Table 233.

Graduate enrollment in science and engineering programs in degree-granting institutions, by discipline division: Fall 1994 through fall 2006

Discipline of engineering or science	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	Percent change, 1994 to 2006
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Total, all sciences and engineering	504,399	499,640	494,079	487,208	485,627	493,256	493,311	509,607	540,404	567,121	574,463	582,226	597,643	18.5
Engineering	113,024	107,201	103,224	101,148	100,038	101,691	104,112	109,493	119,668	127,377	123,566	120,565	123,041	8.9
Aerospace	3,715	3,343	3,208	3,083	3,137	3,349	3,407	3,451	3,685	4,048	4,089	4,170	4,482	20.6
Agricultural	1,061	1,037	1,012	941	975	986	943	947	952	1,058	1,041	1,059	1,073	1.1
Biomedical	2,750	2,732	2,732	2,847	2,855	3,069	3,197	3,599	4,338	5,301	5,807	6,067	6,482	135.7
Chemical	7,639	7,452	7,408	7,288	7,093	6,883	7,056	6,913	7,414	7,516	7,452	7,173	7,261	-4.9
Civil	19,925	19,218	18,528	17,193	16,517	16,226	16,451	16,665	17,713	18,890	18,561	18,114	17,802	-10.7
Electrical	33,020	30,861	29,941	30,787	31,384	31,822	33,611	36,100	39,948	41,763	38,995	37,450	38,265	15.9
Engineering science	2,089	1,955	1,751	1,647	1,701	1,627	1,632	1,798	2,121	2,240	2,198	1,951	2,046	-2.1
Industrial/manufacturing	13,992	13,475	12,675	11,957	11,221	11,803	12,119	12,940	14,033	14,313	13,852	13,650	13,829	-1.2
Mechanical	17,761	16,363	15,509	15,045	14,696	14,956	15,235	15,852	17,139	18,393	17,852	17,373	17,919	0.9
Metallurgical/materials	5,228	4,956	4,747	4,688	4,680	4,481	4,377	4,721	4,992	5,131	5,059	5,160	5,268	0.8
Mining	424	373	371	348	304	328	287	240	267	278	308	279	244	-42.5
Nuclear	1,246	1,154	980	868	821	830	792	801	795	885	971	1,013	1,099	-11.8
Petroleum	624	610	562	561	571	642	627	656	766	849	845	808	813	30.3
Other engineering	3,550	3,672	3,800	3,895	4,083	4,689	4,378	4,810	5,505	6,712	6,536	6,298	6,458	81.9
All sciences	391,375	392,439	390,855	386,060	385,589	391,565	389,199	400,114	420,736	439,744	450,897	461,661	474,602	21.3
Physical sciences	34,466	33,399	32,333	31,105	30,575	30,691	30,385	31,038	32,341	34,298	35,761	36,375	36,901	7.1
Astronomy	973	912	874	778	820	832	888	916	990	1,080	1,119	1,191	1,211	24.5
Chemistry	19,803	19,570	19,334	18,774	18,482	18,416	18,105	18,366	19,045	20,049	20,776	21,101	21,351	7.8
Physics	13,162	12,425	11,728	11,147	10,809	10,869	10,841	11,248	11,701	12,555	13,298	13,472	13,722	4.3
Other physical sciences	528	492	397	406	464	574	551	508	605	614	568	611	617	16.9
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	15,957	15,716	15,183	14,548	14,258	14,083	13,941	13,841	14,240	14,620	15,131	14,836	14,920	-6.5
Atmospheric sciences	1,109	1,072	1,086	1,092	965	913	963	924	1,036	1,150	1,086	1,146	1,079	-2.7
Geosciences	7,713	7,582	7,304	6,959	6,687	6,637	6,596	6,544	6,712	6,889	7,358	7,212	7,177	-6.9
Oceanography	2,870	2,723	2,615	2,479	2,562	2,624	2,668	2,585	2,618	2,695	2,801	2,760	2,770	-3.5
Other environmental sciences	4,265	4,339	4,178	4,018	4,044	3,909	3,714	3,788	3,874	3,886	3,886	3,718	3,894	-8.7
Mathematical sciences	19,573	18,504	18,008	16,719	16,485	16,257	15,650	16,651	18,163	19,465	19,931	20,210	20,815	6.3
Mathematics and applied mathematics	16,457	15,386	14,948	14,027	13,827	13,521	12,823	13,569	14,702	15,569	15,964	16,106	16,649	1.2
Statistics	3,116	3,118	3,060	2,692	2,658	2,736	2,827	3,082	3,461	3,896	3,967	4,104	4,166	33.7
Computer sciences	34,158	33,458	34,626	35,991	38,027	42,478	47,350	52,196	55,269	53,696	50,016	47,978	47,653	39.5
Life sciences	143,560	148,286	148,948	148,486	149,634	151,345	148,080	150,252	159,356	170,374	178,600	185,553	194,313	35.4
Agricultural sciences	12,242	12,768	12,301	12,203	12,168	12,312	12,023	12,235	12,698	13,197	13,445	13,123	13,016	6.3
Biological sciences	58,033	58,344	57,749	56,705	56,695	56,959	56,282	57,639	61,088	64,701	66,565	68,479	69,941	20.5
Anatomy	1,018	850	878	856	785	749	795	735	906	908	897	938	961	-5.6
Biochemistry	5,615	5,562	5,275	5,102	5,148	5,101	4,966	4,917	5,190	5,552	5,612	5,814	5,824	3.7
Biology	14,208	14,280	14,611	14,646	14,277	13,989	13,407	13,352	13,822	14,770	15,458	15,681	16,463	15.9
Biometry/epidemiology	2,710	2,810	3,005	2,896	3,514	3,704	3,615	3,817	4,071	4,439	4,674	4,805	4,789	76.7
Biophysics	794	845	833	748	737	710	751	877	953	1,032	1,180	1,183	1,203	51.5
Botany	2,748	2,295	2,213	2,082	2,042	1,974	1,904	1,921	1,973	1,901	1,831	1,860	1,850	-32.7
Cell biology	3,829	4,174	4,207	4,300	4,379	4,637	4,820	4,911	5,375	5,689	5,830	6,177	6,553	71.1
Ecology	1,566	1,702	1,632	1,640	1,670	1,704	1,762	1,888	1,967	2,230	2,185	2,165	2,162	38.1
Entomology/parasitology	1,263	1,241	1,234	1,161	1,168	1,145	1,104	1,170	1,191	1,206	1,241	1,126	1,114	-11.8
Genetics	1,699	1,712	1,741	1,776	1,727	1,783	1,712	1,841	1,909	2,073	2,129	2,155	2,154	26.8
Microbiology, immunology, and virology	5,094	5,026	4,912	4,805	4,773	4,815	4,814	4,798	5,208	5,256	5,375	5,401	5,324	4.5
Nutrition	4,791	5,071	4,918	4,604	4,486	4,508	4,413	4,429	4,539	4,695	4,771	4,817	5,042	5.2
Pathology	1,707	1,670	1,656	1,674	1,580	1,580	1,531	1,637	1,613	1,541	1,557	1,593	1,612	-5.6
Pharmacology	2,839	2,710	2,663	2,597	2,730	2,757	2,963	3,140	3,234	3,357	3,122	3,114	2,985	5.1
Physiology	2,378	2,540	2,377	2,298	2,151	2,083	2,015	1,967	2,076	2,328	2,409	2,399	2,416	1.6
Zoology	2,028	1,958	1,808	1,627	1,586	1,523	1,445	1,411	1,349	1,301	1,236	1,264	1,145	-43.5
Other biosciences	3,746	3,898	3,786	3,893	3,942	4,197	4,265	4,828	5,712	6,423	7,058	7,987	8,344	122.7
Health fields	73,285	77,174	78,898	79,578	80,771	82,074	79,775	80,378	85,570	92,476	98,590	103,951	111,356	51.9
Medical fields	15,065	15,538	15,363	15,470	16,643	17,276	16,407	17,363	19,166	20,574	20,866	21,414	23,441	55.6
Other health fields	58,220	61,636	63,535	64,108	64,128	64,798	63,368	63,015	66,404	71,902	77,724	82,537	87,915	51.0
Dentistry	1,298	1,338	1,388	1,491	1,518	1,467	1,430	1,494	1,446	1,654	1,946	1,748	1,614	24.3
Nursing	26,997	28,405	27,388	26,861	25,591	25,074	23,457	23,609	24,715	26,649	29,781	31,670	35,846	32.8
Pharmaceutical sciences	2,887	2,808	2,846	2,710	2,882	3,422	3,611	3,679	4,538	5,493	5,218	6,091	6,315	118.7
Speech pathology/audiology	11,356	11,982	12,857	13,212	13,198	13,600	13,636	13,193	13,368	13,694	14,045	14,821	14,847	30.7
Veterinary sciences	922	975	997	1,224	1,288	1,314	1,367	1,476	1,691	1,719	1,732	1,970	2,067	124.2
Other health related	14,760	16,128	18,059	18,610	19,651	19,921	19,867	19,564	20,646	22,693	25,002	26,237	27,226	84.5
Psychology	54,554	53,641	53,122	53,126	52,557	51,727	50,466	50,454	51,152	52,162	54,126	57,282	57,653	5.7
Psychology, general	18,356	12,519	12,787	13,098	12,733	12,798	12,488	12,488	12,609	13,118	13,771	14,283	13,947	-24.0
Clinical psychology	12,684	17,647	16,833	17,249	17,098	16,238	15,429	15,638	14,969	15,364	16,089	16,620	16,622	31.0
Other psychology	23,514	23,475	23,502	22,779	22,726	22,691	22,549	22,328	23,574	23,680	24,266	26,379	27,084	15.2
Social sciences	89,107	89,435	88,635	86,085	84,053	84,984	83,327	85,682	90,215	95,129	97,332	99,427	102,347	14.9
Agricultural economics	2,289	2,338	2,117	2,043	1,995	2,014	2,079	2,161	2,187	2,318	2,195	2,127	2,158	-5.7
Anthropology	7,665	7,693	7,773	7,560	7,577	7,633	7,626	7,491	7,481	7,789	7,826	7,750	8,150	6.3
Economics (except agricultural)	12,913	12,673	12,080	11,097	10,701	10,562	10,748	11,408	12,009	12,316	12,318	11,805	12,132	-6.0
Geography	4,502	4,371	4,331	4,287	4,326	4,250	4,036	4,304	4,383	4,721	4,809	4,800	4,750	5.5
History and philosophy of science	387	401	409	443	508	557	532	571	663	737	994	965	968	150.1
Linguistics	3,279	3,194	3,156	3,068	2,935	2,799	2,674	2,744	2,875	3,028	2,941	3,187	3,074	-6.3
Political science	34,317	34,298	33,252	32,083	30,828	31,372	31,131	31,805	34,934	36,880	39,023	40,780	41,784	21.8
Sociology	9,498	9,564	9,425	9,413	9,058	8,966	8,652	8,812	8,946	9,127	8,874	9,108	9,035	-4.9
Sociology/anthropology	987	941	923	948	857	741	745	808	719	773	839	848	837	-15.2
Other social sciences	13,270	13,962	15,169	15,143	15,268	16,090	15,104	15,578	16,018	17,440	17,513	18,147	19,459	46.6

NOTE: The survey on which this table is based includes institutions in other jurisdictions, including Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Some data have been revised from previously published figures. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies, Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, 1994 through 2006. (This table was prepared September 2008.)