U. Montana
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 | 298 | 56.7 | 680 | |||||||||
2021 | 257 | 63.3 | 691 | |||||||||
2020 | 259 | 63.3 | 697 | |||||||||
2019 | 285 | 59.6 | 696 | |||||||||
2018 | 282 | 60.1 | 698 | |||||||||
2017 | 272 | 60.7 | 684 | |||||||||
2016 | 246 | 65.2 | 697 | |||||||||
2015 | 289 | 58.8 | 693 | |||||||||
2014 | 289 | 58.5 | 688 | |||||||||
2013 | 294 | 47.6 | 555 |
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
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All full-time students | 338 | 395 | 355 | 308 | 316 | 348 | 440 | 339 | 328 | 306 |
Male | 108 | 131 | 124 | 103 | 99 | 143 | 191 | 160 | 161 | 153 |
Female | 230 | 264 | 231 | 205 | 217 | 205 | 249 | 179 | 167 | 153 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 308 | 374 | 341 | 294 | 295 | 324 | 402 | 310 | 293 | 275 |
Hispanic or Latino | 25 | 27 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 276 | 332 | 321 | 272 | 259 | 286 | 357 | 254 | 267 | 245 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 17 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 25 | 19 | 19 | 20 |
Asian | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
Black or African American | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
White | 237 | 293 | 294 | 242 | 229 | 261 | 323 | 224 | 235 | 215 |
More than one race | 17 | 17 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 7 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 22 | 29 | 39 | 52 | 21 | 21 |
Temporary visa holders | 30 | 21 | 14 | 14 | 21 | 24 | 38 | 29 | 35 | 31 |
Science and engineering | 244 | 299 | 260 | 222 | 230 | 298 | 389 | 338 | 327 | 304 |
Science | 244 | 299 | 260 | 222 | 230 | 298 | 385 | 336 | 327 | 304 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 43 | 39 | 22 | 30 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 74 | 91 | 71 | 59 | 55 | 78 | 62 | 86 | 87 | 63 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 5 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 8 | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 13 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 62 | 46 | 49 | 50 |
Mathematics and statistics | 10 | 11 | 13 | 21 | 9 | 16 | 24 | 24 | 21 | 20 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 29 | 33 | 41 | 5 | 6 | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 48 | 64 | 0 | 14 | 23 | 69 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 6 | 6 | 9 | 12 |
Physical sciences | 13 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 33 | 24 | 28 | 30 |
Psychology | 20 | 27 | 30 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 33 | 26 | 25 | 25 |
Social sciences | 61 | 73 | 77 | 61 | 68 | 73 | 108 | 85 | 86 | 74 |
Engineering | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 4 | 2 | . | . |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 4 | 2 | . | . |
Other engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 94 | 96 | 95 | 86 | 86 | 50 | 51 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Clinical medicine | 26 | 26 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 50 | 48 | . | . | . |
Other health | 68 | 70 | 72 | 66 | 69 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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 | 338 | 310 | 229 | 243 | 227 | 164 | 206 | 192 | 191 | 223 |
Male | 121 | 124 | 86 | 92 | 81 | 70 | 86 | 86 | 86 | 98 |
Female | 217 | 186 | 143 | 151 | 146 | 94 | 120 | 106 | 105 | 125 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 323 | 301 | 221 | 235 | 218 | 152 | 196 | 182 | 181 | 216 |
Hispanic or Latino | 16 | 12 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 289 | 275 | 202 | 212 | 199 | 140 | 167 | 153 | 148 | 187 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 8 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 9 |
Asian | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Black or African American | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
White | 260 | 245 | 181 | 180 | 177 | 124 | 141 | 137 | 126 | 174 |
More than one race | 13 | 15 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 18 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 22 | 27 | 30 | 26 |
Temporary visa holders | 15 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 7 |
Science and engineering | 243 | 230 | 160 | 181 | 160 | 164 | 206 | 192 | 191 | 223 |
Science | 242 | 230 | 160 | 181 | 160 | 164 | 206 | 192 | 191 | 223 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 65 | 24 | 21 | 40 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 47 | 40 | 36 | 20 | 17 | 28 | 17 | 58 | 40 | 58 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 8 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 4 | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 11 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 24 | 26 | 24 |
Mathematics and statistics | 13 | 15 | 20 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 5 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 1 | 1 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 9 | 14 | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 76 | 75 | 0 | 44 | 38 | 62 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 10 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 29 | 27 | 22 | 19 | 17 | 0 | 19 | 18 | 23 | 19 |
Social sciences | 47 | 43 | 41 | 51 | 44 | 28 | 72 | 60 | 75 | 77 |
Engineering | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Other engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 95 | 80 | 69 | 62 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 72 | 76 | 66 | 59 | 64 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Other health | 23 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Field | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All surveyed fields | 26 | 29 | 32 | 26 | 28 | 31 | 71 | 59 | 49 | 58 |
Science and engineering | 23 | 26 | 29 | 22 | 25 | 31 | 71 | 59 | 49 | 58 |
Science | 23 | 26 | 29 | 22 | 25 | 31 | 71 | 59 | 49 | 58 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 13 | 11 | 4 | 11 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 23 | 23 | 21 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 7 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
Mathematics and statistics | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Psychology | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 11 |
Social sciences | 4 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 1 |
Engineering | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Other engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Other health | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Type and primary source of support | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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All types and sources of support | 338 | 395 | 355 | 308 | 316 | 348 | 440 | 339 | 328 | 306 |
Fellowships | 4 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 12 | 12 |
Federal | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 9 |
Institutional | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Research assistantships | 63 | 72 | 64 | 45 | 63 | 76 | 79 | 67 | 56 | 56 |
Federal | 18 | 23 | 21 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 47 | 38 | 31 | 48 |
Institutional | 42 | 45 | 43 | 26 | 38 | 51 | 21 | 22 | 17 | 6 |
Nonfederal | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 2 |
Teaching assistantships | 110 | 130 | 114 | 102 | 100 | 124 | 156 | 155 | 153 | 138 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 103 | 125 | 109 | 99 | 96 | 118 | 156 | 155 | 153 | 138 |
Nonfederal | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other types of support | 161 | 187 | 167 | 154 | 146 | 135 | 188 | 108 | 107 | 100 |
Federal | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 1 |
Institutional | 41 | 52 | 48 | 32 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 5 | 6 |
Nonfederal | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 5 |
Personal resources | 111 | 127 | 105 | 109 | 112 | 111 | 161 | 70 | 90 | 88 |
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 | 62 | 60 | 78 | 40 | 28 | 55 | 32 | 36 | 36 | 33 |
Science | 62 | 60 | 78 | 40 | 28 | 55 | 32 | 36 | 36 | 33 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 42 | 36 | 36 | 22 | 16 | 36 | 15 | 28 | 17 | 14 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 16 | 12 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 3 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Physical sciences | 2 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 13 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Other engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 8 | 10 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 4 | 4 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Other health | 4 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 13 | 25 | 20 | 27 | 23 | 26 |
Science and engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 25 | 17 | 27 | 23 | 26 |
Science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 25 | 17 | 27 | 23 | 26 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 20 | 8 | 10 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | . | . | . |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Neurobiology and neuroscience | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Other engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . |
Other health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 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).