U. Minnesota, Twin Cities

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 | 15 | 4.1 | 448 | 3 | 1.3 | 583 | 22 | 3.3 | 909 | |||
2020 | 15 | 4.1 | 450 | 20 | 3.1 | 915 | ||||||
2019 | 12 | 3.4 | 447 | 3 | 1.3 | 589 | 17 | 2.7 | 913 | |||
2018 | 15 | 4.2 | 428 | 17 | 2.7 | 910 | ||||||
2017 | 14 | 4 | 425 | 3 | 1.3 | 575 | 17 | 2.8 | 897 | |||
2016 | 5 | 1.9 | 430 | 15 | 2.6 | 895 | ||||||
2015 | 11 | 3.3 | 426 | 4 | 1.5 | 570 | 14 | 2.4 | 897 | |||
2014 | 6 | 2.2 | 422 | 15 | 2.6 | 887 | ||||||
2013 | 5 | 2 | 417 | 2 | 1.2 | 588 | 15 | 2.6 | 884 | |||
2012 | 6 | 2.2 | 412 | 14 | 2.4 | 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 | 626 | 647 | 719 | 665 | 678 | 787 | 711 | 762 | 762 | 721 |
Science and engineering | 526 | 503 | 561 | 539 | 521 | 602 | 529 | 564 | 578 | 534 |
Science | 392 | 377 | 429 | 393 | 400 | 466 | 402 | 433 | 448 | 419 |
Life science | 158 | 167 | 188 | 186 | 181 | 199 | 183 | 200 | 210 | 206 |
Agricultural sciences | 21 | 32 | 22 | 25 | 36 | 29 | 33 | 39 | 36 | 27 |
Biological sciences | 104 | 94 | 115 | 110 | 104 | 115 | 102 | 104 | 111 | 120 |
Health sciences | 33 | 41 | 51 | 51 | 41 | 55 | 48 | 57 | 63 | 59 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | 68 | 63 | 78 | 78 | 66 | 79 | 68 | 72 | 63 | 61 |
Chemistry | 39 | 34 | 46 | 36 | 38 | 41 | 33 | 42 | 32 | 27 |
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 15 |
Physics and astronomy | 22 | 22 | 24 | 33 | 16 | 26 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 19 |
Mathematics and computer sciences | 56 | 37 | 55 | 39 | 51 | 47 | 50 | 46 | 70 | 32 |
Computer sciences | 30 | 20 | 28 | 23 | 29 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 31 | 17 |
Mathematics | 26 | 17 | 27 | 16 | 22 | 21 | 24 | 20 | 39 | 15 |
Psychology and social sciences | 110 | 110 | 108 | 90 | 102 | 141 | 101 | 115 | 105 | 120 |
Psychology | 34 | 43 | 46 | 34 | 44 | 64 | 34 | 42 | 38 | 40 |
Anthropology | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Economics | 40 | 26 | 29 | 20 | 23 | 32 | 20 | 25 | 21 | 25 |
Political science and government | 3 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 |
Sociology | 3 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 10 | 12 |
Other social sciences | 27 | 18 | 17 | 14 | 18 | 26 | 21 | 19 | 25 | 28 |
Engineering | 134 | 126 | 132 | 146 | 121 | 136 | 127 | 131 | 130 | 115 |
Aeronautical/astronautical engineering | 8 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 6 |
Biological/biomedical sciences | 20 | 16 | 14 | 20 | 17 | 22 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 12 |
Chemical engineering | 22 | 21 | 21 | 27 | 23 | 19 | 17 | 18 | 15 | 15 |
Civil engineering | 6 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 11 |
Electrical engineering | 26 | 22 | 30 | 28 | 29 | 27 | 32 | 25 | 41 | 35 |
Industrial engineering | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | . | . |
Materials/metallurgical engineering | 16 | 9 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 11 |
Mechanical engineering | 19 | 29 | 18 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 24 | 35 | 14 | 15 |
Other engineering | 13 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 10 |
Non-science and engineering | 100 | 144 | 158 | 126 | 157 | 185 | 182 | 198 | 184 | 187 |
Education | 37 | 58 | 66 | 58 | 77 | 80 | 82 | 75 | 83 | 77 |
Education administration | 11 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 11 |
Education research | 21 | 42 | 31 | 34 | 57 | 47 | 57 | 51 | 56 | 55 |
Teacher education | . | . | 1 | 2 | . | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Teaching fields | 4 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 8 |
Other education | 1 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
Humanities | 27 | 52 | 51 | 29 | 49 | 43 | 48 | 62 | 61 | 59 |
Foreign languages & literature | 4 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 5 |
History | 11 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 17 |
Letters | 7 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 21 | 22 | 15 |
Other humanities and arts | 5 | 10 | 27 | 8 | 19 | 11 | 23 | 14 | 15 | 22 |
Other | 36 | 34 | 41 | 39 | 31 | 62 | 52 | 61 | 40 | 51 |
Business management/administration | 18 | 22 | 14 | 19 | 15 | 34 | 23 | 30 | 12 | 26 |
Communication | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 10 | 12 | 17 |
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec) | 14 | 8 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 21 | 16 | 8 |
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
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 1,072,961 | 1,042,382 | 1,013,112 | 954,683 | 921,681 | 910,181 | 880,618 | 876,870 | 858,378 | 826,173 | ||||||||||
Science | 913,106 | 878,385 | 849,236 | 791,161 | 757,451 | 754,656 | 729,397 | 744,464 | 733,806 | 715,839 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 22,629 | 22,996 | 22,227 | 21,810 | 21,511 | 16,151 | 15,498 | 15,447 | 15,943 | 15,120 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 13,634 | 14,715 | 14,391 | 14,248 | 14,204 | 13,960 | 15,007 | 15,088 | 15,624 | 14,111 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 13,634 | 14,715 | 14,391 | 14,248 | 14,204 | 13,960 | 13,027 | 13,069 | 13,275 | 12,033 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,980 | 2,019 | 2,349 | 2,078 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 760,975 | 722,074 | 684,938 | 635,157 | 607,864 | 610,920 | 581,577 | 595,108 | 585,286 | 586,222 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 71,646 | 74,148 | 64,132 | 58,990 | 56,691 | 56,794 | 89,171 | 84,973 | 79,217 | 77,820 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 118,493 | 111,883 | 101,129 | 108,847 | 101,566 | 98,607 | 107,393 | 108,277 | 109,579 | 109,292 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 514,691 | 474,705 | 461,261 | 410,600 | 393,519 | 401,492 | 379,191 | 397,011 | 390,867 | 392,590 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 51,022 | 55,059 | 52,659 | 50,185 | 51,535 | 50,333 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 5,123 | 6,279 | 5,757 | 6,535 | 4,553 | 3,694 | 5,822 | 4,847 | 5,623 | 6,520 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 8,555 | 8,994 | 9,822 | 7,847 | 7,464 | 9,804 | 14,334 | 12,632 | 12,295 | 10,469 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 41,812 | 43,946 | 45,573 | 39,527 | 38,747 | 40,569 | 40,497 | 46,377 | 45,720 | 37,258 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 1,989 | 1,937 | 1,631 | 1,853 | 1,677 | 2,180 | 2,117 | 1,839 | 2,082 | 1,802 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 20,661 | 22,061 | 21,094 | 18,303 | 18,708 | 19,695 | 19,700 | 19,539 | 16,413 | 13,477 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 19,162 | 19,948 | 22,848 | 19,371 | 18,362 | 18,694 | 18,680 | 24,999 | 27,225 | 21,979 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 29,408 | 31,954 | 34,448 | 37,381 | 31,837 | 27,243 | 25,539 | 25,781 | 25,041 | 21,661 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 33,248 | 31,218 | 35,278 | 35,191 | 35,824 | 36,009 | 35,718 | 33,191 | 33,061 | 29,866 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 193 | 191 | 739 | 233 | 308 | 408 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 6,548 | 6,218 | 8,320 | 7,885 | 6,652 | 6,949 | 6,903 | 7,204 | 6,960 | 7,282 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 4,154 | 6,691 | 8,740 | 8,701 | 8,396 | 7,168 | 7,779 | 6,733 | 6,852 | 6,966 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 19,908 | 15,108 | 14,153 | 14,031 | 16,418 | 17,236 | 17,859 | 16,188 | 16,831 | 13,650 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 2,445 | 3,010 | 3,326 | 4,341 | 4,050 | 4,248 | 3,177 | 3,066 | 2,418 | 1,968 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 2,845 | 2,488 | 2,559 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,227 | 840 | 836 | 1,132 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 121,637 | 120,929 | 120,976 | 124,637 | 123,835 | 117,858 | 114,619 | 106,416 | 100,375 | 90,993 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 10,190 | 12,046 | 11,937 | 10,655 | 8,492 | 8,244 | 8,390 | 6,657 | 6,472 | 6,947 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 29,072 | 25,028 | 23,895 | 26,763 | 25,698 | 22,658 | 22,927 | 21,268 | 19,195 | 17,486 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 20,684 | 24,803 | 25,172 | 26,316 | 25,715 | 24,134 | 20,795 | 16,489 | 17,759 | 13,689 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 13,225 | 13,513 | 15,692 | 17,316 | 17,440 | 17,698 | 16,394 | 16,030 | 16,882 | 18,068 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 18,813 | 19,080 | 20,047 | 18,345 | 18,309 | 16,603 | 15,981 | 15,437 | 14,104 | 13,906 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 1,148 | 2,281 | 1,887 | 2,108 | 2,190 | 2,093 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 23,064 | 18,088 | 17,233 | 15,200 | 13,776 | 15,350 | 18,453 | 18,989 | 18,717 | 15,950 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 5,441 | 6,090 | 5,113 | 7,934 | 12,215 | 11,078 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11,679 | 11,546 | 7,246 | 4,947 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 38,218 | 43,068 | 42,900 | 38,885 | 40,395 | 37,667 | 36,602 | 25,990 | 24,197 | 19,341 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 17,600 | 16,907 | 16,395 | 16,005 | 16,757 | 17,145 | 17,064 | 8,822 | 8,433 | 5,063 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 463 | 713 | 550 | 350 | 215 | 350 | 242 | 336 | 376 | 369 | ||||||||||
Education | 10,490 | 15,212 | 13,445 | 10,383 | 12,371 | 11,060 | 10,728 | 9,118 | 7,543 | 7,135 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 3,074 | 3,385 | 4,002 | 2,753 | 2,935 | 2,125 | 1,787 | 1,453 | 1,533 | 1,685 | ||||||||||
Law | 2,264 | 1,728 | 1,594 | 1,379 | 1,306 | 1,442 | 1,451 | 1,508 | 1,545 | 1,456 | ||||||||||
Social work | 1,204 | 1,436 | 1,164 | 3,812 | 4,041 | 2,949 | 1,264 | 1,331 | 1,020 | 561 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 172 | 252 | 335 | 2,193 | 1,566 | 1,054 | 1,630 | 1,164 | 1,443 | 981 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 2,951 | 3,435 | 5,415 | 2,010 | 1,204 | 1,542 | 2,436 | 2,258 | 2,304 | 2,091 |
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 | 1,072,961 | 570,946 | 69,842 | 309,620 | 44,460 | 45,879 | 32,214 | |||||||
Science | 913,106 | 483,889 | 59,903 | 255,035 | 41,490 | 41,346 | 31,443 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 22,629 | 9,509 | 424 | 11,648 | 143 | 321 | 584 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 13,634 | 8,548 | 2,121 | 2,806 | 0 | 10 | 149 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 13,634 | 8,548 | 2,121 | 2,806 | 0 | 10 | 149 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 760,975 | 388,235 | 53,787 | 214,305 | 39,244 | 35,699 | 29,705 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 71,646 | 24,629 | 15,889 | 23,140 | 1,928 | 4,270 | 1,790 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 118,493 | 75,180 | 7,730 | 27,270 | 2,163 | 4,453 | 1,697 | |||||||
Health sciences | 514,691 | 274,027 | 13,934 | 141,265 | 34,930 | 25,570 | 24,965 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 51,022 | 11,115 | 16,120 | 21,227 | 223 | 1,084 | 1,253 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 5,123 | 3,284 | 114 | 1,403 | 0 | 322 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 8,555 | 5,674 | 522 | 1,553 | 166 | 630 | 10 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 41,812 | 32,702 | 234 | 7,636 | 827 | 164 | 249 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 1,989 | 1,447 | 0 | 542 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 20,661 | 15,439 | 156 | 3,887 | 827 | 104 | 248 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 19,162 | 15,816 | 78 | 3,207 | 0 | 60 | 1 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 29,408 | 20,743 | 424 | 6,387 | 295 | 1,348 | 211 | |||||||
Social sciences | 33,248 | 18,265 | 2,273 | 9,126 | 745 | 2,325 | 514 | |||||||
Anthropology | 193 | 38 | 0 | 75 | 0 | 20 | 60 | |||||||
Economics | 6,548 | 1,914 | 1,591 | 1,773 | 726 | 421 | 123 | |||||||
Political science and government | 4,154 | 581 | 348 | 2,692 | 19 | 403 | 111 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 19,908 | 15,226 | 39 | 3,140 | 0 | 1,309 | 194 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 2,445 | 506 | 295 | 1,446 | 0 | 172 | 26 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 2,845 | 213 | 118 | 1,574 | 70 | 849 | 21 | |||||||
Engineering | 121,637 | 78,808 | 8,670 | 28,975 | 2,549 | 1,968 | 667 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 10,190 | 8,859 | 109 | 1,222 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 29,072 | 20,004 | 2,924 | 5,411 | 350 | 288 | 95 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 20,684 | 13,497 | 224 | 5,269 | 1,016 | 374 | 304 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 13,225 | 5,096 | 2,436 | 5,374 | 51 | 169 | 99 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 18,813 | 12,341 | 1,004 | 4,071 | 385 | 979 | 33 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 1,148 | 326 | 0 | 806 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 23,064 | 14,340 | 1,973 | 5,729 | 744 | 158 | 120 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 5,441 | 4,345 | 0 | 1,093 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 38,218 | 8,249 | 1,269 | 25,610 | 421 | 2,565 | 104 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 17,600 | 688 | 29 | 16,531 | 29 | 323 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 463 | 191 | 0 | 172 | 0 | 100 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 10,490 | 5,161 | 64 | 4,426 | 312 | 462 | 65 | |||||||
Humanities | 3,074 | 936 | 13 | 1,866 | 0 | 225 | 34 | |||||||
Law | 2,264 | 343 | 0 | 1,129 | 0 | 789 | 3 | |||||||
Social work | 1,204 | 303 | 148 | 356 | 0 | 395 | 2 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 172 | 30 | 0 | 142 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 2,951 | 597 | 1,015 | 988 | 80 | 271 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Prior to FY 2016, expenditures for natural resources and conservation, materials science, anthropology, and industrial and manufacturing engineering were not collected separately. R&D expenditures in agricultural sciences decreased in FY 2016 because a number of disciplines previously reported in that field are now reported separately under natural resources and conservation.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education R&D Survey
Source of funds | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 570,946 | 514,092 | 494,549 | 464,300 | 456,443 | 469,260 | 476,029 | 489,767 | 494,206 | 485,462 | ||||||||||
DOD | 35,239 | 33,686 | 33,159 | 28,046 | 23,937 | 20,952 | 23,500 | 23,509 | 21,197 | 16,154 | ||||||||||
DOE | 22,531 | 22,855 | 21,696 | 20,106 | 17,765 | 19,783 | 21,423 | 25,392 | 26,585 | 21,948 | ||||||||||
HHS | 390,774 | 337,054 | 315,135 | 290,869 | 288,953 | 301,157 | 298,257 | 317,867 | 324,478 | 332,912 | ||||||||||
NASA | 7,611 | 8,609 | 11,391 | 11,508 | 9,254 | 9,480 | 7,627 | 8,341 | 7,064 | 6,010 | ||||||||||
NSF | 68,332 | 66,439 | 69,610 | 69,598 | 71,049 | 73,547 | 78,575 | 72,567 | 71,165 | 67,781 | ||||||||||
USDA | 33,840 | 31,472 | 29,714 | 28,432 | 28,355 | 25,678 | 24,844 | 24,719 | 24,993 | 23,131 | ||||||||||
Other | 12,619 | 13,977 | 13,844 | 15,741 | 17,130 | 18,663 | 21,803 | 17,372 | 18,724 | 17,526 |
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 | 14,681 | 2,855 | 11,826 | . | |||
2018 | 14,477 | 2,779 | 11,698 | . | |||
2017 | 14,117 | 2,666 | 11,451 | . | |||
2016 | 14,103 | 2,724 | 11,379 | . | |||
2015 | 14,022 | 2,628 | 11,394 | 1,112 |
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 | 3,712 | 3,763 | 3,791 | 3,400 | 3,673 |
Agricultural sciences | 1,392 | 1,450 | 1,367 | 1,261 | 1,370 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 468 | 473 | 500 | 459 | 440 |
Computer and information sciences | 32 | 36 | 47 | 9 | 4 |
Engineering | 326 | 305 | 306 | 249 | 254 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 171 | 174 | 151 | 128 | 138 |
Health sciences | 770 | 756 | 728 | 688 | 822 |
Mathematics and statistics | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 51 |
Natural resources and conservation | 109 | 113 | 115 | 82 | . |
Physical sciences | 198 | 194 | 227 | 209 | 343 |
Psychology | 88 | 93 | 92 | 84 | 84 |
Social sciences | 107 | 117 | 129 | 97 | 90 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 77 | 82 | 76 |
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 | . | 20,000 | 10,400 | 31,463 | 37,125 |
Agricultural sciences | . | . | 10,400 | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | . | . | . | . | 37,125 |
Health sciences | . | 20,000 | . | 23,000 | . |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | 8,463 | . |
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 | 1,065 | 75,961 | 25,425 | 38,401 | 19,590 |
Agricultural sciences | 683 | 13,796 | 11,855 | 2,796 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 382 | 2,678 | 1,360 | 0 | 847 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 0 | 54,644 | 0 | 1,645 | 11,087 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 1,210 | 24,144 | 0 |
Health sciences | 0 | 4,843 | 9,637 | 1,086 | 1,576 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 353 | 0 | 6,081 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8,730 | 0 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 1,009 | 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.