U. New Hampshire

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 | 158 | 23.5 | 691 | 157 | 27.5 | 583 | 138 | 15.9 | 909 | |||
2020 | 152 | 22.5 | 697 | 138 | 15.8 | 915 | ||||||
2019 | 158 | 23.4 | 696 | 157 | 27.3 | 589 | 141 | 16.2 | 913 | |||
2018 | 156 | 23 | 698 | 137 | 15.8 | 910 | ||||||
2017 | 161 | 24.2 | 684 | 205 | 36.2 | 575 | 133 | 15.6 | 897 | |||
2016 | 179 | 26.3 | 697 | 131 | 15.4 | 895 | ||||||
2015 | 186 | 27.5 | 693 | 171 | 30.6 | 570 | 125 | 14.7 | 897 | |||
2014 | 180 | 26.8 | 688 | 124 | 14.7 | 887 | ||||||
2013 | 166 | 30.5 | 555 | 168 | 29.2 | 588 | 123 | 14.7 | 884 | |||
2012 | 162 | 29.8 | 555 | 114 | 13.6 | 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

All races | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All full-time students | 865 | 843 | 839 | 847 | 798 | 729 | 707 | 738 | 768 | 795 |
Male | 437 | 438 | 453 | 472 | 442 | 395 | 399 | 416 | 393 | 407 |
Female | 428 | 405 | 386 | 375 | 356 | 334 | 308 | 322 | 375 | 388 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 613 | 580 | 560 | 583 | 562 | 530 | 518 | 547 | 582 | 607 |
Hispanic or Latino | 21 | 14 | 19 | 23 | 22 | 23 | 21 | 16 | 21 | 20 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 568 | 539 | 515 | 537 | 515 | 487 | 469 | 490 | 517 | 535 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Asian | 13 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 18 | 24 | 19 | 17 |
Black or African American | 14 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
White | 529 | 506 | 484 | 501 | 483 | 450 | 436 | 450 | 480 | 493 |
More than one race | 12 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 14 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 24 | 27 | 26 | 23 | 25 | 20 | 28 | 41 | 44 | 52 |
Temporary visa holders | 252 | 263 | 279 | 264 | 236 | 199 | 189 | 191 | 186 | 188 |
Science and engineering | 793 | 773 | 764 | 790 | 743 | 654 | 641 | 650 | 675 | 697 |
Science | 628 | 621 | 609 | 624 | 573 | 495 | 481 | 508 | 527 | 531 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 18 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 43 | 51 | 53 | 66 | 82 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 128 | 112 | 107 | 100 | 102 | 91 | 74 | 78 | 88 | 92 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 64 | 92 | 110 | 91 | 59 | 40 | 52 | 48 | 40 | 36 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 27 | 36 | 36 | 37 | 33 | 53 | 44 | 52 | 45 | 35 |
Mathematics and statistics | 62 | 65 | 44 | 50 | 47 | 60 | 57 | 59 | 52 | 47 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 82 | 72 | 80 | 86 | 90 | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 44 | 39 | 21 | 20 | 24 | 21 | 28 | 31 | 32 | 27 |
Physical sciences | 125 | 124 | 121 | 122 | 120 | 106 | 109 | 111 | 116 | 126 |
Social sciences | 72 | 66 | 80 | 105 | 96 | 80 | 63 | 73 | 85 | 84 |
Engineering | 165 | 152 | 155 | 166 | 170 | 159 | 160 | 142 | 148 | 166 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 16 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 14 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 48 | 48 | 54 | 49 | 55 | 57 | 58 | 43 | 41 | 51 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 27 | 30 | 31 | 39 | 31 | 21 | 28 | 23 | 22 | 22 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 46 | 32 | 31 | 43 | 48 | 35 | 33 | 41 | 41 | 46 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 9 |
Other engineering | 26 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 16 | 22 | 21 | 15 | 22 | 24 |
Health | 72 | 70 | 75 | 57 | 55 | 75 | 66 | 88 | 93 | 98 |
Clinical medicine | 13 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 21 | 24 | 28 |
Other health | 59 | 60 | 63 | 49 | 46 | 62 | 57 | 67 | 69 | 70 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
All races | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All part-time students | 176 | 171 | 147 | 156 | 149 | 220 | 203 | 228 | 259 | 248 |
Male | 89 | 92 | 82 | 98 | 100 | 129 | 116 | 120 | 143 | 132 |
Female | 87 | 79 | 65 | 58 | 49 | 91 | 87 | 108 | 116 | 116 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 147 | 145 | 138 | 142 | 130 | 200 | 190 | 215 | 243 | 236 |
Hispanic or Latino | 8 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 134 | 131 | 134 | 134 | 124 | 183 | 177 | 193 | 226 | 211 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Asian | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 8 |
Black or African American | 8 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 7 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
White | 122 | 113 | 119 | 120 | 110 | 172 | 159 | 178 | 199 | 193 |
More than one race | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 15 | 23 |
Temporary visa holders | 29 | 26 | 9 | 14 | 19 | 20 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 12 |
Science and engineering | 162 | 158 | 139 | 141 | 137 | 164 | 147 | 170 | 191 | 189 |
Science | 133 | 126 | 106 | 107 | 100 | 103 | 93 | 98 | 119 | 140 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 24 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 18 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 14 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 37 | 32 | 29 | 33 | 32 | 16 | 14 | 20 | 16 | 19 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 10 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
Mathematics and statistics | 10 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 12 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 11 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 20 | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Physical sciences | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 4 |
Social sciences | 36 | 39 | 33 | 31 | 28 | 33 | 31 | 36 | 45 | 58 |
Engineering | 29 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 37 | 61 | 54 | 72 | 72 | 49 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 10 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 24 | 20 | 29 | 25 | 17 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 8 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 12 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 7 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 14 | 18 | 24 | 13 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Other engineering | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
Health | 14 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 12 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 68 | 59 |
Clinical medicine | 6 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 21 | 16 |
Other health | 8 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 50 | 48 | 46 | 47 | 43 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Fields of study are grouped as they appear in survey data table (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvygradpostdoc/#tabs-2).
Field | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All surveyed fields | 91 | 93 | 109 | 117 | 116 | 97 | 93 | 92 | 97 | 111 |
Science and engineering | 88 | 90 | 106 | 117 | 116 | 97 | 92 | 92 | 97 | 111 |
Science | 64 | 66 | 77 | 87 | 84 | 67 | 65 | 71 | 68 | 76 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 8 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 6 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 9 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 6 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 12 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 15 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 20 | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 25 | 26 | 27 | 31 | 27 | 23 | 25 | 33 | 29 | 35 |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Social sciences | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Engineering | 24 | 24 | 29 | 30 | 32 | 30 | 27 | 21 | 29 | 35 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 14 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other engineering | 11 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 14 |
Health | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All types and sources of support | 865 | 843 | 839 | 847 | 798 | 729 | 707 | 738 | 768 | 795 |
Fellowships | 20 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 24 | 34 | 28 | 27 | 30 | 31 |
Federal | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 5 |
Institutional | 15 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 19 | 21 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
Research assistantships | 175 | 160 | 162 | 205 | 193 | 161 | 157 | 156 | 168 | 186 |
Federal | 83 | 83 | 94 | 110 | 104 | 83 | 82 | 84 | 89 | 104 |
Institutional | 64 | 44 | 39 | 50 | 53 | 56 | 46 | 31 | 32 | 40 |
Nonfederal | 28 | 33 | 29 | 45 | 36 | 22 | 29 | 41 | 47 | 42 |
Teaching assistantships | 388 | 369 | 363 | 349 | 353 | 346 | 325 | 329 | 327 | 343 |
Federal | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Institutional | 384 | 364 | 356 | 346 | 349 | 346 | 324 | 328 | 327 | 339 |
Nonfederal | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Other types of support | 282 | 293 | 292 | 272 | 228 | 188 | 197 | 226 | 243 | 235 |
Federal | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 52 | 66 | 61 | 71 | 62 | 40 | 31 | 35 | 35 | 31 |
Nonfederal | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Personal resources | 225 | 226 | 228 | 199 | 162 | 146 | 163 | 191 | 205 | 204 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
All races | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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Science and engineering | 59 | 49 | 51 | 62 | 54 | 51 | 45 | 45 | 34 | 48 |
Science | 47 | 42 | 44 | 52 | 47 | 45 | 40 | 43 | 30 | 44 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 21 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 8 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 8 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 13 | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 11 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 15 |
Social sciences | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 12 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
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All surveyed fields | 43 | 33 | 31 | 34 | 39 | 13 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 42 |
Science and engineering | 43 | 33 | 31 | 34 | 39 | 13 | 29 | 30 | 26 | 42 |
Science | 35 | 28 | 25 | 27 | 35 | 10 | 24 | 30 | 24 | 39 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 18 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . |
Natural resources and conservation | 8 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 13 | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 14 |
Social sciences | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 8 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . |
Mechanical engineering | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 167,373 | 156,901 | 148,980 | 146,430 | 145,375 | 145,015 | 144,735 | 147,544 | 147,446 | 165,156 | ||||||||||
Science | 130,291 | 122,387 | 113,765 | 114,139 | 111,489 | 116,547 | 105,617 | 106,941 | 97,352 | 109,209 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 1,057 | 854 | 883 | 359 | 1,879 | 2,124 | 1,476 | 348 | 375 | 314 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 55,523 | 51,661 | 48,149 | 52,678 | 51,592 | 54,491 | 53,596 | 58,766 | 61,051 | 65,215 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 28,224 | 23,179 | 20,369 | 22,150 | 20,685 | 21,176 | 21,556 | 24,711 | 27,828 | 35,057 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 6,307 | 6,146 | 6,267 | 7,571 | 9,624 | 12,853 | 14,333 | 14,742 | 12,549 | 12,025 | ||||||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 20,992 | 22,336 | 21,513 | 22,957 | 21,283 | 20,462 | 17,707 | 19,313 | 20,647 | 17,798 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 335 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 52,907 | 52,822 | 50,431 | 49,115 | 46,616 | 44,280 | 37,901 | 34,160 | 23,171 | 28,294 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 16,303 | 18,571 | 15,181 | 13,855 | 18,005 | 18,707 | 20,010 | 18,145 | 11,453 | 13,530 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 10,279 | 11,697 | 12,981 | 12,196 | 6,263 | 5,267 | 8,202 | 9,266 | 7,106 | 8,764 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 18,883 | 15,276 | 14,712 | 14,602 | 12,606 | 12,331 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 6,712 | 7,278 | 7,241 | 8,462 | 9,742 | 7,953 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 730 | 0 | 316 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 9,689 | 6,749 | 4,612 | 6,000 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,239 | 404 | 291 | 229 | 209 | 173 | 252 | 242 | 194 | 183 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 4,957 | 4,425 | 3,521 | 4,554 | 2,234 | 3,734 | 2,312 | 2,492 | 2,804 | 3,208 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 1,808 | 1,428 | 1,625 | 1,677 | 1,212 | 1,425 | 737 | 1,205 | 1,653 | 2,079 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 363 | 325 | 179 | 1,454 | 89 | 576 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 2,786 | 2,672 | 1,717 | 1,423 | 933 | 1,733 | 1,150 | 1,287 | 1,143 | 1,084 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 425 | 0 | 8 | 45 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 1,279 | 877 | 1,869 | 1,621 | 1,235 | 1,976 | 332 | 783 | 609 | 1,039 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 13,329 | 11,344 | 8,621 | 5,583 | 7,524 | 8,989 | 6,643 | 6,810 | 5,965 | 6,922 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 424 | 56 | 235 | 170 | 30 | 312 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 2,257 | 1,450 | 1,395 | 756 | 2,919 | 3,855 | 334 | 76 | 55 | 61 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 1,262 | 2,874 | 1,694 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 12 | 19 | 1 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 3,345 | 2,365 | 3,829 | 3,739 | 3,731 | 2,937 | 5,234 | 6,626 | 5,740 | 6,615 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 6,041 | 4,599 | 1,468 | 895 | 844 | 1,885 | 1,060 | 96 | 151 | 245 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 780 | 3,105 | 3,340 | 3,183 | 4,034 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 22,509 | 23,457 | 23,861 | 19,239 | 22,103 | 19,459 | 25,083 | 24,010 | 37,183 | 43,067 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 519 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,601 | 3,594 | 1,807 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 1,664 | 1,638 | 1,788 | 1,490 | 801 | 935 | 1,021 | 1,009 | 668 | 583 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 6,235 | 8,007 | 7,745 | 6,533 | 5,360 | 5,002 | 5,487 | 4,746 | 4,051 | 5,778 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 10,411 | 9,776 | 9,157 | 8,369 | 7,804 | 8,021 | 10,964 | 14,336 | 28,917 | 32,604 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 3,443 | 4,036 | 4,809 | 2,847 | 1,760 | 1,583 | 2,462 | 3,219 | 2,940 | 3,240 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 362 | 0 | 87 | 0 | 838 | 700 | 518 | 583 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 237 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 674 | 324 | 2,504 | 0 | 89 | 279 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 14,573 | 11,057 | 11,354 | 13,052 | 11,783 | 9,009 | 14,035 | 16,593 | 12,911 | 12,880 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 2,191 | 3,485 | 2,443 | 2,041 | 2,187 | 844 | 1,369 | 129 | 521 | 1,067 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 634 | 43 | 8 | 172 | 193 | 238 | 183 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Education | 5,061 | 4,869 | 6,929 | 8,292 | 6,448 | 5,705 | 10,045 | 14,399 | 10,992 | 10,827 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 3,875 | 1,414 | 775 | 778 | 435 | 552 | 450 | 685 | 344 | 128 | ||||||||||
Law | 688 | 228 | 105 | 35 | 214 | 176 | 539 | 155 | 56 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 1,347 | 911 | 974 | 1,289 | 1,937 | 1,418 | 1,338 | 1,096 | 993 | 842 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 459 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 15 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 318 | 107 | 120 | 445 | 369 | 76 | 90 | 125 | 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
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 | 167,373 | 99,323 | 7,547 | 47,286 | 7,870 | 3,511 | 1,836 | |||||||
Science | 130,291 | 86,595 | 7,195 | 30,465 | 1,158 | 3,162 | 1,716 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 1,057 | 567 | 0 | 468 | 0 | 22 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 55,523 | 44,691 | 430 | 8,378 | 306 | 824 | 894 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 28,224 | 24,076 | 0 | 4,118 | 10 | 11 | 9 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 6,307 | 4,373 | 352 | 1,479 | 0 | 69 | 34 | |||||||
Ocean sciences and marine sciences | 20,992 | 16,242 | 78 | 2,781 | 296 | 744 | 851 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences | 52,907 | 29,183 | 6,062 | 14,954 | 592 | 1,933 | 183 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 16,303 | 8,252 | 5,325 | 2,063 | 320 | 245 | 98 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 10,279 | 4,781 | 512 | 4,513 | 69 | 404 | 0 | |||||||
Health sciences | 18,883 | 11,612 | 185 | 5,706 | 61 | 1,235 | 84 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 6,712 | 4,538 | 40 | 1,942 | 142 | 49 | 1 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 730 | 0 | 0 | 730 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 1,239 | 352 | 0 | 868 | 19 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 4,957 | 2,355 | 0 | 2,478 | 77 | 47 | 0 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 1,808 | 655 | 0 | 1,153 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 363 | 239 | 0 | 47 | 77 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 2,786 | 1,461 | 0 | 1,278 | 0 | 47 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 1,279 | 534 | 0 | 623 | 0 | 0 | 122 | |||||||
Social sciences | 13,329 | 8,913 | 703 | 2,696 | 164 | 336 | 517 | |||||||
Anthropology | 424 | 0 | 263 | 159 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 2,257 | 1,245 | 0 | 795 | 164 | 53 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 1,262 | 92 | 1 | 928 | 0 | 239 | 2 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 3,345 | 1,567 | 410 | 811 | 0 | 42 | 515 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 6,041 | 6,009 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 22,509 | 8,984 | 144 | 6,642 | 6,668 | 3 | 68 | |||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 519 | 519 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemical engineering | 1,664 | 1,042 | 6 | 616 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 6,235 | 4,560 | 65 | 1,164 | 403 | 3 | 40 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 10,411 | 834 | 48 | 3,258 | 6,243 | 0 | 28 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 3,443 | 2,029 | 25 | 1,367 | 22 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 237 | 0 | 0 | 237 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 14,573 | 3,744 | 208 | 10,179 | 44 | 346 | 52 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 2,191 | 67 | 208 | 1,914 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 634 | 0 | 0 | 634 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 5,061 | 2,597 | 0 | 2,273 | 44 | 147 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 3,875 | 5 | 0 | 3,736 | 0 | 84 | 50 | |||||||
Law | 688 | 0 | 0 | 573 | 0 | 115 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 1,347 | 1,075 | 0 | 272 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 459 | 0 | 0 | 459 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 318 | 0 | 0 | 318 | 0 | 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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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Federal Agencies | 99,323 | 100,373 | 90,241 | 95,807 | 92,338 | 93,599 | 92,040 | 101,125 | 102,053 | 119,451 | ||||||||||
DOD | 4,042 | 4,758 | 3,195 | 3,780 | 3,338 | 2,688 | 2,641 | 2,093 | 1,257 | 1,559 | ||||||||||
DOE | 3,234 | 2,999 | 3,255 | 3,030 | 2,370 | 1,789 | 1,664 | 2,422 | 2,278 | 3,143 | ||||||||||
HHS | 23,219 | 19,871 | 18,096 | 16,749 | 13,834 | 13,469 | 10,327 | 10,809 | 7,553 | 9,288 | ||||||||||
NASA | 24,077 | 20,865 | 19,213 | 20,658 | 18,154 | 18,790 | 18,883 | 20,816 | 24,284 | 32,553 | ||||||||||
NSF | 14,761 | 18,563 | 18,567 | 16,267 | 18,195 | 20,923 | 20,505 | 20,986 | 19,515 | 15,311 | ||||||||||
USDA | 7,980 | 8,822 | 6,461 | 11,219 | 11,923 | 11,005 | 9,453 | 9,903 | 4,974 | 6,312 | ||||||||||
Other | 22,010 | 24,495 | 21,454 | 24,104 | 24,524 | 24,935 | 28,567 | 34,096 | 42,192 | 51,285 |
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 | 2,746 | 312 | 2,434 | . | |||
2018 | 2,460 | 295 | 2,165 | . | |||
2017 | 2,412 | 296 | 2,116 | . | |||
2016 | 2,455 | 286 | 2,169 | . | |||
2015 | 2,425 | 280 | 2,145 | 50 |
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 | 384 | 374 | 245 | 314 | 317 |
Agricultural sciences | 93 | 84 | 86 | 91 | 79 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 59 | 63 | 18 | 45 | 99 |
Computer and information sciences | 17 | 17 | 24 | 27 | 25 |
Engineering | 57 | 61 | 37 | 46 | 18 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 82 | 78 | 59 | 67 | 44 |
Health sciences | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 17 | 16 | 7 | 11 | . |
Physical sciences | 33 | 32 | 5 | 16 | 31 |
Psychology | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Social sciences | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
Other | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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 | . | . | 15,810 | . | . |
Agricultural sciences | . | . | 6,660 | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | . | . | 9,150 | . | . |
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 | 0 | 1,200 | 36,050 | 2,870 | 755 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 1,200 | 35,650 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 400 | 2,870 | 295 |
Health sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 460 |
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.