U. Kentucky

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 | |
2023 | 62 | 86.8 | 459 | 90 | 87 | 679 | 20 | 96.9 | 602 | 63 | 93.3 | 914 |
2022 | 63 | 86.5 | 457 | 84 | 87.9 | 680 | 61 | 93.4 | 900 | |||
2021 | 51 | 88.9 | 447 | 81 | 88.5 | 691 | 13 | 98 | 583 | 64 | 93.1 | 908 |
2020 | 52 | 88.8 | 450 | 69 | 90.3 | 698 | 63 | 93.3 | 916 | |||
2019 | 57 | 87.6 | 447 | 72 | 89.9 | 697 | 14 | 97.8 | 589 | 63 | 93.3 | 914 |
2018 | 66 | 84.9 | 428 | 75 | 89.5 | 700 | 62 | 93.4 | 911 | |||
2017 | 64 | 85.3 | 425 | 71 | 89.8 | 684 | 14 | 97.8 | 575 | 62 | 93.3 | 898 |
2016 | 62 | 85.9 | 430 | 66 | 90.8 | 697 | 64 | 93 | 896 | |||
2015 | 66 | 84.9 | 426 | 68 | 90.4 | 693 | 16 | 97.4 | 570 | 67 | 92.7 | 898 |
2014 | 54 | 87.5 | 422 | 59 | 91.6 | 688 | 68 | 92.5 | 889 |
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 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
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All fields | 312 | 305 | 324 | 332 | 322 | 285 | 305 | 299 | 288 | 319 |
Science and engineering | 232 | 230 | 224 | 241 | 251 | 223 | 205 | 216 | 214 | 241 |
Agricultural sciences and natural resources | 13 | 16 | 15 | 21 | 21 | 25 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 23 |
Agricultural sciences | 12 | 16 | 14 | 21 | 21 | 24 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 23 |
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 57 | 48 | 43 | 40 | 42 | 48 | 49 | 48 | 45 | 54 |
Biochemistry and biophysics | 7 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 8 |
Biology and biomedical sciences, general | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | . | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
Bioinformatics, biostatistics, and computational biology | . | 3 | . | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | . | 2 | 1 |
Cellular and developmental biology, and anatomy | 2 | 1 | 4 | . | . | 1 | . | 4 | 4 | 1 |
Ecology, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology | 8 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Genetics and genomics | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | 3 | 1 | . | . | . |
Microbiology and immunology | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
Molecular biology | 2 | 2 | 2 | . | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Neurobiology and neurosciences | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 11 |
Pharmacology and toxicology | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Physiology, pathology, and cancer biology | 7 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
Biology and biomedical sciences, other | 16 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 10 |
Computer and information sciences | 14 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 9 |
Computer science | 10 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
Computer and information sciences, other | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 1 | 1 | . |
Engineering | 40 | 35 | 42 | 43 | 50 | 33 | 27 | 43 | 47 | 37 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 6 |
Chemical and petroleum engineering | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 |
Civil, environmental, and transportation engineering | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
Electrical and computer engineering | 10 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 6 |
Industrial engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | 1 | . |
Materials and mining engineering | 5 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
Mechanical engineering | 7 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
Engineering, other | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 7 |
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Geological sciences | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Ocean, marine, and atmospheric sciences | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | . | . |
Health sciences | 27 | 28 | 34 | 41 | 28 | 32 | 28 | 23 | 25 | 28 |
Nursing science | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 |
Pharmaceutical sciences | 13 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
Public health | . | 2 | . | 1 | 3 | . | 2 | . | 2 | . |
Health sciences, other | 11 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 13 |
Mathematics and statistics | 11 | 16 | 14 | 19 | 15 | 12 | 21 | 13 | 12 | 13 |
Applied mathematics | 2 | . | 1 | . | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | . |
Mathematics | . | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 10 |
Statistics | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | . | 3 |
Mathematics and statistics, other | 7 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 3 | . |
Physical sciences | 31 | 24 | 24 | 13 | 22 | 26 | 18 | 13 | 15 | 24 |
Astronomy and astrophysics | 7 | 3 | 3 | . | 3 | . | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Chemistry | 14 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 16 |
Physics | 10 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 |
Psychology | 13 | 19 | 15 | 21 | 27 | 20 | 15 | 22 | 21 | 21 |
Clinical psychology | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
Counseling and applied psychology | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 5 |
Research and experimental psychology | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 9 |
Psychology, other | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Social sciences | 24 | 32 | 29 | 28 | 34 | 25 | 23 | 29 | 25 | 30 |
Anthropology | 1 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Economics | 4 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
Political science and government | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
Public policy analysis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
Social sciences, other | 9 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 12 |
Non-science and engineering | 80 | 75 | 100 | 91 | 71 | 62 | 100 | 83 | 74 | 78 |
Business | 9 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 7 |
Business | 9 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 7 |
Education | 41 | 33 | 50 | 31 | 34 | 21 | 56 | 31 | 33 | 26 |
Education leadership and administration | 11 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 |
Education research | 21 | 11 | 29 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 32 | 13 | 25 | 20 |
Teacher education and teaching fields | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
Education, other | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | . | 1 | 5 | . | 1 |
Humanities and arts | 22 | 20 | 27 | 39 | 14 | 22 | 24 | 38 | 17 | 31 |
Letters | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 8 |
Foreign languages and literature | 8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 7 |
History | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | . | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 12 |
Philosophy and religious studies | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
Music and performing arts | 3 | 9 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Humanities and arts, other | . | . | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | . | 5 | . | . |
Other non-science and engineering | 8 | 17 | 20 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 14 |
Communication | 5 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 10 |
Public administration and social services | 3 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Non-science and engineering, other | . | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | . | . | 1 | 2 | 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 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
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Male | 921 | 934 | 964 | 980 | 1,027 | 1,029 | 1,051 | 1,145 | 1,125 | 1,183 | ||||||||||
Female | 997 | 984 | 989 | 999 | 989 | 945 | 942 | 1,025 | 1,037 | 1,118 | ||||||||||
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 1,327 | 1,355 | 1,381 | 1,442 | 1,403 | 1,348 | 1,373 | 1,485 | 1,464 | 1,529 | ||||||||||
Hispanic or Latino | 83 | 75 | 75 | 82 | 81 | 64 | 59 | 56 | 59 | 58 | ||||||||||
Not Hispanic or Latino | 1,182 | 1,193 | 1,214 | 1,255 | 1,221 | 1,194 | 1,224 | 1,334 | 1,287 | 1,365 | ||||||||||
American Indian or Alaska Native | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 4 | ||||||||||
Asian | 53 | 62 | 50 | 59 | 67 | 63 | 46 | 49 | 57 | 64 | ||||||||||
Black or African American | 102 | 96 | 95 | 97 | 74 | 62 | 73 | 68 | 73 | 75 | ||||||||||
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
White | 979 | 993 | 1,030 | 1,058 | 1,040 | 1,034 | 1,068 | 1,180 | 1,125 | 1,195 | ||||||||||
More than one race | 45 | 39 | 38 | 40 | 36 | 31 | 30 | 29 | 27 | 27 | ||||||||||
Unknown ethnicity and race | 62 | 87 | 92 | 105 | 101 | 90 | 90 | 95 | 118 | 106 | ||||||||||
Temporary visa holders | 591 | 563 | 572 | 537 | 613 | 626 | 620 | 685 | 698 | 772 | ||||||||||
Science and engineering | 1,608 | 1,624 | 1,660 | 1,679 | 1,683 | 1,645 | 1,597 | 1,778 | 1,837 | 1,954 | ||||||||||
Science | 1,281 | 1,314 | 1,325 | 1,365 | 1,361 | 1,320 | 1,281 | 1,403 | 1,470 | 1,555 | ||||||||||
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 76 | 88 | 90 | 89 | 79 | 91 | 99 | 90 | 113 | 108 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 352 | 351 | 346 | 352 | 354 | 327 | 284 | 368 | 316 | 331 | ||||||||||
Neurobiology and neuroscience | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 42 | 47 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 54 | 58 | 64 | 70 | 78 | 79 | 76 | 76 | 73 | 83 | ||||||||||
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 35 | 56 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 24 | 33 | 29 | 26 | 32 | 35 | 31 | 39 | 35 | 42 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 150 | 144 | 145 | 167 | 170 | 120 | 113 | 116 | 121 | 127 | ||||||||||
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 11 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 11 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 20 | 24 | 19 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 178 | 193 | 206 | 182 | 194 | 184 | 176 | 186 | 166 | 150 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 196 | 193 | 181 | 188 | 150 | 152 | 155 | 41 | 159 | 180 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 220 | 218 | 229 | 265 | 284 | 304 | 317 | 396 | 397 | 420 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 327 | 310 | 335 | 314 | 322 | 325 | 316 | 375 | 367 | 399 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 29 | 35 | 32 | 28 | 22 | 24 | 20 | 27 | 33 | 46 | ||||||||||
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 37 | 32 | 30 | 30 | 33 | 44 | 43 | 34 | 39 | 60 | ||||||||||
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 49 | 38 | 42 | 42 | 48 | 55 | 50 | 58 | 58 | 50 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 57 | 49 | 54 | 50 | 51 | 53 | 55 | 54 | 53 | 70 | ||||||||||
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 78 | 87 | 94 | 90 | 90 | 77 | 77 | 89 | 79 | 75 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 42 | 43 | 49 | 45 | 36 | 42 | 45 | 21 | 29 | 27 | ||||||||||
Other engineering | 23 | 23 | 28 | 22 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 86 | 73 | 71 | ||||||||||
Health | 310 | 294 | 293 | 300 | 333 | 329 | 396 | 392 | 325 | 347 | ||||||||||
Clinical medicine | 74 | 74 | 63 | 76 | 68 | 56 | 75 | 74 | 100 | 106 | ||||||||||
Other health | 236 | 220 | 230 | 224 | 265 | 273 | 321 | 318 | 225 | 241 |
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 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
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Male | 133 | 142 | 170 | 153 | 136 | 143 | 141 | 181 | 114 | 130 | ||||||||||
Female | 128 | 159 | 154 | 117 | 115 | 118 | 106 | 135 | 98 | 108 | ||||||||||
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 252 | 286 | 303 | 259 | 241 | 243 | 231 | 293 | 183 | 213 | ||||||||||
Hispanic or Latino | 9 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||||
Not Hispanic or Latino | 226 | 260 | 274 | 231 | 228 | 219 | 209 | 258 | 165 | 194 | ||||||||||
American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Asian | 15 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 10 | 11 | ||||||||||
Black or African American | 8 | 17 | 20 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 9 | ||||||||||
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
White | 196 | 215 | 221 | 192 | 194 | 190 | 185 | 225 | 146 | 169 | ||||||||||
More than one race | 6 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||
Unknown ethnicity and race | 17 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 9 | 16 | 12 | 29 | 13 | 11 | ||||||||||
Temporary visa holders | 9 | 15 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 18 | 16 | 23 | 29 | 25 | ||||||||||
Science and engineering | 191 | 216 | 226 | 199 | 187 | 195 | 166 | 230 | 160 | 202 | ||||||||||
Science | 152 | 178 | 189 | 155 | 145 | 147 | 106 | 174 | 114 | 143 | ||||||||||
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 16 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 20 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 37 | 42 | 37 | 36 | 30 | 29 | 21 | 28 | 21 | 34 | ||||||||||
Neurobiology and neuroscience | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 15 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 11 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 18 | 13 | ||||||||||
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 11 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 14 | 34 | 48 | 30 | 34 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 21 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 12 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 27 | 37 | 48 | 46 | 36 | 44 | 25 | 60 | 30 | 31 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 39 | 38 | 37 | 44 | 42 | 48 | 60 | 56 | 46 | 59 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 8 | ||||||||||
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 11 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 7 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 16 | ||||||||||
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 13 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 15 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
Other engineering | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||
Health | 70 | 85 | 98 | 71 | 64 | 66 | 81 | 86 | 52 | 36 | ||||||||||
Clinical medicine | 50 | 56 | 56 | 31 | 25 | 31 | 39 | 26 | 25 | 33 | ||||||||||
Other health | 20 | 29 | 42 | 40 | 39 | 35 | 42 | 60 | 27 | 3 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Field | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | |||||||||||
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All surveyed fields | 446 | 441 | 499 | 432 | 408 | 356 | 275 | 172 | 208 | 313 | 0 | |||||||||||
Science and engineering | 389 | 396 | 443 | 391 | 361 | 314 | 245 | 151 | 188 | 281 | 0 | |||||||||||
Science | 260 | 286 | 302 | 285 | 260 | 236 | 185 | 121 | 148 | 203 | 0 | |||||||||||
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 19 | 30 | 23 | 31 | 28 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 148 | 139 | 138 | 125 | 118 | 99 | 59 | 67 | 67 | 101 | 0 | |||||||||||
Neurobiology and neuroscience | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 8 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 11 | 21 | 23 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||||
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 3 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 3 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
Physical sciences | 32 | 39 | 46 | 45 | 42 | 37 | 36 | 33 | 29 | 34 | 0 | |||||||||||
Psychology | 34 | 42 | 42 | 40 | 33 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 16 | 29 | 0 | |||||||||||
Social sciences | 11 | 11 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 23 | 24 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||
Engineering | 129 | 110 | 141 | 106 | 101 | 78 | 60 | 30 | 40 | 78 | 0 | |||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 16 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||||
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 10 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 22 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 28 | 0 | |||||||||||
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 21 | 18 | 21 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||||
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 37 | 27 | 36 | 34 | 24 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 0 | |||||||||||
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 23 | 19 | 27 | 21 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 0 | |||||||||||
Other engineering | 15 | 18 | 21 | 14 | 25 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | |||||||||||
Health | 57 | 45 | 56 | 41 | 47 | 42 | 30 | 21 | 20 | 32 | 0 | |||||||||||
Clinical medicine | 14 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||
Other health | 43 | 44 | 50 | 40 | 38 | 40 | 26 | 18 | 20 | 29 | 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).
2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | |||||||||||
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All types and sources of support | 1,918 | 1,918 | 1,953 | 1,979 | 2,016 | 1,974 | 1,993 | 2,170 | 2,162 | 2,301 | ||||||||||
Fellowships | 134 | 153 | 174 | 166 | 156 | 156 | 117 | 135 | 161 | 178 | ||||||||||
Federal | 72 | 81 | 102 | 91 | 76 | 54 | 36 | 40 | 41 | 49 | ||||||||||
Institutional | 62 | 69 | 70 | 72 | 74 | 100 | 74 | 93 | 117 | 118 | ||||||||||
Nonfederal | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 11 | ||||||||||
Research assistantships | 677 | 663 | 691 | 676 | 709 | 647 | 712 | 557 | 616 | 658 | ||||||||||
Federal | 324 | 330 | 348 | 315 | 303 | 285 | 224 | 122 | 167 | 261 | ||||||||||
Institutional | 279 | 255 | 273 | 274 | 332 | 275 | 395 | 435 | 445 | 306 | ||||||||||
Nonfederal | 74 | 78 | 70 | 87 | 74 | 87 | 93 | 0 | 4 | 91 | ||||||||||
Teaching assistantships | 522 | 520 | 514 | 509 | 564 | 522 | 516 | 545 | 663 | 583 | ||||||||||
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
Institutional | 522 | 520 | 514 | 509 | 561 | 522 | 516 | 544 | 663 | 579 | ||||||||||
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
Other types of support | 585 | 582 | 574 | 628 | 587 | 649 | 648 | 933 | 722 | 882 | ||||||||||
Federal | 50 | 30 | 49 | 26 | 28 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Institutional | 129 | 153 | 120 | 138 | 126 | 149 | 118 | 452 | 36 | 29 | ||||||||||
Nonfederal | 24 | 14 | 17 | 23 | 27 | 36 | 38 | 38 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
Personal resources | 382 | 385 | 388 | 441 | 406 | 447 | 477 | 434 | 686 | 849 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
All races | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
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Science and engineering | 204 | 198 | 225 | 221 | 189 | 228 | 163 | 161 | 132 | 99 | ||||||||||
Science | 185 | 177 | 195 | 198 | 177 | 211 | 148 | 141 | 118 | 90 | ||||||||||
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 24 | 23 | 23 | 28 | 15 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 15 | 18 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 122 | 110 | 128 | 132 | 122 | 141 | 106 | 88 | 51 | 34 | ||||||||||
Neurobiology and neuroscience | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 11 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 5 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 19 | 21 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 31 | 23 | 27 | 33 | 19 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 9 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 19 | 21 | 30 | 23 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 14 | 9 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 5 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Other engineering | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Health | 25 | 21 | 22 | 29 | 31 | 33 | 21 | 72 | 89 | 56 | ||||||||||
Clinical medicine | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 48 | 24 | ||||||||||
Other health | 17 | 20 | 20 | 26 | 31 | 33 | 21 | 22 | 41 | 32 |
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 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 119 | 122 | 152 | 141 | 124 | 144 | 113 | 114 | 1 | 71 | ||||||||||
Science and engineering | 108 | 112 | 137 | 125 | 106 | 129 | 102 | 98 | 1 | 46 | ||||||||||
Science | 98 | 102 | 118 | 115 | 101 | 122 | 96 | 85 | 1 | 41 | ||||||||||
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 11 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 72 | 74 | 85 | 88 | 77 | 94 | 73 | 54 | 0 | 17 | ||||||||||
Neurobiology and neuroscience | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Communication | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 11 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 14 | 19 | 15 | 19 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 10 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Other engineering | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Health | 11 | 10 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 25 | ||||||||||
Clinical medicine | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ||||||||||
Other health | 7 | 10 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 16 |
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 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All R&D fields | 504,005 | 476,517 | 429,241 | 417,674 | 410,581 | 393,034 | 378,374 | 349,661 | 331,705 | 328,239 | ||||||||||
Science | 426,510 | 402,070 | 366,439 | 359,155 | 347,641 | 335,152 | 322,518 | 289,529 | 276,606 | 277,311 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 5,019 | 5,913 | 4,011 | 4,054 | 3,165 | 3,138 | 2,997 | 2,890 | 2,149 | 3,085 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 3,438 | 2,948 | 3,356 | 2,966 | 2,331 | 2,385 | 2,608 | 2,672 | 2,332 | 3,052 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 3,438 | 2,948 | 3,356 | 2,966 | 2,331 | 2,385 | 2,608 | 2,672 | 2,332 | 3,052 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 381,193 | 352,400 | 323,030 | 322,077 | 314,547 | 294,776 | 275,761 | 250,625 | 232,829 | 231,222 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 66,265 | 61,281 | 63,522 | 69,756 | 62,898 | 68,360 | 62,780 | 62,745 | 59,511 | 52,445 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 216,881 | 204,821 | 181,729 | 175,026 | 178,030 | 161,764 | 142,104 | 133,389 | 56,694 | 60,047 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 98,047 | 86,296 | 77,779 | 77,295 | 73,619 | 64,652 | 70,791 | 54,379 | 109,868 | 112,965 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences nec | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 112 | 6,756 | 5,765 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,448 | 1,582 | 1,512 | 1,336 | 1,685 | 809 | 903 | 828 | 1,096 | 1,819 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 8,370 | 9,118 | 8,722 | 8,553 | 8,173 | 7,069 | 7,525 | 8,254 | 7,163 | 9,010 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 4,968 | 5,609 | 5,598 | 4,802 | 5,236 | 4,703 | 4,092 | 3,934 | 3,562 | 5,040 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 3,402 | 3,509 | 3,124 | 3,751 | 2,937 | 2,366 | 3,433 | 4,320 | 3,601 | 3,970 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 6,526 | 5,066 | 4,185 | 3,537 | 4,047 | 4,110 | 4,542 | 5,017 | 10,568 | 10,797 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 6,340 | 5,072 | 4,075 | 3,696 | 765 | 1,659 | 1,348 | 1,556 | 8,205 | 9,116 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 147 | 119 | 59 | 56 | 108 | 201 | 208 | 376 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 4,088 | 3,160 | 2,661 | 2,527 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4,353 | 4,065 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 82 | 256 | 168 | 92 | 82 | 413 | 125 | 59 | 1,233 | 1,158 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 1,589 | 1,151 | 636 | 559 | 92 | 263 | 279 | 265 | 1,273 | 1,632 | ||||||||||
Social sciences nec | 434 | 386 | 551 | 462 | 483 | 774 | 736 | 856 | 1,346 | 2,261 | ||||||||||
Sciences nec | 14,176 | 19,971 | 17,548 | 12,936 | 12,928 | 21,206 | 26,834 | 17,687 | 12,264 | 9,210 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 62,529 | 61,287 | 52,361 | 46,976 | 50,743 | 47,821 | 45,416 | 50,766 | 48,952 | 45,002 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 548 | 1,169 | 2,449 | 3,595 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 2,820 | 3,028 | 2,522 | 1,756 | 909 | 1,112 | 1,342 | 953 | 1,127 | 1,449 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 2,943 | 3,262 | 3,360 | 3,512 | 4,707 | 4,298 | 4,127 | 3,526 | 1,499 | 2,613 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 13,599 | 11,874 | 10,230 | 8,775 | 10,129 | 9,928 | 9,947 | 10,354 | 11,708 | 10,062 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 3,093 | 2,243 | 2,366 | 2,510 | 1,746 | 1,399 | 2,061 | 2,077 | 1,886 | 3,351 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 1,805 | 1,109 | 809 | 206 | 295 | 641 | 595 | 337 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 6,512 | 5,732 | 3,834 | 3,462 | 2,565 | 1,348 | 3,628 | 4,611 | 3,795 | 3,670 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 3,136 | 5,093 | 4,508 | 4,557 | 5,275 | 4,252 | 2,817 | 2,632 | 2,901 | 3,502 | ||||||||||
Engineering nec | 28,621 | 28,946 | 24,184 | 21,029 | 22,668 | 21,248 | 20,899 | 26,276 | 26,036 | 20,355 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 14,966 | 13,160 | 10,441 | 11,543 | 12,197 | 10,061 | 10,440 | 9,366 | 6,147 | 5,926 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 4,124 | 3,551 | 3,829 | 4,446 | 3,838 | 3,169 | 2,704 | 2,574 | 1,022 | 817 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 361 | 370 | 115 | 320 | 205 | 183 | 231 | 242 | 379 | 706 | ||||||||||
Education | 1,303 | 1,057 | 684 | 792 | 921 | 1,039 | 1,445 | 1,446 | 901 | 710 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 1,948 | 1,492 | 647 | 330 | 234 | 120 | 305 | 310 | 655 | 346 | ||||||||||
Law | 45 | 124 | 240 | 74 | 61 | 78 | 23 | 4 | 88 | 80 | ||||||||||
Social work | 1,938 | 1,854 | 749 | 1,454 | 1,197 | 1,132 | 1,226 | 360 | 1,055 | 1,520 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 930 | 697 | 578 | 602 | 638 | 556 | 542 | 642 | 661 | 460 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E nec | 4,317 | 4,015 | 3,599 | 3,525 | 5,103 | 3,784 | 3,964 | 3,788 | 1,386 | 1,287 |
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 | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All R&D fields | 504,005 | 265,543 | 34,829 | 151,066 | 11,737 | 12,511 | 28,319 | |||||||
Science | 426,510 | 223,148 | 30,313 | 127,401 | 9,376 | 11,279 | 24,993 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 5,019 | 2,202 | 0 | 2,185 | 10 | 482 | 140 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 3,438 | 1,868 | 42 | 1,406 | 72 | 41 | 9 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 3,438 | 1,868 | 42 | 1,406 | 72 | 41 | 9 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 381,193 | 201,680 | 28,964 | 106,473 | 9,279 | 10,402 | 24,395 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 66,265 | 16,117 | 18,631 | 24,521 | 757 | 1,543 | 4,696 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 216,881 | 116,212 | 7,211 | 61,545 | 8,302 | 6,102 | 17,509 | |||||||
Health sciences | 98,047 | 69,351 | 3,122 | 20,407 | 220 | 2,757 | 2,190 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,448 | 1,181 | 14 | 119 | 15 | 88 | 31 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 8,370 | 7,162 | 124 | 900 | 0 | 26 | 158 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 4,968 | 4,205 | 123 | 488 | 0 | 21 | 131 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 3,402 | 2,957 | 1 | 412 | 0 | 5 | 27 | |||||||
Physical sciences nec | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 6,526 | 5,715 | 0 | 767 | 0 | 41 | 3 | |||||||
Social sciences | 6,340 | 2,867 | 1,169 | 2,002 | 0 | 61 | 241 | |||||||
Anthropology | 147 | 36 | 0 | 95 | 0 | 8 | 8 | |||||||
Economics | 4,088 | 1,136 | 1,169 | 1,603 | 0 | 8 | 172 | |||||||
Political science and government | 82 | 58 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 1,589 | 1,448 | 0 | 107 | 0 | 34 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences nec | 434 | 189 | 0 | 173 | 0 | 11 | 61 | |||||||
Sciences nec | 14,176 | 473 | 0 | 13,549 | 0 | 138 | 16 | |||||||
Engineering | 62,529 | 37,882 | 3,786 | 16,467 | 2,327 | 948 | 1,119 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 2,820 | 2,317 | 0 | 358 | 27 | 46 | 72 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 2,943 | 2,041 | 36 | 586 | 198 | 11 | 71 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 13,599 | 7,747 | 1,887 | 3,575 | 36 | 80 | 274 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 3,093 | 2,131 | 53 | 208 | 645 | 7 | 49 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 1,805 | 1,642 | 0 | 162 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 6,512 | 5,135 | 259 | 812 | 92 | 0 | 214 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 3,136 | 1,515 | 0 | 789 | 2 | 608 | 222 | |||||||
Engineering nec | 28,621 | 15,354 | 1,551 | 9,977 | 1,327 | 196 | 216 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 14,966 | 4,513 | 730 | 7,198 | 34 | 284 | 2,207 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 4,124 | 1,040 | 437 | 1,639 | 30 | 0 | 978 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 361 | 91 | 0 | 265 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
Education | 1,303 | 585 | 2 | 701 | 0 | 3 | 12 | |||||||
Humanities | 1,948 | 0 | 0 | 1,690 | 0 | 0 | 258 | |||||||
Law | 45 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |||||||
Social work | 1,938 | 1,344 | 0 | 436 | 0 | 134 | 24 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 930 | 0 | 0 | 284 | 4 | 7 | 635 | |||||||
Non-S&E nec | 4,317 | 1,453 | 291 | 2,159 | 0 | 140 | 274 |
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 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Federal Agencies | 265,543 | 253,852 | 220,703 | 200,664 | 192,945 | 171,672 | 171,323 | 154,559 | 146,548 | 142,312 | ||||||||||
DOD | 14,714 | 11,889 | 8,186 | 7,198 | 5,902 | 5,574 | 5,547 | 3,352 | 2,615 | 4,173 | ||||||||||
DOE | 10,455 | 13,364 | 13,008 | 11,563 | 11,548 | 8,074 | 5,682 | 7,767 | 5,822 | 5,837 | ||||||||||
HHS | 191,087 | 180,292 | 158,314 | 142,692 | 135,877 | 119,953 | 117,411 | 100,626 | 99,377 | 94,049 | ||||||||||
NASA | 2,597 | 2,553 | 2,327 | 1,662 | 1,733 | 1,280 | 1,460 | 2,101 | 1,984 | 2,139 | ||||||||||
NSF | 20,442 | 19,130 | 16,540 | 15,661 | 15,733 | 14,200 | 21,216 | 15,972 | 13,093 | 11,204 | ||||||||||
USDA | 16,487 | 14,045 | 12,511 | 13,226 | 13,762 | 14,186 | 11,713 | 14,578 | 12,636 | 13,793 | ||||||||||
Other | 9,761 | 12,579 | 9,817 | 8,662 | 8,390 | 8,405 | 8,294 | 10,163 | 11,021 | 11,117 |
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 | ||||||||
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2023 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2022 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2021 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2020 | . | . | . | . | ||||
2019 | 6,179 | 1,656 | 4,523 | . | ||||
2018 | 6,106 | 1,638 | 4,468 | . | ||||
2017 | 6,042 | 1,595 | 4,447 | . |
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, medical school space, and research animal space | 2023 | 2021 | 2019 | 2017 | 2015 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 2,690 | 2,914 | 2,859 | 3,088 | 2,838 | |||||
Agricultural sciences | 866 | 1,021 | 953 | 870 | 821 | |||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 667 | 567 | 588 | 578 | 455 | |||||
Computer and information sciences | 9 | 17 | 10 | 35 | 39 | |||||
Engineering | 342 | 403 | 406 | 428 | 395 | |||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 98 | 98 | 114 | 119 | 105 | |||||
Health sciences | 524 | 631 | 626 | 815 | 801 | |||||
Mathematics and statistics | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 10 | |||||
Natural resources and conservation | 23 | 24 | 29 | 20 | 17 | |||||
Physical sciences | 115 | 96 | 73 | 136 | 125 | |||||
Psychology | 21 | 24 | 23 | 33 | 28 | |||||
Social sciences | 20 | 29 | 33 | 44 | 42 | |||||
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, medical school space, and research animal space | Planned to start in FY 2024 or FY 2025 | Started 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 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 352,600 | 10,000 | . | 1,480 | 177,800 | |||||
Agricultural sciences | 176,000 | 10,000 | . | 1,480 | 2,800 | |||||
Engineering | 26,600 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | |||||
Health sciences | 150,000 | 0 | . | 0 | 175,000 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Field, medical school space, and research animal space | Planned to start in FY 2024 or FY 2025 | Started 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 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 28,228 | 40,659 | 6,038 | 2,290 | 3,037 | |||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 1,507 | 1,411 | 545 | |||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 9,276 | 32,000 | 1,558 | 879 | 349 | |||||
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Engineering | 6,250 | 8,659 | 591 | 0 | 755 | |||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Health sciences | 5,876 | 0 | 1,881 | 0 | 1,389 | |||||
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 502 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Physical sciences | 6,826 | 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.