | 839 | 3,722 | 26 | 89 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 16,998 | 16,890 | 22 | 43 | 42 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 1,487 | 966 | 156 | 258 | 97 | 10 | 0 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 116 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 97 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 23 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 825 | 521 | 137 | 157 | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 21 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 36 | 33 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 455 | 395 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Source of funds | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 181,445 | 154,101 | 153,328 | 132,358 | 118,452 | 100,955 | 77,973 | 66,318 | 67,698 | 65,169 | ||||||||||
DOD | 104,393 | 90,417 | 72,068 | 68,780 | 69,286 | 76,886 | 65,468 | 58,144 | 61,079 | 60,185 | ||||||||||
DOE | 3,748 | 4,142 | 3,108 | 2,117 | 2,165 | 1,553 | 1,250 | 811 | 886 | 1,125 | ||||||||||
HHS | 260 | 236 | 141 | 84 | 65 | 82 | 308 | 635 | 582 | 744 | ||||||||||
NASA | 804 | 991 | 754 | 843 | 633 | 678 | 309 | 265 | 391 | 248 | ||||||||||
NSF | 838 | 899 | 1,314 | 1,267 | 1,447 | 961 | 966 | 810 | 741 | 670 | ||||||||||
USDA | 2 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Other | 71,400 | 57,406 | 75,943 | 59,265 | 44,854 | 20,795 | 9,672 | 5,653 | 4,019 | 2,197 |
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 | 1,152 | 238 | 914 | . | |||
2018 | 1,240 | 235 | 1,005 | . | |||
2017 | 1,149 | 225 | 924 | . | |||
2016 | 1,095 | 237 | 858 | . | |||
2015 | 1,016 | 222 | 794 | 6 |
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 | 488 | 375 | 239 | 233 | 248 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
Computer and information sciences | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 484 | 365 | 228 | 229 | 240 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . |
Physical sciences | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
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 | . | . | . | . | 11,400 |
Engineering | . | . | . | . | 11,400 |
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 | 8,525 | 1,896 | 8,319 | 9,918 | 4,160 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 2,100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 2,225 | 1,896 | 8,319 | 9,918 | 4,160 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 2,100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 2,100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.