U. Florida

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 | 8 | 2.6 | 448 | 19 | 3.6 | 691 | 1 | 1 | 583 | 27 | 3.8 | 909 |
2020 | 14 | 3.9 | 450 | 17 | 3.3 | 697 | 26 | 3.7 | 915 | |||
2019 | 13 | 3.7 | 447 | 14 | 2.8 | 696 | 1 | 1 | 589 | 26 | 3.7 | 913 |
2018 | 8 | 2.6 | 428 | 19 | 3.6 | 698 | 26 | 3.7 | 910 | |||
2017 | 11 | 3.3 | 425 | 8 | 2 | 684 | 1 | 1 | 575 | 25 | 3.6 | 897 |
2016 | 7 | 2.4 | 430 | 5 | 1.6 | 697 | 24 | 3.6 | 895 | |||
2015 | 6 | 2.2 | 426 | 6 | 1.7 | 693 | 1 | 1 | 570 | 25 | 3.6 | 897 |
2014 | 5 | 1.9 | 422 | 8 | 2 | 688 | 26 | 3.8 | 887 | |||
2013 | 9 | 2.9 | 417 | 6 | 1.9 | 555 | 4 | 1.5 | 588 | 27 | 3.9 | 884 |
2012 | 9 | 2.9 | 412 | 3 | 1.4 | 555 | 23 | 3.4 | 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 | 711 | 650 | 718 | 738 | 714 | 730 | 747 | 763 | 725 | 692 |
Science and engineering | 587 | 535 | 598 | 616 | 590 | 601 | 595 | 635 | 587 | 562 |
Science | 442 | 406 | 455 | 465 | 423 | 463 | 419 | 437 | 412 | 375 |
Life science | 243 | 238 | 248 | 247 | 228 | 241 | 246 | 212 | 244 | 199 |
Agricultural sciences | 62 | 71 | 65 | 67 | 64 | 57 | 68 | 55 | 67 | 56 |
Biological sciences | 135 | 109 | 129 | 130 | 114 | 132 | 124 | 107 | 127 | 111 |
Health sciences | 46 | 58 | 54 | 50 | 50 | 52 | 54 | 50 | 50 | 32 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | 58 | 66 | 74 | 76 | 75 | 91 | 50 | 79 | 58 | 71 |
Chemistry | 33 | 37 | 40 | 43 | 41 | 49 | 27 | 43 | 24 | 35 |
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 11 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 3 |
Physics and astronomy | 14 | 23 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 25 | 19 | 27 | 23 | 33 |
Mathematics and computer sciences | 45 | 27 | 38 | 40 | 26 | 35 | 24 | 41 | 34 | 34 |
Computer sciences | 26 | 12 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 14 |
Mathematics | 19 | 15 | 23 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 13 | 27 | 21 | 20 |
Psychology and social sciences | 96 | 75 | 95 | 102 | 94 | 96 | 99 | 105 | 76 | 71 |
Psychology | 52 | 29 | 40 | 35 | 34 | 31 | 40 | 30 | 32 | 30 |
Anthropology | 10 | 13 | 13 | 19 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 11 |
Economics | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 2 |
Political science and government | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
Sociology | 6 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 1 |
Other social sciences | 20 | 19 | 22 | 34 | 24 | 29 | 30 | 35 | 16 | 21 |
Engineering | 145 | 129 | 143 | 151 | 167 | 138 | 176 | 198 | 175 | 187 |
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering | 7 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 9 |
Biological/biomedical sciences | 19 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 19 | 18 | 9 |
Chemical engineering | 10 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 9 | 13 | 9 |
Civil engineering | 9 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 15 | 13 | 11 |
Electrical engineering | 21 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 31 | 26 | 36 |
Industrial engineering | 2 | 2 | 2 | . | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Materials/metallurgical engineering | 18 | 12 | 15 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 25 | 22 | 26 |
Mechanical engineering | 23 | 16 | 28 | 21 | 26 | 17 | 39 | 24 | 21 | 35 |
Other engineering | 36 | 43 | 45 | 56 | 49 | 39 | 55 | 60 | 48 | 49 |
Non-science and engineering | 124 | 115 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 129 | 152 | 128 | 138 | 130 |
Education | 38 | 54 | 38 | 49 | 47 | 57 | 50 | 52 | 48 | 45 |
Education administration | . | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Education research | 32 | 36 | 23 | 34 | 31 | 27 | 32 | 38 | 33 | 28 |
Teacher education | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 |
Teaching fields | 6 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 23 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 11 |
Other education | . | 3 | . | . | 1 | 5 | . | . | . | 1 |
Humanities | 32 | 23 | 36 | 38 | 44 | 40 | 56 | 50 | 45 | 45 |
Foreign languages & literature | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | . | 8 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
History | 3 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 6 |
Letters | 12 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 10 |
Other humanities and arts | 14 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 14 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 22 |
Other | 54 | 38 | 46 | 35 | 33 | 32 | 46 | 26 | 45 | 40 |
Business management/administration | 21 | 16 | 15 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 21 | 4 | 16 | 13 |
Communication | 15 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 19 | 17 |
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec) | 18 | 8 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
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 | 5,587 | 5,137 | 5,296 | 4,905 | 5,592 | 6,240 | 5,882 | 5,436 | 5,666 | 6,012 |
Male | 3,115 | 2,913 | 3,090 | 2,838 | 3,237 | 3,594 | 3,353 | 3,061 | 3,229 | 3,506 |
Female | 2,472 | 2,224 | 2,206 | 2,067 | 2,355 | 2,646 | 2,529 | 2,375 | 2,437 | 2,506 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 3,219 | 2,971 | 2,742 | 2,596 | 2,718 | 2,891 | 2,976 | 2,872 | 2,971 | 3,091 |
Hispanic or Latino | 630 | 516 | 453 | 405 | 373 | 376 | 357 | 341 | 358 | 346 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 2,460 | 2,332 | 2,164 | 2,081 | 2,199 | 2,335 | 2,466 | 2,383 | 2,447 | 2,571 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 29 | 16 | 18 | 18 |
Asian | 249 | 208 | 190 | 160 | 175 | 188 | 239 | 217 | 219 | 223 |
Black or African American | 221 | 181 | 160 | 158 | 171 | 164 | 209 | 215 | 215 | 217 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 1,843 | 1,806 | 1,711 | 1,680 | 1,781 | 1,898 | 1,989 | 1,935 | 1,995 | 2,113 |
More than one race | 137 | 124 | 92 | 72 | 61 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 129 | 123 | 125 | 110 | 146 | 180 | 153 | 148 | 166 | 174 |
Temporary visa holders | 2,368 | 2,166 | 2,554 | 2,309 | 2,874 | 3,349 | 2,906 | 2,564 | 2,695 | 2,921 |
Science and engineering | 5,121 | 4,702 | 4,802 | 4,423 | 5,064 | 5,674 | 5,032 | 4,625 | 4,858 | 5,155 |
Science | 3,615 | 3,253 | 3,228 | 2,914 | 3,367 | 3,639 | 2,861 | 2,672 | 2,664 | 2,631 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 419 | 378 | 335 | 331 | 312 | 476 | 480 | 456 | 357 | 360 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 1,327 | 1,148 | 1,046 | 1,005 | 985 | 924 | 781 | 721 | 772 | 781 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 119 | 111 | 134 | 169 | 169 |
Computer and information sciences | 671 | 583 | 682 | 429 | 760 | 930 | 288 | 184 | 100 | 4 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 42 | 40 | 32 | 34 | 40 | 41 | 44 | 43 | 40 | 38 |
Mathematics and statistics | 138 | 129 | 138 | 131 | 124 | 132 | 130 | 124 | 116 | 146 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 151 | 151 | 140 | 144 | 146 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 450 | 416 | 439 | 420 | 408 | 408 | 420 | 401 | 422 | 411 |
Psychology | 16 | 13 | 14 | 21 | 192 | 195 | 194 | 188 | 194 | 200 |
Social sciences | 401 | 395 | 402 | 399 | 400 | 414 | 413 | 421 | 494 | 522 |
Engineering | 1,506 | 1,449 | 1,574 | 1,509 | 1,697 | 2,035 | 2,171 | 1,953 | 2,194 | 2,524 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 85 | 66 | 75 | 65 | 62 | 66 | 69 | 59 | 61 | 74 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 134 | 133 | 148 | 141 | 131 | 159 | 145 | 105 | 111 | 126 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 104 | 106 | 123 | 133 | 153 | 159 | 165 | 173 | 193 | 205 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 195 | 180 | 202 | 185 | 203 | 218 | 434 | 409 | 459 | 443 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 491 | 445 | 492 | 399 | 469 | 561 | 674 | 549 | 631 | 851 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 69 | 55 | 52 | 50 | 55 | 54 | 59 | 56 | 98 | 108 |
Mechanical engineering | 246 | 250 | 278 | 281 | 330 | 303 | 302 | 296 | 293 | 364 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 89 | 109 | 107 | 142 | 178 | 214 | 203 | 188 | 225 | 218 |
Other engineering | 93 | 105 | 97 | 113 | 116 | 301 | 120 | 118 | 123 | 135 |
Health | 466 | 435 | 494 | 482 | 528 | 566 | 850 | 811 | 808 | 857 |
Clinical medicine | 213 | 200 | 203 | 189 | 175 | 157 | 348 | 331 | 330 | 337 |
Other health | 253 | 235 | 291 | 293 | 353 | 409 | 502 | 480 | 478 | 520 |
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 | 2,992 | 2,027 | 1,485 | 1,496 | 6 | 9 | 1,905 | 1,881 | 1,942 | 1,855 |
Male | 1,206 | 847 | 665 | 678 | 1 | 1 | 881 | 936 | 1,021 | 934 |
Female | 1,786 | 1,180 | 820 | 818 | 5 | 8 | 1,024 | 945 | 921 | 921 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 2,770 | 1,842 | 1,315 | 1,278 | 6 | 9 | 1,622 | 1,632 | 1,621 | 1,545 |
Hispanic or Latino | 462 | 299 | 192 | 178 | 0 | 0 | 163 | 170 | 154 | 140 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 2,202 | 1,458 | 1,049 | 1,034 | 6 | 9 | 1,374 | 1,385 | 1,402 | 1,343 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 5 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 10 |
Asian | 193 | 111 | 77 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 97 | 103 | 117 |
Black or African American | 172 | 104 | 59 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 127 | 111 | 110 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 1,730 | 1,177 | 876 | 850 | 6 | 9 | 1,154 | 1,150 | 1,173 | 1,106 |
More than one race | 100 | 64 | 30 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 106 | 85 | 74 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 77 | 65 | 62 |
Temporary visa holders | 222 | 185 | 170 | 218 | 0 | 0 | 283 | 249 | 321 | 310 |
Science and engineering | 2,802 | 1,893 | 1,269 | 1,272 | 0 | 0 | 1,195 | 1,206 | 1,339 | 1,254 |
Science | 2,125 | 1,381 | 825 | 809 | 0 | 0 | 649 | 647 | 641 | 553 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 338 | 258 | 74 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 209 | 182 | 169 | 159 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 1,359 | 791 | 452 | 405 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 95 | 118 | 111 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 157 | 197 | 156 | 82 |
Computer and information sciences | 115 | 103 | 78 | 94 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 32 | 7 | 16 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Mathematics and statistics | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 4 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 242 | 159 | 141 | 133 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 5 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 |
Psychology | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 39 | 39 | 44 |
Social sciences | 56 | 50 | 50 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 84 | 130 | 127 |
Engineering | 677 | 512 | 444 | 463 | 0 | 0 | 546 | 559 | 698 | 701 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 74 | 46 | 48 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 27 | 17 | 19 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 16 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 23 | 15 | 21 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 13 | 6 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 20 | 17 | 17 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 94 | 80 | 60 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 123 | 137 | 164 | 180 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 138 | 84 | 86 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 128 | 216 | 189 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 126 | 114 | 87 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 114 | 113 | 150 | 152 |
Mechanical engineering | 137 | 105 | 85 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 63 | 66 | 70 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 64 | 47 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 31 | 37 | 32 |
Other engineering | 15 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 21 |
Health | 190 | 134 | 216 | 224 | 6 | 9 | 710 | 675 | 603 | 601 |
Clinical medicine | 183 | 133 | 101 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 77 | 68 | 66 |
Other health | 7 | 1 | 115 | 133 | 6 | 9 | 641 | 598 | 535 | 535 |
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 | 1,375 | 1,266 | 1,256 | 1,183 | 850 | 883 | 839 | 835 | 592 | 932 |
Science and engineering | 1,312 | 1,219 | 1,202 | 1,142 | 811 | 859 | 813 | 801 | 584 | 909 |
Science | 778 | 704 | 699 | 674 | 466 | 466 | 421 | 416 | 301 | 478 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 101 | 70 | 89 | 93 | 61 | 93 | 105 | 89 | 58 | 79 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 375 | 341 | 325 | 300 | 212 | 194 | 156 | 149 | 115 | 196 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Computer and information sciences | 13 | 30 | 26 | 23 | 46 | 43 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 9 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
Mathematics and statistics | 16 | 13 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 40 | 39 | 44 | 40 | 28 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 25 | 27 | 12 | 38 |
Physical sciences | 153 | 154 | 144 | 130 | 59 | 71 | 96 | 112 | 83 | 114 |
Social sciences | 64 | 49 | 41 | 51 | 29 | 34 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 33 |
Engineering | 534 | 515 | 503 | 468 | 345 | 393 | 392 | 385 | 283 | 431 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 25 | 23 | 32 | 29 | 23 | 20 | 22 | 16 | 14 | 28 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 66 | 65 | 66 | 61 | 36 | 33 | 29 | 24 | 18 | 33 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 34 | 21 | 33 | 28 | 22 | 25 | 25 | 23 | 13 | 25 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 66 | 52 | 56 | 47 | 41 | 41 | 45 | 47 | 38 | 61 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 198 | 182 | 162 | 137 | 98 | 120 | 123 | 115 | 73 | 131 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 8 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 13 |
Mechanical engineering | 69 | 73 | 61 | 65 | 54 | 59 | 72 | 69 | 56 | 67 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 34 | 48 | 50 | 48 | 27 | 38 | 24 | 42 | 37 | 49 |
Other engineering | 34 | 40 | 36 | 48 | 38 | 49 | 41 | 35 | 20 | 24 |
Health | 63 | 47 | 54 | 41 | 39 | 24 | 26 | 34 | 8 | 23 |
Clinical medicine | 20 | 11 | 21 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 8 |
Other health | 43 | 36 | 33 | 29 | 26 | 19 | 15 | 19 | 5 | 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).
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 | 5,587 | 5,137 | 5,296 | 4,905 | 5,592 | 6,240 | 5,882 | 5,436 | 5,666 | 6,012 |
Fellowships | 414 | 395 | 487 | 539 | 503 | 469 | 424 | 441 | 374 | 505 |
Federal | 205 | 205 | 217 | 234 | 120 | 120 | 110 | 97 | 36 | 133 |
Institutional | 169 | 146 | 230 | 247 | 328 | 302 | 276 | 330 | 327 | 357 |
Nonfederal | 40 | 44 | 40 | 58 | 55 | 47 | 38 | 14 | 11 | 15 |
Research assistantships | 1,508 | 1,488 | 1,584 | 1,401 | 1,463 | 1,596 | 1,522 | 1,524 | 1,159 | 1,548 |
Federal | 881 | 787 | 813 | 693 | 590 | 649 | 585 | 595 | 442 | 629 |
Institutional | 493 | 560 | 623 | 565 | 753 | 788 | 811 | 795 | 634 | 806 |
Nonfederal | 134 | 141 | 148 | 143 | 120 | 159 | 126 | 134 | 83 | 113 |
Teaching assistantships | 872 | 825 | 900 | 846 | 809 | 847 | 958 | 880 | 900 | 939 |
Federal | 133 | 145 | 102 | 102 | 45 | 0 | 48 | 47 | 44 | 58 |
Institutional | 682 | 647 | 766 | 712 | 750 | 839 | 899 | 821 | 843 | 869 |
Nonfederal | 57 | 33 | 32 | 32 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 12 |
Other types of support | 2,793 | 2,429 | 2,325 | 2,119 | 2,817 | 3,328 | 2,978 | 2,591 | 3,233 | 3,020 |
Federal | 156 | 129 | 124 | 154 | 95 | 114 | 96 | 96 | 70 | 112 |
Institutional | 254 | 271 | 251 | 326 | 307 | 362 | 341 | 347 | 346 | 360 |
Nonfederal | 44 | 16 | 25 | 29 | 27 | 38 | 32 | 19 | 24 | 19 |
Personal resources | 2,339 | 2,013 | 1,925 | 1,610 | 2,388 | 2,814 | 2,509 | 2,129 | 2,793 | 2,529 |
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 | 439 | 459 | 430 | 382 | 330 | 422 | 476 | 455 | 484 | 480 |
Science | 383 | 386 | 373 | 330 | 284 | 355 | 410 | 383 | 417 | 414 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 114 | 114 | 91 | 81 | 38 | 108 | 120 | 104 | 77 | 90 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 139 | 172 | 181 | 161 | 142 | 150 | 160 | 158 | 201 | 190 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 8 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 34 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 8 |
Mathematics and statistics | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 12 | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 26 | 21 | 22 | 26 | 20 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 7 | 17 | 17 | 21 | 20 |
Physical sciences | 52 | 41 | 37 | 20 | 18 | 47 | 53 | 52 | 58 | 63 |
Psychology | 13 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 23 | 17 |
Social sciences | 15 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 28 | 20 | 20 | 21 |
Engineering | 56 | 73 | 57 | 52 | 46 | 67 | 66 | 72 | 67 | 66 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 11 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 10 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 8 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 17 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 10 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 12 |
Other engineering | 14 | 22 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 20 | 22 | 17 | 19 | 23 |
Health | 222 | 216 | 244 | 282 | 249 | 244 | 203 | 189 | 193 | 194 |
Clinical medicine | 139 | 115 | 132 | 157 | 138 | 144 | 121 | 122 | 128 | 140 |
Other health | 83 | 101 | 112 | 125 | 111 | 100 | 82 | 67 | 65 | 54 |
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 | 321 | 291 | 326 | 299 | 191 | 217 | 249 | 278 | 328 | 312 |
Science and engineering | 264 | 235 | 241 | 220 | 116 | 163 | 206 | 228 | 263 | 243 |
Science | 221 | 192 | 210 | 191 | 109 | 141 | 178 | 182 | 218 | 203 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 66 | 58 | 50 | 52 | 11 | 36 | 60 | 47 | 34 | 42 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 72 | 85 | 100 | 91 | 69 | 63 | 67 | 88 | 119 | 88 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 5 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 9 | . | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 20 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 4 | . | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 |
Psychology | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
Physical sciences | 38 | 22 | 28 | 14 | 3 | 23 | 25 | 19 | 28 | 43 |
Social sciences | 4 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 10 |
Engineering | 43 | 43 | 31 | 29 | 7 | 22 | 28 | 46 | 45 | 40 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 9 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 13 | 7 |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 5 |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 15 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
Other engineering | 10 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 17 |
Health | 57 | 56 | 85 | 79 | 75 | 54 | 43 | 50 | 65 | 69 |
Clinical medicine | 26 | 19 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 28 | 18 | 20 | 34 | 40 |
Other health | 31 | 37 | 59 | 50 | 46 | 26 | 25 | 30 | 31 | 29 |
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 | 959,965 | 942,223 | 928,639 | 865,093 | 801,418 | 791,294 | 739,522 | 708,526 | 695,063 | 696,985 | ||||||||||
Science | 796,800 | 770,611 | 773,173 | 737,782 | 668,643 | 647,397 | 612,443 | 567,070 | 553,591 | 562,110 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 15,238 | 13,006 | 13,569 | 12,515 | 12,606 | 18,436 | 8,648 | 4,426 | 5,921 | 6,442 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 16,189 | 17,740 | 17,186 | 16,846 | 15,350 | 15,833 | 14,765 | 15,170 | 11,766 | 9,586 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 9,582 | 9,403 | 10,050 | 9,224 | 8,949 | 9,525 | 8,809 | 8,862 | 7,756 | 7,097 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 6,607 | 7,451 | 6,011 | 6,734 | 5,939 | 5,940 | 5,626 | 5,880 | 3,691 | 2,090 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 886 | 1,125 | 888 | 462 | 368 | 330 | 428 | 319 | 399 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 706,987 | 688,091 | 689,605 | 656,347 | 589,755 | 561,894 | 539,645 | 500,622 | 483,948 | 485,353 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 210,062 | 214,551 | 182,978 | 174,666 | 162,494 | 154,108 | 167,641 | 161,102 | 156,979 | 150,308 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 134,050 | 125,655 | 143,488 | 135,774 | 128,705 | 125,653 | 148,337 | 124,550 | 116,879 | 124,425 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 344,705 | 327,963 | 342,498 | 324,898 | 277,111 | 259,437 | 181,743 | 172,432 | 170,706 | 170,060 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 18,170 | 19,139 | 20,221 | 20,696 | 20,689 | 21,725 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 783 | 420 | 313 | 756 | 971 | 41,924 | 42,538 | 39,384 | 40,560 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,757 | 1,726 | 2,346 | 1,471 | 1,203 | 1,485 | 1,199 | 1,674 | 2,218 | 3,158 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 28,005 | 25,532 | 26,341 | 25,940 | 28,062 | 28,226 | 26,302 | 25,253 | 28,606 | 32,063 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 1,841 | 1,339 | 1,792 | 2,369 | 5,260 | 4,803 | 4,067 | 2,762 | 4,353 | 5,698 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 12,984 | 10,773 | 12,084 | 11,850 | 10,424 | 10,408 | 10,073 | 10,615 | 11,987 | 11,966 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 13,180 | 13,128 | 11,707 | 10,474 | 11,739 | 12,321 | 11,733 | 11,563 | 11,892 | 13,687 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 292 | 758 | 1,247 | 639 | 694 | 429 | 313 | 374 | 712 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 12,597 | 10,922 | 10,208 | 9,863 | 8,082 | 6,403 | 5,051 | 6,626 | 6,422 | 6,522 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 16,015 | 13,552 | 13,849 | 14,692 | 13,491 | 14,722 | 16,428 | 12,981 | 13,818 | 18,075 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 1,223 | 1,454 | 1,155 | 981 | 1,183 | 1,382 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 5,876 | 5,001 | 4,788 | 5,926 | 5,110 | 6,265 | 4,726 | 3,808 | 4,995 | 6,299 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 2,874 | 1,815 | 1,478 | 1,918 | 1,381 | 760 | 339 | 177 | 97 | 205 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 232 | 80 | 114 | 64 | 95 | 634 | 2,943 | 2,153 | 2,175 | 4,348 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 5,810 | 5,202 | 6,314 | 5,803 | 5,722 | 5,681 | 8,420 | 6,843 | 6,551 | 7,223 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 12 | 42 | 69 | 108 | 94 | 398 | 405 | 318 | 892 | 911 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 122,704 | 119,066 | 107,598 | 93,580 | 97,826 | 94,548 | 87,307 | 85,271 | 88,911 | 87,878 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 4,274 | 9,587 | 5,863 | 5,040 | 12,820 | 4,857 | 4,632 | 3,739 | 8,993 | 10,082 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 22,294 | 23,017 | 25,506 | 22,484 | 15,741 | 18,089 | 17,082 | 15,912 | 12,862 | 12,137 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 5,391 | 5,453 | 5,549 | 3,477 | 4,546 | 5,176 | 5,275 | 5,598 | 5,083 | 4,993 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 23,164 | 2,316 | 2,214 | 2,888 | 3,100 | 3,518 | 2,721 | 3,429 | 7,489 | 14,014 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 35,639 | 28,069 | 23,844 | 18,342 | 20,165 | 19,715 | 14,798 | 14,950 | 16,521 | 16,286 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 2,517 | 1,949 | 1,873 | 1,337 | 2,339 | 2,350 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 15,151 | 7,119 | 10,885 | 10,709 | 9,130 | 11,964 | 11,405 | 10,355 | 5,512 | 6,181 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 12,698 | 15,764 | 9,588 | 9,443 | 10,762 | 10,710 | 10,422 | 10,908 | 11,001 | 10,009 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 1,576 | 25,792 | 22,276 | 19,860 | 19,223 | 18,169 | 20,972 | 20,380 | 21,450 | 14,176 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 40,461 | 52,546 | 47,868 | 33,731 | 34,949 | 49,349 | 39,772 | 56,185 | 52,561 | 46,997 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 3,489 | 4,848 | 3,605 | 4,103 | 2,882 | 3,957 | 4,004 | 2,436 | 3,376 | 2,172 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 3,384 | 3,419 | 2,858 | 1,116 | 2,123 | 1,947 | 1,592 | 1,706 | 1,805 | 2,129 | ||||||||||
Education | 19,998 | 18,990 | 19,063 | 12,870 | 10,852 | 7,718 | 7,160 | 7,539 | 10,298 | 9,350 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 4,203 | 6,181 | 3,476 | 4,056 | 2,695 | 2,238 | 2,757 | 1,891 | 1,926 | 950 | ||||||||||
Law | 142 | 121 | 336 | 611 | 589 | 814 | 875 | 847 | 215 | 208 | ||||||||||
Social work | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 74 | 80 | 0 | 177 | 29 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 1,832 | 1,366 | 1,431 | 1,168 | 3,513 | 3,538 | 1,395 | 1,718 | 1,184 | 755 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 7,411 | 17,613 | 17,094 | 9,806 | 12,292 | 29,063 | 21,909 | 40,048 | 33,580 | 31,404 |
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 | 959,965 | 423,154 | 161,448 | 266,197 | 31,394 | 46,582 | 31,190 | |||||||
Science | 796,800 | 332,241 | 140,172 | 226,827 | 26,441 | 43,258 | 27,861 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 15,238 | 8,849 | 523 | 4,664 | 288 | 95 | 819 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 16,189 | 8,334 | 3,853 | 3,796 | 30 | 156 | 20 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 9,582 | 6,235 | 430 | 2,743 | 30 | 131 | 13 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 6,607 | 2,099 | 3,423 | 1,053 | 0 | 25 | 7 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 706,987 | 281,503 | 129,375 | 204,060 | 25,011 | 41,129 | 25,909 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 210,062 | 52,672 | 72,076 | 60,108 | 3,523 | 11,476 | 10,207 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 134,050 | 66,696 | 23,910 | 31,898 | 2,248 | 7,720 | 1,578 | |||||||
Health sciences | 344,705 | 156,907 | 26,542 | 106,896 | 19,220 | 21,337 | 13,803 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 18,170 | 5,228 | 6,847 | 5,158 | 20 | 596 | 321 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,757 | 1,013 | 171 | 505 | 0 | 68 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 28,005 | 17,471 | 1,759 | 6,868 | 912 | 427 | 568 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 1,841 | 681 | 100 | 668 | 228 | 13 | 151 | |||||||
Chemistry | 12,984 | 7,415 | 578 | 3,992 | 504 | 167 | 328 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 13,180 | 9,375 | 1,081 | 2,208 | 180 | 247 | 89 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 12,597 | 9,487 | 745 | 1,792 | 194 | 286 | 93 | |||||||
Social sciences | 16,015 | 5,584 | 3,738 | 5,138 | 6 | 1,097 | 452 | |||||||
Anthropology | 1,223 | 581 | 30 | 489 | 0 | 62 | 61 | |||||||
Economics | 5,876 | 1,039 | 2,342 | 2,242 | 4 | 213 | 36 | |||||||
Political science and government | 2,874 | 1,063 | 292 | 758 | 0 | 761 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 232 | 22 | 2 | 201 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 5,810 | 2,879 | 1,072 | 1,448 | 2 | 61 | 348 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 12 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 122,704 | 72,191 | 16,444 | 24,813 | 4,911 | 1,689 | 2,656 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 4,274 | 3,048 | 299 | 554 | 350 | 0 | 23 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 22,294 | 11,605 | 4,749 | 4,797 | 299 | 683 | 161 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 5,391 | 2,970 | 186 | 1,735 | 251 | 241 | 8 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 23,164 | 11,861 | 3,152 | 5,772 | 363 | 447 | 1,569 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 35,639 | 23,639 | 5,146 | 4,174 | 1,884 | 271 | 525 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 2,517 | 1,029 | 556 | 867 | 53 | 0 | 12 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 15,151 | 10,809 | 1,058 | 1,962 | 1,240 | 0 | 82 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 12,698 | 6,951 | 467 | 4,521 | 461 | 47 | 251 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 1,576 | 279 | 831 | 431 | 10 | 0 | 25 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 40,461 | 18,722 | 4,832 | 14,557 | 42 | 1,635 | 673 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 3,489 | 2,847 | 0 | 117 | 36 | 471 | 18 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 3,384 | 769 | 71 | 2,386 | 0 | 149 | 9 | |||||||
Education | 19,998 | 12,327 | 1,123 | 5,505 | 0 | 762 | 281 | |||||||
Humanities | 4,203 | 135 | 1,910 | 2,057 | 0 | 99 | 2 | |||||||
Law | 142 | 90 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 1,832 | 517 | 742 | 489 | 0 | 30 | 54 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 7,411 | 2,037 | 986 | 3,954 | 6 | 121 | 307 |
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 | 423,154 | 397,202 | 387,906 | 355,517 | 327,288 | 307,140 | 287,230 | 289,327 | 296,199 | 305,067 | ||||||||||
DOD | 39,140 | 33,813 | 30,329 | 24,458 | 26,461 | 27,814 | 22,216 | 26,065 | 25,332 | 19,030 | ||||||||||
DOE | 16,708 | 16,627 | 15,780 | 12,426 | 11,692 | 13,199 | 14,107 | 13,220 | 13,326 | 11,172 | ||||||||||
HHS | 230,824 | 211,978 | 213,038 | 205,657 | 182,400 | 161,207 | 154,563 | 154,790 | 156,045 | 162,217 | ||||||||||
NASA | 8,687 | 7,064 | 5,810 | 4,828 | 5,316 | 5,078 | 5,251 | 4,143 | 3,666 | 4,075 | ||||||||||
NSF | 49,024 | 48,114 | 49,165 | 48,675 | 46,571 | 44,700 | 40,130 | 41,105 | 40,758 | 37,998 | ||||||||||
USDA | 41,970 | 43,720 | 40,427 | 35,355 | 33,370 | 33,270 | 27,545 | 27,164 | 28,281 | 29,406 | ||||||||||
Other | 36,801 | 35,886 | 33,357 | 24,118 | 21,478 | 21,872 | 23,418 | 22,840 | 28,791 | 41,169 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Year | All personnel | Principal investigators | Other personnel | Postdocs | |||
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2021 | . | . | . | . | |||
2020 | . | . | . | . | |||
2019 | 10,316 | 1,706 | i | 8,610 | i | . | |
2018 | 9,569 | 1,600 | i | 7,969 | i | . | |
2017 | 9,372 | 1,597 | i | 7,775 | i | . | |
2016 | 9,744 | 1,735 | i | 8,009 | i | . | |
2015 | 9,192 | 1,633 | i | 7,559 | i | 634 | i |
i=imputed
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 |
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All research space | 4,901 | 4,253 | 4,187 | 4,156 | 3,110 |
Agricultural sciences | 2,598 | 2,140 | 2,129 | 2,108 | 1,039 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 77 | 557 | 551 | 542 | 356 |
Computer and information sciences | 3 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 0 |
Engineering | 436 | 525 | 516 | 522 | 514 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 28 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 25 |
Health sciences | 863 | 510 | 479 | 466 | 871 |
Mathematics and statistics | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 11 |
Natural resources and conservation | 159 | 160 | 154 | 152 | . |
Physical sciences | 240 | 214 | 214 | 219 | 225 |
Psychology | 29 | 46 | 46 | 45 | 33 |
Social sciences | 68 | 38 | 37 | 40 | 37 |
Other | 389 | 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 |
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All research space | 12,850 | 31,729 | 30,300 | 23,720 | 25,429 |
Agricultural sciences | . | 3,343 | 30,300 | 2,153 | . |
Engineering | . | 28,386 | . | 21,567 | . |
Physical sciences | . | . | . | . | 25,429 |
Other | 12,850 | . | . | . | . |
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 | 16,103 | 14,222 | 4,796 | 12,640 | 67,659 |
Agricultural sciences | 943 | 6,664 | 1,795 | 0 | 300 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3,239 | 1,100 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 3,334 | 288 | 1,717 | 0 | 1,898 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health sciences | 9,015 | 5,780 | 502 | 6,450 | 5,361 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 1,039 | 782 | 2,951 | 59,000 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other | 2,810 | 452 | 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.