U. Louisiana at Lafayette
Rankings
Data year | Earned doctorates | Full-time graduate students | Total R&D expenditures | |||||||||
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Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | Rank | Percentile | Institutions ranked | |
2022 | 213 | 54 | 457 | 226 | 67.2 | 680 | 132 | 85.4 | 890 | |||
2021 | 220 | 51.4 | 447 | 223 | 68.2 | 691 | 80 | 86.6 | 583 | 135 | 85.4 | 907 |
2020 | 226 | 50.4 | 450 | 219 | 69 | 697 | 134 | 85.6 | 915 | |||
2019 | 216 | 52.3 | 447 | 212 | 69.9 | 696 | 77 | 87.2 | 589 | 143 | 84.6 | 913 |
2018 | 225 | 48.1 | 428 | 216 | 69.5 | 698 | 146 | 84.2 | 910 | |||
2017 | 222 | 48.4 | 425 | 229 | 67 | 684 | 85 | 85.5 | 575 | 153 | 83.2 | 897 |
2016 | 224 | 48.5 | 430 | 220 | 68.8 | 697 | 159 | 82.5 | 895 | |||
2015 | 233 | 46 | 426 | 217 | 69.1 | 693 | 89 | 84.7 | 570 | 160 | 82.4 | 897 |
2014 | 229 | 46.4 | 422 | 221 | 68.3 | 688 | 167 | 81.4 | 887 | |||
2013 | 215 | 49.1 | 417 | 201 | 64.3 | 555 | 100 | 83.3 | 588 | 179 | 80 | 884 |
NOTES:
- 1. See TableBuilder for the prior year data.
- 2. Blank white cells indicate data not available, not applicable, or institution not eligible for survey.
- 3. Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Data
Fields | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All fields | 49 | 42 | 40 | 45 | 41 | 44 | 43 | 36 | 39 | 42 |
Science and engineering | 37 | 31 | 29 | 31 | 25 | 34 | 32 | 19 | 21 | 32 |
Science | 26 | 20 | 18 | 21 | 19 | 24 | 24 | 13 | 17 | 26 |
Life science | 10 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 10 |
Agricultural sciences | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | 1 |
Biological sciences | 6 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
Health sciences | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | . | 1 | . | . | . | 2 | 1 | . | . | 1 |
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | . | 1 | . | . | . | 2 | 1 | . | . | 1 |
Mathematics and computer sciences | 15 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 14 |
Computer sciences | 10 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 |
Mathematics | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | . | 5 | 6 |
Psychology and social sciences | 1 | . | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 |
Psychology | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 |
Other social sciences | 1 | . | 1 | 2 | . | 2 | . | . | . | . |
Engineering | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 6 |
Biological/biomedical sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . |
Chemical engineering | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Civil engineering | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | . | . |
Electrical engineering | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
Non-science and engineering | 12 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 17 | 18 | 10 |
Education | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . |
Education administration | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Education research | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . |
Humanities | 12 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 17 | 10 |
Foreign languages & literature | 1 | . | 1 | 2 | 2 | . | . | 6 | 5 | 3 |
Letters | 10 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 7 |
Other humanities and arts | 1 | 1 | . | . | 2 | . | . | . | . | . |
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 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All full-time students | 543 | 504 | 495 | 514 | 514 | 451 | 565 | 554 | 499 | 581 |
Male | 307 | 287 | 272 | 292 | 290 | 258 | 334 | 338 | 345 | 345 |
Female | 236 | 217 | 223 | 222 | 224 | 193 | 231 | 216 | 154 | 236 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 306 | 326 | 333 | 324 | 342 | 276 | 315 | 299 | 219 | 298 |
Hispanic or Latino | 19 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 13 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 282 | 294 | 293 | 283 | 291 | 264 | 293 | 282 | 206 | 280 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Asian | 39 | 40 | 36 | 28 | 29 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 6 |
Black or African American | 43 | 39 | 23 | 16 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 28 | 25 | 16 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
White | 187 | 202 | 225 | 233 | 236 | 216 | 247 | 238 | 165 | 256 |
More than one race | 12 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 5 | 13 | 25 | 30 | 39 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 5 |
Temporary visa holders | 237 | 178 | 162 | 190 | 172 | 175 | 250 | 255 | 280 | 283 |
Science and engineering | 485 | 440 | 422 | 434 | 431 | 370 | 481 | 473 | 484 | 482 |
Science | 361 | 304 | 293 | 302 | 301 | 239 | 290 | 313 | 340 | 320 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 77 | 66 | 67 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 69 | 75 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 24 |
Computer and information sciences | 117 | 81 | 82 | 88 | 94 | 38 | 89 | 111 | 155 | 122 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 46 | 43 | 37 | 35 | 31 | 47 | 55 | 54 | 39 | 33 |
Mathematics and statistics | 52 | 50 | 48 | 42 | 41 | 34 | 31 | 32 | 34 | 32 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 8 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 8 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 28 | 25 | 25 | 32 | 29 | 22 | 28 | 31 | 28 | 26 |
Physical sciences | 14 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 8 |
Social sciences | 19 | 24 | 20 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
Engineering | 124 | 136 | 129 | 132 | 130 | 131 | 191 | 160 | 144 | 162 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 79 | 76 | 56 | 68 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 21 | 12 | 16 | 25 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 15 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 24 | 30 | 22 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 53 | 59 | 60 | 56 | 59 | 47 | 5 | 5 | 2 | . |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 26 | 15 | 12 | 23 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 56 | 64 | 54 | 59 | 52 | 64 | 37 | 28 | 28 | 24 |
Health | 58 | 64 | 73 | 80 | 83 | 81 | 84 | 81 | 15 | 99 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | 58 | 64 | 73 | 80 | 83 | 81 | 84 | 81 | 15 | 99 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All part-time students | 96 | 106 | 78 | 110 | 112 | 100 | 99 | 136 | 124 | 142 |
Male | 52 | 56 | 41 | 57 | 69 | 56 | 66 | 92 | 75 | 83 |
Female | 44 | 50 | 37 | 53 | 43 | 44 | 33 | 44 | 49 | 59 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 85 | 86 | 69 | 103 | 99 | 82 | 86 | 109 | 100 | 129 |
Hispanic or Latino | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 77 | 77 | 57 | 88 | 87 | 77 | 69 | 105 | 96 | 120 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Asian | 6 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 |
Black or African American | 9 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 8 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 59 | 58 | 48 | 71 | 73 | 62 | 56 | 90 | 78 | 103 |
More than one race | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
Temporary visa holders | 11 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 13 | 27 | 24 | 13 |
Science and engineering | 89 | 99 | 71 | 101 | 104 | 89 | 90 | 127 | 113 | 128 |
Science | 59 | 69 | 48 | 74 | 78 | 67 | 67 | 94 | 91 | 109 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 5 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 3 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 20 |
Computer and information sciences | 29 | 31 | 17 | 27 | 26 | 5 | 22 | 33 | 26 | 23 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 9 | 11 | 9 | 20 | 28 | 36 | 28 | 34 | 30 | 31 |
Mathematics and statistics | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 8 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 25 | 28 |
Physical sciences | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Social sciences | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Engineering | 30 | 30 | 23 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 23 | 33 | 22 | 19 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 8 | 9 | 11 | 6 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 12 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 6 | . |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 8 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
Health | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 14 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 14 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All surveyed fields | 110 | 86 | 55 | 53 | 65 | 16 | 25 | 26 | 29 | 43 |
Science and engineering | 110 | 85 | 55 | 52 | 64 | 16 | 25 | 26 | 29 | 42 |
Science | 70 | 40 | 24 | 30 | 38 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 21 | 25 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 20 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 29 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 15 | 20 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 15 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mathematics and statistics | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Psychology | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 40 | 45 | 31 | 22 | 26 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 17 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 17 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 18 | 21 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Health | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Type and primary source of support | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All types and sources of support | 543 | 504 | 495 | 514 | 514 | 451 | 565 | 554 | 499 | 581 |
Fellowships | 10 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 24 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 34 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Institutional | 10 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 27 | 25 | 28 | 33 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Research assistantships | 148 | 81 | 5 | 20 | 72 | 79 | 89 | 95 | 103 | 141 |
Federal | 110 | 79 | 1 | 10 | 42 | 4 | 24 | 23 | 28 | 41 |
Institutional | 24 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 20 | 74 | 51 | 61 | 67 | 97 |
Nonfederal | 14 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 3 |
Teaching assistantships | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 215 | 185 | 150 | 150 | 171 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 203 | 185 | 150 | 150 | 171 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other types of support | 385 | 411 | 479 | 481 | 424 | 133 | 260 | 278 | 216 | 235 |
Federal | 0 | 7 | 54 | 43 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Institutional | 3 | 26 | 6 | 21 | 8 | 14 | 51 | 40 | 20 | 24 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Personal resources | 382 | 375 | 414 | 411 | 387 | 113 | 209 | 236 | 196 | 209 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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Science and engineering | 44 | 45 | 43 | 39 | 32 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 9 |
Science | 30 | 40 | 39 | 36 | 32 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 8 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | 7 | 7 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 19 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 6 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Engineering | 14 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | . | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . |
Mechanical engineering | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 9 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 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 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All surveyed fields | 34 | 35 | 33 | 29 | 20 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
Science and engineering | 26 | 35 | 33 | 24 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
Science | 16 | 30 | 29 | 21 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | 6 | 6 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 9 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 6 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 10 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . |
Mechanical engineering | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 8 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 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 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 205,201 | 181,400 | 164,070 | 144,187 | 124,713 | 100,956 | 80,099 | 77,300 | 67,580 | 61,887 | ||||||||||
Science | 132,319 | 118,454 | 110,347 | 103,204 | 89,624 | 69,211 | 51,192 | 44,359 | 53,533 | 47,539 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 25,361 | 16,823 | 11,111 | 11,650 | 15,078 | 17,710 | 8,987 | 8,219 | 11,301 | 8,376 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 4,439 | 6,277 | 5,426 | 3,957 | 3,290 | 4,333 | 2,254 | 2,146 | 1,801 | 1,456 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 2,697 | 5,186 | 4,367 | 2,215 | 1,869 | 2,569 | 707 | 344 | 645 | 627 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 811 | 1,091 | 1,059 | 260 | 187 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 931 | 0 | 0 | 1,482 | 1,234 | 1,674 | 1,547 | 1,800 | 1,156 | 829 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 89,731 | 80,528 | 87,621 | 73,146 | 62,543 | 40,408 | 30,582 | 27,078 | 33,607 | 32,490 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 1,301 | 240 | 262 | 1,647 | 34 | 9 | 6 | 49 | 55 | 297 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 67,016 | 60,760 | 68,528 | 16,539 | 62,238 | 20,954 | 29,698 | 25,272 | 32,519 | 31,321 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 19,606 | 18,818 | 18,497 | 51,140 | 0 | 19,103 | 745 | 640 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 1,808 | 704 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 6 | 334 | 3,820 | 271 | 342 | 133 | 1,117 | 1,033 | 872 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 2,939 | 3,119 | 2,117 | 3,226 | 1,603 | 1,537 | 1,582 | 1,733 | 1,419 | 1,774 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 3,957 | 6,453 | 3,546 | 1,369 | 3,011 | 3,232 | 2,861 | 1,565 | 970 | 1,126 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 68 | 103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 1,327 | 1,029 | 1,256 | 162 | 853 | 630 | 591 | 510 | 390 | 378 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 1,879 | 1,007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 1,826 | 3,442 | 1,283 | 460 | 2,146 | 2,490 | 2,190 | 904 | 580 | 748 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 736 | 0 | 0 | 747 | 12 | 112 | 80 | 151 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 86 | 151 | 327 | 5,326 | 117 | 76 | 194 | 243 | 243 | 299 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 4,463 | 3,919 | 97 | 406 | 1,792 | 1,128 | 2,668 | 1,409 | 1,568 | 802 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 205 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 2,102 | 325 | 97 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 409 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 2,106 | 3,594 | 0 | 0 | 213 | 468 | 472 | 156 | 146 | 108 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 289 | 7 | 271 | 216 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 34 | 0 | 0 | 406 | 1,572 | 650 | 1,907 | 837 | 1,151 | 478 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,343 | 1,184 | 102 | 4,124 | 2,190 | 787 | 2,064 | 1,966 | 2,624 | 1,216 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 32,259 | 30,295 | 27,878 | 28,397 | 13,188 | 9,569 | 7,792 | 10,891 | 5,535 | 4,550 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 7,505 | 7,945 | 8,182 | 4,974 | 3,674 | 3,668 | 2,300 | 2,572 | 1,858 | 810 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 5,716 | 4,788 | 3,758 | 4,395 | 1,884 | 2,384 | 1,220 | 1,145 | 1,483 | 961 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 3,643 | 2,759 | 3,925 | 2,806 | 976 | 643 | 414 | 627 | 310 | 405 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 9,967 | 9,519 | 8,238 | 6,712 | 5,936 | 2,406 | 1,513 | 4,668 | 1,275 | 1,876 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 4,728 | 3,446 | 2,277 | 1,277 | 481 | 230 | 301 | 0 | 332 | 280 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 700 | 1,808 | 1,489 | 8,233 | 237 | 238 | 2,044 | 1,879 | 277 | 218 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 40,623 | 32,651 | 25,845 | 12,586 | 21,901 | 22,176 | 21,115 | 22,050 | 8,512 | 9,798 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 12,600 | 9,662 | 6,428 | 1,131 | 5,287 | 4,100 | 3,432 | 3,348 | 1,738 | 1,702 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 1,238 | 1,180 | 1,468 | 1,841 | 769 | 713 | 2,577 | 2,092 | 217 | 344 | ||||||||||
Education | 13,193 | 7,713 | 8,750 | 6,350 | 10,472 | 11,697 | 8,328 | 9,113 | 4,544 | 5,159 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 9,282 | 8,951 | 6,185 | 2,474 | 2,967 | 2,639 | 2,629 | 3,713 | 1,526 | 2,041 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 269 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 237 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 732 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 2,398 | 4,370 | 1,492 | 790 | 1,235 | 954 | 481 | 1,029 | 487 | 544 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 1,675 | 773 | 1,521 | 0 | 1,171 | 2,073 | 3,521 | 1,754 | 0 | 8 |
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 | 205,201 | 77,110 | 10,541 | 42,605 | 74,657 | 288 | 0 | |||||||
Science | 132,319 | 46,802 | 7,765 | 17,071 | 60,630 | 51 | 0 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 25,361 | 12,682 | 3,096 | 4,264 | 5,319 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 4,439 | 1,843 | 80 | 1,276 | 1,222 | 18 | 0 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 2,697 | 1,032 | 0 | 1,037 | 628 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 811 | 811 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 931 | 0 | 80 | 239 | 594 | 18 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 89,731 | 28,295 | 2,301 | 6,434 | 52,686 | 15 | 0 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 1,301 | 10 | 28 | 771 | 492 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 67,016 | 16,403 | 1,047 | 3,554 | 45,997 | 15 | 0 | |||||||
Health sciences | 19,606 | 11,791 | 183 | 1,435 | 6,197 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 1,808 | 91 | 1,043 | 674 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 2,939 | 158 | 70 | 1,879 | 832 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 3,957 | 194 | 208 | 3,045 | 510 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 68 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 1,327 | 63 | 172 | 1,092 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 1,826 | 63 | 36 | 1,217 | 510 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 736 | 0 | 0 | 736 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 86 | 0 | 20 | 50 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences | 4,463 | 3,630 | 647 | 123 | 61 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
Anthropology | 205 | 205 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 2,102 | 1,375 | 611 | 114 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 2,106 | 2,050 | 2 | 9 | 45 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 34 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,343 | 0 | 1,343 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 32,259 | 9,736 | 2,196 | 12,441 | 7,649 | 237 | 0 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 7,505 | 2,137 | 278 | 3,725 | 1,165 | 200 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 5,716 | 2,310 | 804 | 1,736 | 831 | 35 | 0 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 3,643 | 1,097 | 59 | 1,509 | 978 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 9,967 | 1,386 | 186 | 4,663 | 3,730 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 4,728 | 2,806 | 169 | 808 | 945 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 700 | 0 | 700 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 40,623 | 20,572 | 580 | 13,093 | 6,378 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 12,600 | 7,227 | 33 | 2,944 | 2,396 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 1,238 | 0 | 3 | 309 | 926 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 13,193 | 8,657 | 334 | 3,356 | 846 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 9,282 | 4,348 | 80 | 3,556 | 1,298 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 237 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 237 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 2,398 | 114 | 16 | 2,172 | 96 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 1,675 | 226 | 114 | 756 | 579 | 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 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 77,110 | 65,436 | 40,044 | 34,400 | 28,874 | 23,895 | 16,893 | 15,799 | 10,666 | 11,090 | ||||||||||
DOD | 3,084 | 2,436 | 634 | 570 | 441 | 536 | 509 | 734 | 375 | 596 | ||||||||||
DOE | 2,361 | 1,758 | 1,223 | 1,516 | 264 | 614 | 756 | 506 | 337 | 655 | ||||||||||
HHS | 32,725 | 18,940 | 18,677 | 18,429 | 12,135 | 7,790 | 5,674 | 5,452 | 4,574 | 5,859 | ||||||||||
NASA | 1,041 | 808 | 555 | 312 | 113 | 171 | 206 | 321 | 309 | 294 | ||||||||||
NSF | 5,882 | 4,776 | 3,670 | 2,884 | 2,404 | 3,833 | 2,600 | 2,287 | 2,168 | 1,553 | ||||||||||
USDA | 2,279 | 3,679 | 339 | 494 | 335 | 275 | 187 | 150 | 128 | 82 | ||||||||||
Other | 29,738 | 33,039 | 14,946 | 10,195 | 13,182 | 10,676 | 6,961 | 6,349 | 2,775 | 2,051 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Year | All personnel | Principal investigators | Other personnel | Postdocs | |||
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2022 | . | . | . | . | |||
2021 | . | . | . | . | |||
2020 | . | . | . | . | |||
2019 | 1,009 | 118 | 891 | . | |||
2018 | 985 | 121 | 864 | . | |||
2017 | 876 | 75 | 801 | . | |||
2016 | 926 | 125 | 801 | 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 825 | 823 | 754 | 695 | 640 |
Agricultural sciences | 57 | 57 | 51 | 44 | 42 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 537 | 538 | 511 | 495 | 497 |
Computer and information sciences | 60 | 60 | 47 | 42 | 28 |
Engineering | 49 | 49 | 49 | 40 | 44 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Health sciences | 18 | 18 | 18 | 13 | 3 |
Mathematics and statistics | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Natural resources and conservation | 48 | 48 | 4 | 3 | . |
Physical sciences | 11 | 11 | 33 | 19 | 18 |
Psychology | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
Social sciences | 15 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 2 |
Other | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 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 | 154,700 | . | . | . | . |
Engineering | 64,700 | . | . | . | . |
Health sciences | 90,000 | . | . | . | . |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Field | Planned to start in FY 2022 or FY 2023 | Started in FY 2020 or FY 2021 | Started in FY 2018 or FY 2019 | Started in FY 2016 or FY 2017 | Started in FY 2014 or FY 2015 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
All research space | 16,000 | 3,758 | 3,850 | 2,835 | 2,696 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 500 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 1,837 | 1,674 | 0 | 696 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 385 | 0 |
Engineering | 16,000 | 626 | 865 | 1,800 | 2,000 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health sciences | 0 | 1,295 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 364 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 650 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 448 | 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.