Table 311.90.

Graduate enrollment in science and engineering programs in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, by discipline: Fall 1999 through fall 2011

Discipline of engineering or science	1999		2000		2001		2002		2003		2004		2005		2006		20071	20081	20091	20101	20111
1	2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10	11	12	13	14
Total, all science and      engineering disciplines	493,256	2	493,311	2	509,607	2	540,404	2	567,121	2	574,463	2	582,226	2	597,643	2	619,499	631,489	631,645	632,652	626,820
Engineering	101,691		104,112		109,493		119,668		127,377		123,566		120,565		123,041		131,676	137,856	144,677	149,241	146,501
Aerospace	3,349		3,407		3,451		3,685		4,048		4,089		4,170		4,482		4,616	4,902	5,266	5,540	5,691
Agricultural	986		943		947		952		1,058		1,041		1,059		1,073		1,126	1,233	1,303	1,457	1,656
Architecture3	†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		4,601	5,905	6,804	6,795	3,111
Biomedical	3,069		3,197		3,599		4,338		5,301		5,807		6,067		6,482		6,904	7,339	7,904	8,497	9,175
Chemical	6,883		7,056		6,913		7,414		7,516		7,452		7,173		7,261		7,584	7,892	8,188	8,668	8,828
Civil3	16,226		16,451		16,665		17,713		18,890		18,561		18,114		17,802		16,071	16,931	18,638	19,559	19,596
Electrical	31,822		33,611		36,100		39,948		41,763		38,995		37,450		38,265		40,588	41,164	41,218	41,336	41,580
Engineering science	1,627		1,632		1,798		2,121		2,240		2,198		1,951		2,046		1,806	2,099	2,168	2,071	2,101
Industrial/manufacturing	11,803		12,119		12,940		14,033		14,313		13,852		13,650		13,829		14,474	15,692	15,825	15,205	14,494
Mechanical	14,956		15,235		15,852		17,139		18,393		17,852		17,373		17,919		18,347	19,585	21,243	22,509	21,883
Metallurgical/materials	4,481		4,377		4,721		4,992		5,131		5,059		5,160		5,268		5,314	5,539	5,863	6,274	6,649
Mining	328		287		240		267		278		308		279		244		222	290	312	419	500
Nuclear	830		792		801		795		885		971		1,013		1,099		1,180	1,201	1,243	1,459	1,499
Petroleum	642		627		656		766		849		845		808		813		1,014	1,009	1,190	1,295	1,301
Other engineering	4,689		4,378		4,810		5,505		6,712		6,536		6,298		6,458		7,829	7,075	7,512	8,157	8,437
Physical sciences	30,691		30,385		31,038		32,341		34,298		35,761		36,375		36,901		36,824	37,319	38,149	38,973	39,694
Astronomy	832		888		916		990		1,080		1,119		1,191		1,211		1,232	1,275	1,409	1,331	1,345
Chemistry	18,416		18,105		18,366		19,045		20,049		20,776		21,101		21,351		21,298	21,574	22,094	22,436	22,802
Physics	10,869		10,841		11,248		11,701		12,555		13,298		13,472		13,722		13,816	13,862	14,060	14,507	14,829
Other physical sciences	574		551		508		605		614		568		611		617		478	608	586	699	718
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean      sciences	14,083		13,941		13,841		14,240		14,620		15,131		14,836		14,920		14,100	14,389	14,839	15,655	15,820
Atmospheric sciences	913		963		924		1,036		1,150		1,086		1,146		1,079		1,178	1,400	1,355	1,455	1,513
Geosciences	6,637		6,596		6,544		6,712		6,889		7,358		7,212		7,177		7,020	7,089	7,539	8,251	8,361
Oceanography	2,624		2,668		2,585		2,618		2,695		2,801		2,760		2,770		2,615	2,634	2,633	2,556	2,680
Other environmental sciences	3,909		3,714		3,788		3,874		3,886		3,886		3,718		3,894		3,287	3,266	3,312	3,393	3,266
Family and consumer science/      human science4	†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		2,780	3,549	3,794	4,191	4,509
Mathematical sciences	16,257		15,650		16,651		18,163		19,465		19,931		20,210		20,815		20,975	21,400	22,226	23,136	23,801
Mathematics and applied      mathematics	13,521		12,823		13,569		14,702		15,569		15,964		16,106		16,649		16,528	16,449	17,204	17,589	18,157
Statistics	2,736		2,827		3,082		3,461		3,896		3,967		4,104		4,166		4,447	4,951	5,022	5,547	5,644
Multidisciplinary/      interdisciplinary studies4	†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		4,484	5,559	6,557	7,944	6,537
Neuroscience5	†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		1,584	2,012	2,356	2,798	4,117
Communication4	†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		7,303	8,444	9,418	9,825	11,029
Computer sciences	42,478		47,350		52,196		55,269		53,696		50,016		47,978		47,653		48,246	49,553	51,161	51,546	51,234
Life sciences	151,345		148,080		150,252		159,356		170,374		178,600		185,553		194,313		188,760	189,033	174,464	166,704	157,431
Agricultural sciences	12,312		12,023		12,235		12,698		13,197		13,445		13,123		13,016		13,528	14,153	15,200	15,656	16,129
Biological sciences	56,959		56,282		57,639		61,088		64,701		66,565		68,479		69,941		71,932	72,666	73,304	74,928	75,423
Anatomy	749		795		735		906		908		897		938		961		867	764	833	849	762
Biochemistry	5,101		4,966		4,917		5,190		5,552		5,612		5,814		5,824		5,853	5,473	5,271	5,308	5,183
Biology	13,989		13,407		13,352		13,822		14,770		15,458		15,681		16,463		15,898	16,514	16,840	17,210	16,911
Biometry/epidemiology	3,704		3,615		3,817		4,071		4,439		4,674		4,805		4,789		5,694	5,971	5,739	6,398	6,786
Biophysics	710		751		877		953		1,032		1,180		1,183		1,203		1,193	1,084	1,042	1,072	1,016
Botany	1,974		1,904		1,921		1,973		1,901		1,831		1,860		1,850		1,821	1,803	1,831	1,863	1,915
Cell biology	4,637		4,820		4,911		5,375		5,689		5,830		6,177		6,553		6,839	7,096	7,153	7,047	6,905
Ecology	1,704		1,762		1,888		1,967		2,230		2,185		2,165		2,162		2,026	2,026	1,746	1,828	1,713
Entomology/parasitology	1,145		1,104		1,170		1,191		1,206		1,241		1,126		1,114		1,078	1,079	1,079	1,116	1,119
Genetics	1,783		1,712		1,841		1,909		2,073		2,129		2,155		2,154		2,120	2,120	2,242	2,333	2,403
Microbiology, immunology,      and virology	4,815		4,814		4,798		5,208		5,256		5,375		5,401		5,324		5,212	5,054	4,968	4,896	5,031
Nutrition	4,508		4,413		4,429		4,539		4,695		4,771		4,817		5,042		4,890	5,177	5,330	5,548	5,345
Pathology	1,580		1,531		1,637		1,613		1,541		1,557		1,593		1,612		1,580	1,618	1,450	1,376	1,313
Pharmacology	2,757		2,963		3,140		3,234		3,357		3,122		3,114		2,985		3,013	3,005	3,163	3,101	3,053
Physiology	2,083		2,015		1,967		2,076		2,328		2,409		2,399		2,416		2,738	2,863	2,866	2,879	3,000
Zoology	1,523		1,445		1,411		1,349		1,301		1,236		1,264		1,145		1,108	925	875	896	1,060
Other biosciences	4,197		4,265		4,828		5,712		6,423		7,058		7,987		8,344		10,002	10,094	10,876	11,208	11,908
Health fields6	82,074		79,775		80,378		85,570		92,476		98,590		103,951		111,356		103,300	102,214	85,960	76,120	65,879
Medical fields5	17,276		16,407		17,363		19,166		20,574		20,866		21,414		23,441		22,751	23,939	24,125	25,699	26,634
Other health fields7	64,798		63,368		63,015		66,404		71,902		77,724		82,537		87,915		80,549	78,275	61,835	50,421	39,245
Dentistry	1,467		1,430		1,494		1,446		1,654		1,946		1,748		1,614		1,688	1,643	1,770	1,661	1,764
Nursing	25,074		23,457		23,609		24,715		26,649		29,781		31,670		35,846		31,803	30,471	21,355	12,107	7,269
Pharmaceutical sciences	3,422		3,611		3,679		4,538		5,493		5,218		6,091		6,315		5,066	4,251	4,443	4,291	4,056
Speech pathology/audiology	13,600		13,636		13,193		13,368		13,694		14,045		14,821		14,847		16,229	15,968	14,641	14,645	14,203
Veterinary sciences	1,314		1,367		1,476		1,691		1,719		1,732		1,970		2,067		2,371	2,478	2,170	2,211	1,894
Other health related	19,921		19,867		19,564		20,646		22,693		25,002		26,237		27,226		23,392	23,464	17,456	15,506	10,059
Psychology7	51,727		50,466		50,454		51,152		52,162		54,126		57,282		57,653		59,617	58,991	56,184	53,419	54,486
Social sciences	84,984		83,327		85,682		90,215		95,129		97,332		99,427		102,347		103,150	103,384	107,820	109,220	111,661
Agricultural economics	2,014		2,079		2,161		2,187		2,318		2,195		2,127		2,158		1,989	2,132	2,222	2,180	2,095
Economics (except agricultural)	10,562		10,748		11,408		12,009		12,316		12,318		11,805		12,132		12,597	12,971	13,993	14,317	14,920
Geography	4,250		4,036		4,304		4,383		4,721		4,809		4,800		4,750		4,660	4,745	4,810	5,059	5,188
Linguistics	2,799		2,674		2,744		2,875		3,028		2,941		3,187		3,074		2,879	3,095	3,170	3,132	3,219
Political science	31,372		31,131		31,805		34,934		36,880		39,023		40,780		41,784		41,349	40,871	43,919	45,045	49,660
Sociology and anthropology	17,340		17,023		17,111		17,146		17,689		17,539		17,616		18,022		18,453	18,988	18,666	18,740	18,365
Other social sciences	16,647		15,636		16,149		16,681		18,177		18,507		19,112		20,427		21,223	20,582	21,040	20,747	18,214

†Not applicable.

1 Data for 2007 and later years may not be comparable to previous years' data because some surveyed fields were reclassified, new fields were added, and the survey was redesigned to improve coverage and coding.

2 Because three fields were added to the survey in 2007, previous years' totals for all fields are not comparable to the totals for 2007 and later years.

3 Before 2007, architecture was included under civil engineering instead of being reported as a separate field of engineering.

4 Three science fields—family and consumer science/human science, multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary studies, and communication—were added to the survey in 2007; some of the data may have been reported under other fields prior to 2007.

5 Before 2007, neuroscience was included under the health/medical field of neurology instead of being reported as a separate field of science.

6 Excludes enrollments in practitioner-oriented programs, which have the primary purpose of providing the knowledge and skills required for credentials or licensure to practice in a medical or other health field.

7 For 2008 and later years, enrollment declines in psychology and in other health fields such as nursing may be due to more rigorous follow-up with institutions to exclude enrollments in practitioner-oriented graduate degree programs. Examples of excluded programs are those leading to DNP, PsyD, and DPT degrees.

NOTE: The survey on which this table is based includes institutions in other jurisdictions, including Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF-NIH Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, 1999 through 2011. (This table was prepared February 2014.)