U. North Carolina, The, Charlotte
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 | 115 | 75.2 | 457 | 114 | 83.5 | 680 | 226 | 74.9 | 890 | |||
2021 | 114 | 74.9 | 447 | 113 | 83.9 | 691 | 174 | 70.6 | 583 | 199 | 78.4 | 907 |
2020 | 141 | 69.1 | 450 | 127 | 82.1 | 697 | 201 | 78.3 | 915 | |||
2019 | 128 | 71.8 | 447 | 109 | 84.6 | 696 | 175 | 70.7 | 589 | 207 | 77.6 | 913 |
2018 | 140 | 67.8 | 428 | 111 | 84.4 | 698 | 213 | 76.9 | 910 | |||
2017 | 136 | 68.5 | 425 | 102 | 85.4 | 684 | 168 | 71.2 | 575 | 244 | 73.2 | 897 |
2016 | 149 | 65.8 | 430 | 100 | 85.9 | 697 | 237 | 73.9 | 895 | |||
2015 | 138 | 68.1 | 426 | 108 | 84.7 | 693 | 209 | 63.8 | 570 | 244 | 73.2 | 897 |
2014 | 147 | 65.7 | 422 | 112 | 84 | 688 | 249 | 72.3 | 887 | |||
2013 | 127 | 70 | 417 | 120 | 78.7 | 555 | 200 | 66.4 | 588 | 246 | 72.5 | 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All fields | 156 | 138 | 111 | 129 | 114 | 108 | 105 | 114 | 102 | 125 |
Science and engineering | 115 | 105 | 88 | 102 | 88 | 86 | 79 | 78 | 75 | 98 |
Science | 79 | 64 | 60 | 63 | 58 | 59 | 53 | 59 | 47 | 69 |
Life science | 21 | 16 | 14 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 14 | 18 |
Agricultural sciences | . | 2 | 1 | . | 2 | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Biological sciences | 11 | 11 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 14 |
Health sciences | 10 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
Physical sciences and earth sciences | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 6 |
Chemistry | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . |
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences | 1 | . | 2 | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | . | . |
Physics and astronomy | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
Mathematics and computer sciences | 25 | 26 | 23 | 23 | 19 | 23 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 31 |
Computer sciences | 19 | 19 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 21 |
Mathematics | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
Psychology and social sciences | 26 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 25 | 14 | 14 |
Psychology | 17 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 7 |
Economics | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Sociology | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | 1 |
Other social sciences | 9 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 6 |
Engineering | 36 | 41 | 28 | 39 | 30 | 27 | 26 | 19 | 28 | 29 |
Biological/biomedical sciences | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 |
Civil engineering | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | . | 1 | 2 |
Electrical engineering | 6 | 14 | 7 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Materials/metallurgical engineering | 1 | . | . | . | . | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
Mechanical engineering | 12 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 6 |
Other engineering | 13 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
Non-science and engineering | 41 | 33 | 23 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 26 | 36 | 27 | 27 |
Education | 32 | 26 | 19 | 23 | 22 | 16 | 16 | 28 | 16 | 22 |
Education administration | 2 | 1 | . | . | 3 | 2 | 3 | . | 1 | 4 |
Education research | 30 | 24 | 16 | 19 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 27 | 14 | 16 |
Teacher education | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 |
Teaching fields | . | 1 | 1 | 4 | . | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Other education | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . |
Other | 9 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 5 |
Business management/administration | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 5 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . |
Fields not elsewhere classified (nec) | 4 | 2 | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
SOURCE: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Earned Doctorates
All races | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All full-time students | 1,479 | 1,369 | 1,142 | 1,350 | 1,299 | 1,423 | 1,518 | 1,484 | 1,380 | 1,191 |
Male | 838 | 778 | 669 | 794 | 775 | 841 | 895 | 900 | 860 | 716 |
Female | 641 | 591 | 473 | 556 | 524 | 582 | 623 | 584 | 520 | 475 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 543 | 606 | 549 | 486 | 467 | 564 | 597 | 604 | 578 | 553 |
Hispanic or Latino | 43 | 69 | 48 | 37 | 27 | 40 | 39 | 34 | 26 | 25 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 498 | 530 | 495 | 446 | 437 | 518 | 549 | 560 | 531 | 513 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Asian | 56 | 61 | 43 | 50 | 45 | 38 | 45 | 28 | 26 | 31 |
Black or African American | 74 | 66 | 61 | 55 | 47 | 58 | 68 | 83 | 73 | 77 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
White | 335 | 369 | 366 | 321 | 329 | 398 | 413 | 432 | 417 | 386 |
More than one race | 30 | 29 | 24 | 17 | 14 | 22 | 20 | 15 | 13 | 17 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 21 | 15 |
Temporary visa holders | 936 | 763 | 593 | 864 | 832 | 859 | 921 | 880 | 802 | 638 |
Science and engineering | 1,353 | 1,252 | 1,058 | 1,264 | 1,218 | 1,272 | 1,391 | 1,339 | 1,253 | 1,091 |
Science | 1,079 | 1,039 | 836 | 1,030 | 953 | 935 | 1,021 | 969 | 919 | 814 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 106 | 105 | 89 | 95 | 92 | 79 | 98 | 88 | 89 | 77 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 8 | 6 | 11 | 6 |
Computer and information sciences | 668 | 588 | 404 | 604 | 522 | 424 | 458 | 455 | 420 | 287 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 9 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 10 |
Mathematics and statistics | 67 | 87 | 93 | 86 | 102 | 114 | 103 | 87 | 86 | 119 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | 2 | 3 | 3 | 70 | 66 | 66 | 62 | 50 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 39 | 43 | 38 | 40 | 40 | 41 | 37 | 34 | 38 | 43 |
Physical sciences | 81 | 76 | 71 | 71 | 72 | 76 | 76 | 67 | 72 | 69 |
Social sciences | 109 | 127 | 126 | 118 | 112 | 119 | 157 | 150 | 130 | 153 |
Engineering | 274 | 213 | 222 | 234 | 265 | 337 | 370 | 370 | 334 | 277 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 81 | 36 | 25 | 19 | 14 | 19 | 15 | 18 | 23 | 25 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 115 | 95 | 105 | 132 | 143 | 182 | 191 | 209 | 218 | 151 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 13 |
Mechanical engineering | 62 | 66 | 79 | 76 | 104 | 136 | 152 | 124 | 75 | 72 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 16 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 19 | 18 | 16 |
Health | 126 | 117 | 84 | 86 | 81 | 151 | 127 | 145 | 127 | 100 |
Clinical medicine | 99 | 99 | 71 | 71 | 69 | 66 | 64 | 64 | 48 | 46 |
Other health | 27 | 18 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 85 | 63 | 81 | 79 | 54 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All part-time students | 534 | 552 | 535 | 509 | 564 | 669 | 673 | 673 | 644 | 672 |
Male | 308 | 331 | 332 | 321 | 350 | 415 | 375 | 398 | 346 | 392 |
Female | 226 | 221 | 203 | 188 | 214 | 254 | 298 | 275 | 298 | 280 |
U.S. citizens and permanent residents | 394 | 389 | 353 | 322 | 357 | 414 | 450 | 440 | 492 | 522 |
Hispanic or Latino | 36 | 27 | 31 | 31 | 35 | 32 | 33 | 40 | 44 | 28 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 344 | 351 | 314 | 281 | 310 | 373 | 408 | 387 | 437 | 475 |
American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Asian | 50 | 39 | 38 | 24 | 26 | 34 | 19 | 19 | 27 | 24 |
Black or African American | 45 | 45 | 42 | 40 | 39 | 54 | 71 | 65 | 55 | 65 |
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
White | 239 | 254 | 225 | 209 | 231 | 272 | 306 | 293 | 341 | 372 |
More than one race | 8 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 11 |
Unknown ethnicity and race | 14 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 11 | 19 |
Temporary visa holders | 140 | 163 | 182 | 187 | 207 | 255 | 223 | 233 | 152 | 150 |
Science and engineering | 489 | 511 | 506 | 477 | 533 | 603 | 627 | 634 | 597 | 636 |
Science | 370 | 385 | 407 | 377 | 419 | 500 | 524 | 510 | 482 | 468 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 36 | 32 | 36 | 17 | 25 | 19 | 52 | 62 | 82 | 66 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 6 | 14 | 12 | 18 |
Computer and information sciences | 167 | 172 | 182 | 197 | 196 | 242 | 190 | 190 | 99 | 87 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 7 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 16 |
Mathematics and statistics | 41 | 42 | 41 | 38 | 49 | 46 | 43 | 38 | 57 | 49 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | 5 | 12 | 10 | 24 | 20 | 19 | 21 | 16 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 30 | 27 | 36 | 30 | 32 | 28 | 32 | 21 | 29 | 14 |
Physical sciences | 19 | 29 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 30 | 29 | 30 | 30 |
Social sciences | 70 | 74 | 72 | 47 | 72 | 97 | 137 | 126 | 139 | 172 |
Engineering | 119 | 126 | 99 | 100 | 114 | 103 | 103 | 124 | 115 | 168 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 21 | 32 | 22 | 22 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 28 | 29 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 42 | 37 | 31 | 29 | 43 | 26 | 44 | 68 | 47 | 60 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 35 |
Mechanical engineering | 40 | 46 | 36 | 47 | 46 | 53 | 37 | 29 | 35 | 38 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 16 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
Health | 45 | 41 | 29 | 32 | 31 | 66 | 46 | 39 | 47 | 36 |
Clinical medicine | 33 | 29 | 20 | 19 | 26 | 19 | 16 | 21 | 28 | 23 |
Other health | 12 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 47 | 30 | 18 | 19 | 13 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 119 | 109 | 113 | 119 | 124 | 122 | 111 | 93 | 140 | 135 |
Science and engineering | 115 | 105 | 113 | 119 | 121 | 119 | 105 | 93 | 139 | 133 |
Science | 83 | 75 | 69 | 85 | 94 | 88 | 68 | 65 | 94 | 101 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 23 | 20 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 13 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 32 | 28 | 35 | 53 | 55 | 36 | 26 | 24 | 27 | 32 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Mathematics and statistics | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 16 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Physical sciences | 20 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 18 | 17 |
Psychology | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
Social sciences | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 16 |
Engineering | 32 | 30 | 44 | 34 | 27 | 31 | 37 | 28 | 45 | 32 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 20 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 20 | 16 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 8 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 15 | 21 | 13 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Clinical medicine | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Other health | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All types and sources of support | 1,479 | 1,369 | 1,142 | 1,350 | 1,299 | 1,423 | 1,518 | 1,484 | 1,380 | 1,191 |
Fellowships | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Institutional | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Research assistantships | 312 | 319 | 299 | 337 | 347 | 406 | 361 | 317 | 362 | 286 |
Federal | 106 | 100 | 64 | 73 | 83 | 121 | 107 | 82 | 131 | 124 |
Institutional | 189 | 208 | 217 | 246 | 243 | 251 | 233 | 212 | 231 | 162 |
Nonfederal | 17 | 11 | 18 | 18 | 21 | 34 | 21 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
Teaching assistantships | 288 | 398 | 374 | 360 | 299 | 326 | 352 | 350 | 295 | 287 |
Federal | 0 | 0 | 18 | 20 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Institutional | 288 | 398 | 346 | 327 | 278 | 326 | 352 | 350 | 295 | 286 |
Nonfederal | 0 | 0 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other types of support | 879 | 651 | 469 | 653 | 653 | 691 | 805 | 817 | 723 | 618 |
Federal | 13 | 9 | 31 | 26 | 26 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 10 |
Institutional | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 37 | 25 | 22 | 18 | 21 |
Nonfederal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Personal resources | 862 | 641 | 436 | 623 | 621 | 652 | 774 | 780 | 695 | 587 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Science and engineering | 36 | 29 | 28 | 31 | 23 | 27 | 29 | 28 | 15 | 21 |
Science | 24 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 20 | 25 | 22 | 19 | 10 | 16 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 19 | 15 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 10 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Engineering | 12 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 5 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | 1 | 0 | 2 | 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 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All surveyed fields | 8 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 6 |
Science and engineering | 7 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 6 |
Science | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
Agricultural and veterinary sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Communication | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Family and consumer sciences and human sciences | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary studies | . | . | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Psychology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Social sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Engineering | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Biological, biomedical, and biosystems engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Chemical, petroleum, and chemical-related engineering | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Civil, environmental, transportation and related engineering fields | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering and operations research | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 |
Mechanical engineering | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Metallurgical, mining, materials and related engineering fields | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
Other engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clinical medicine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Other health | 1 | 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 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | ||||||||||
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All R&D fields | 43,126 | 51,877 | 50,050 | 47,187 | 39,888 | 26,097 | 27,815 | 24,870 | 23,342 | 24,764 | ||||||||||
Science | 23,168 | 31,815 | 25,400 | 26,697 | 22,937 | 16,218 | 15,695 | 14,140 | 14,071 | 14,540 | ||||||||||
Computer and information sciences | 8,681 | 18,214 | 10,163 | 10,468 | 9,812 | 7,181 | 6,048 | 5,091 | 5,253 | 5,407 | ||||||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1,077 | 1,054 | 1,009 | 1,111 | 366 | 207 | 306 | 213 | 517 | 479 | ||||||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,077 | 1,054 | 1,009 | 1,111 | 366 | 207 | 306 | 213 | 517 | 479 | ||||||||||
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences | 5,643 | 4,701 | 4,512 | 5,534 | 4,314 | 3,451 | 2,861 | 2,503 | 2,472 | 2,654 | ||||||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 3,805 | 3,066 | 2,608 | 3,110 | 2,296 | 1,902 | 1,473 | 1,497 | 1,623 | 1,905 | ||||||||||
Health sciences | 1,838 | 1,635 | 1,904 | 2,424 | 2,018 | 1,549 | 1,388 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,006 | 849 | 749 | ||||||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 803 | 782 | 1,029 | 902 | 976 | 613 | 796 | 718 | 835 | 1,056 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences | 3,345 | 3,367 | 4,003 | 4,389 | 3,935 | 3,060 | 4,056 | 3,413 | 2,568 | 3,022 | ||||||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemistry | 1,335 | 1,610 | 1,261 | 1,585 | 882 | 517 | 552 | 447 | 515 | 438 | ||||||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Physics | 2,010 | 1,757 | 2,742 | 2,804 | 2,282 | 2,543 | 3,504 | 2,966 | 2,053 | 2,584 | ||||||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 771 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Psychology | 1,100 | 750 | 711 | 635 | 902 | 431 | 170 | 155 | 328 | 315 | ||||||||||
Social sciences | 2,519 | 2,947 | 3,973 | 3,658 | 2,632 | 1,275 | 1,458 | 2,047 | 2,098 | 1,607 | ||||||||||
Anthropology | 97 | 98 | 93 | 159 | 103 | 93 | 118 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Economics | 125 | 171 | 219 | 187 | 33 | 52 | 37 | 23 | 18 | 40 | ||||||||||
Political science and government | 737 | 1,364 | 2,020 | 1,403 | 1,031 | 365 | 441 | 327 | 264 | 172 | ||||||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 421 | 545 | 572 | 788 | 897 | 545 | 457 | 699 | 578 | 538 | ||||||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,139 | 769 | 1,069 | 1,121 | 568 | 220 | 405 | 998 | 1,238 | 857 | ||||||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering | 15,096 | 15,643 | 19,781 | 16,000 | 11,933 | 7,972 | 7,915 | 7,696 | 6,575 | 7,204 | ||||||||||
Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Bioengineering and biomedical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 129 | 99 | 130 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Chemical engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Civil engineering | 2,694 | 3,011 | 6,228 | 3,934 | 3,152 | 1,482 | 1,881 | 1,389 | 1,009 | 833 | ||||||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 2,136 | 1,687 | 3,486 | 3,618 | 2,877 | 1,588 | 1,625 | 1,690 | 1,442 | 2,114 | ||||||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 4 | 32 | 48 | 28 | 41 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Mechanical engineering | 2,851 | 3,940 | 4,943 | 4,385 | 3,719 | 2,635 | 2,324 | 2,571 | 2,977 | 2,917 | ||||||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 212 | 306 | 212 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 7,411 | 6,973 | 5,076 | 3,940 | 2,015 | 1,952 | 1,649 | 1,834 | 1,147 | 1,340 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E | 4,862 | 4,419 | 4,869 | 4,490 | 5,018 | 1,907 | 4,205 | 3,034 | 2,696 | 3,020 | ||||||||||
Business management and business administration | 585 | 840 | 1,267 | 1,036 | 696 | 123 | 140 | 75 | 68 | 104 | ||||||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 10 | 9 | 3 | 21 | 3 | 39 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||
Education | 2,244 | 1,640 | 2,035 | 1,650 | 1,512 | 1,069 | 3,452 | 2,255 | 1,993 | 1,867 | ||||||||||
Humanities | 541 | 452 | 347 | 497 | 362 | 122 | 167 | 211 | 242 | 323 | ||||||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Social work | 337 | 230 | 330 | 791 | 785 | 289 | 264 | 341 | 335 | 435 | ||||||||||
Visual and performing arts | 59 | 71 | 30 | 26 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 1,086 | 1,177 | 857 | 469 | 1,657 | 251 | 182 | 87 | 54 | 291 |
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 | 43,126 | 26,871 | 1,158 | 11,848 | 2,689 | 560 | 0 | |||||||
Science | 23,168 | 16,182 | 399 | 5,435 | 798 | 354 | 0 | |||||||
Computer and information sciences | 8,681 | 7,560 | 0 | 950 | 171 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 1,077 | 673 | 45 | 334 | 25 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Atmospheric science and meteorology | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Geological and earth sciences | 1,077 | 673 | 45 | 334 | 25 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
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 | 5,643 | 3,320 | 335 | 1,601 | 236 | 151 | 0 | |||||||
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Biological and biomedical sciences | 3,805 | 2,572 | 23 | 1,002 | 91 | 117 | 0 | |||||||
Health sciences | 1,838 | 748 | 312 | 599 | 145 | 34 | 0 | |||||||
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Life sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mathematics and statistics | 803 | 676 | 0 | 122 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences | 3,345 | 2,574 | 0 | 475 | 296 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Astronomy and astrophysics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Chemistry | 1,335 | 1,057 | 0 | 259 | 19 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Materials science | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physics | 2,010 | 1,517 | 0 | 216 | 277 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Physical sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Psychology | 1,100 | 504 | 19 | 415 | 52 | 110 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences | 2,519 | 875 | 0 | 1,538 | 18 | 88 | 0 | |||||||
Anthropology | 97 | 39 | 0 | 40 | 18 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Economics | 125 | 107 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Political science and government | 737 | 187 | 0 | 550 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Sociology, demography, and population studies | 421 | 377 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social sciences, not elsewhere classified | 1,139 | 165 | 0 | 886 | 0 | 88 | 0 | |||||||
Sciences, not elsewhere classified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering | 15,096 | 8,783 | 548 | 4,243 | 1,501 | 21 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Civil engineering | 2,694 | 1,688 | 365 | 436 | 205 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Electrical, electronic, and communications engineering | 2,136 | 1,395 | 0 | 679 | 56 | 6 | 0 | |||||||
Industrial and manufacturing engineering | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Mechanical engineering | 2,851 | 1,655 | 0 | 971 | 210 | 15 | 0 | |||||||
Metallurgical and materials engineering | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Engineering not elsewhere classified | 7,411 | 4,045 | 183 | 2,153 | 1,030 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E | 4,862 | 1,906 | 211 | 2,170 | 390 | 185 | 0 | |||||||
Business management and business administration | 585 | 166 | 0 | 413 | 3 | 3 | 0 | |||||||
Communication and communications technologies | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Education | 2,244 | 1,026 | 163 | 795 | 226 | 34 | 0 | |||||||
Humanities | 541 | 231 | 0 | 261 | 49 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Law | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Social work | 337 | 146 | 48 | 41 | 102 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
Visual and performing arts | 59 | 10 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||
Non-S&E, not elsewhere classified | 1,086 | 327 | 0 | 602 | 10 | 147 | 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 | 26,871 | 27,145 | 27,618 | 26,199 | 22,386 | 20,462 | 20,269 | 19,132 | 19,069 | 20,994 | ||||||||||
DOD | 2,607 | 3,599 | 4,714 | 4,767 | 3,756 | 4,310 | 4,650 | 3,742 | 3,260 | 3,859 | ||||||||||
DOE | 3,330 | 3,259 | 2,325 | 1,631 | 1,067 | 542 | 471 | 766 | 516 | 679 | ||||||||||
HHS | 6,425 | 5,850 | 5,158 | 5,764 | 4,338 | 3,836 | 4,260 | 4,040 | 3,800 | 3,453 | ||||||||||
NASA | 253 | 109 | 213 | 166 | 116 | 179 | 156 | 72 | 61 | 28 | ||||||||||
NSF | 10,666 | 10,744 | 11,143 | 10,028 | 9,415 | 7,617 | 6,417 | 5,997 | 6,975 | 9,088 | ||||||||||
USDA | 103 | 236 | 4 | 56 | 150 | 136 | 138 | 63 | 257 | 322 | ||||||||||
Other | 3,487 | 3,348 | 4,061 | 3,787 | 3,544 | 3,842 | 4,177 | 4,452 | 4,200 | 3,565 |
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 | 1,045 | 193 | 852 | . | |||
2018 | 925 | 183 | 742 | . | |||
2017 | 840 | 182 | 658 | . | |||
2016 | 971 | 177 | 794 | . |
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 | 316 | 305 | 316 | 234 | 245 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 39 | 38 | 37 | 32 | 44 |
Computer and information sciences | 22 | 23 | 35 | 13 | 21 |
Engineering | 118 | 127 | 129 | 90 | 67 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 18 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 10 |
Health sciences | 19 | 19 | 15 | 8 | 5 |
Mathematics and statistics | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . |
Physical sciences | 60 | 51 | 50 | 60 | 73 |
Psychology | 13 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 11 |
Social sciences | 23 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 13 |
Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NOTE:
- . = data were not collected at this level or institution was not eligible to participate for this survey year.
- Data from the Survey of Science and Engineering Research Facilities is collected every two years.
Field | 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 | . | . | . | 110,000 | . |
Biological and biomedical sciences | . | . | . | 36,666 | . |
Physical sciences | . | . | . | 73,334 | . |
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 | 80,000 | 1,270 | 560 | 13,233 | 16,500 |
Agricultural sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 0 | 1,270 | 267 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 19,100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Engineering | 30,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Health sciences | 5,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Natural resources and conservation | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Physical sciences | 25,900 | 0 | 293 | 13,233 | 16,500 |
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.