Table 217.

Graduate enrollment in science and engineering programs in degree-granting institutions, by field of study: Fall 1991 through fall 2003

Field of engineering or science	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	Percent change, 1991 to 2003
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Total, all sciences and engineering	471,262	493,624	504,409	504,399	499,640	494,079	487,208	485,627	493,256	493,311	509,620	540,513	566,835	20.3
Engineering	113,576	118,003	116,872	113,024	107,201	103,224	101,148	100,038	101,691	104,112	109,493	119,668	127,375	12.1
Aerospace	4,120	4,036	3,940	3,715	3,343	3,208	3,083	3,137	3,349	3,407	3,451	3,685	4,048	-1.7
Agricultural	983	1,008	1,018	1,061	1,037	1,012	941	925	934	899	907	912	1,012	3.0
Biomedical	2,239	2,537	2,675	2,750	2,732	2,732	2,847	2,905	3,121	3,241	3,639	4,378	5,347	138.8
Chemical	7,127	7,397	7,554	7,639	7,452	7,408	7,288	7,093	6,883	7,056	6,913	7,414	7,516	5.5
Civil	17,398	19,572	19,583	19,925	19,218	18,528	17,193	16,517	16,226	16,451	16,665	17,713	18,838	8.3
Electrical	35,182	36,428	35,290	33,020	30,861	29,941	30,787	31,384	31,822	33,611	36,100	39,948	41,745	18.7
Engineering science	2,154	2,218	2,180	2,089	1,955	1,751	1,647	1,701	1,627	1,632	1,798	2,121	2,240	4.0
Industrial/manufacturing	12,676	13,525	13,905	13,992	13,475	12,675	11,957	11,221	11,803	12,119	12,940	14,033	14,295	12.8
Mechanical	17,730	18,637	18,477	17,761	16,363	15,509	15,045	14,696	14,956	15,235	15,852	17,139	18,440	4.0
Metallurgical/materials	5,160	5,512	5,410	5,228	4,956	4,747	4,688	4,680	4,481	4,377	4,721	4,992	5,154	-0.1
Mining	489	437	427	424	373	371	348	304	328	287	240	267	278	-43.1
Nuclear	1,282	1,286	1,306	1,246	1,154	980	868	821	830	792	801	795	885	-31.0
Petroleum	705	737	725	624	610	562	561	571	642	627	656	766	849	20.4
Other engineering	6,331	4,673	4,382	3,550	3,672	3,800	3,895	4,083	4,689	4,378	4,810	5,505	6,728	6.3
All sciences	357,686	375,621	387,537	391,375	392,439	390,855	386,060	385,589	391,565	389,199	400,127	420,845	439,460	22.9
Physical sciences	34,710	35,348	35,328	34,466	33,399	32,333	31,105	30,575	30,691	30,385	31,038	32,341	34,298	-1.2
Astronomy	829	869	880	973	912	874	778	820	832	888	916	990	1,080	30.3
Chemistry	19,407	19,929	20,131	19,803	19,570	19,334	18,774	18,482	18,416	18,105	18,366	19,045	20,049	3.3
Physics	14,081	14,122	13,841	13,162	12,425	11,728	11,147	10,809	10,869	10,841	11,248	11,701	12,555	-10.8
Other physical sciences	393	428	476	528	492	397	406	464	574	551	508	605	614	56.2
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean sciences	14,480	15,333	15,721	15,957	15,716	15,183	14,548	14,258	14,083	13,941	13,841	14,240	14,655	1.2
Atmospheric sciences	968	1,089	1,112	1,109	1,072	1,086	1,092	965	913	963	924	1,036	1,150	18.8
Geosciences	7,567	7,744	7,759	7,713	7,582	7,304	6,959	6,687	6,637	6,596	6,544	6,712	6,889	-9.0
Oceanography	2,386	2,530	2,627	2,870	2,723	2,615	2,479	2,562	2,624	2,668	2,585	2,618	2,695	13.0
Other environmental sciences	3,559	3,970	4,223	4,265	4,339	4,178	4,018	4,044	3,909	3,714	3,788	3,874	3,921	10.2
Mathematical sciences	19,952	20,355	20,000	19,573	18,504	18,008	16,719	16,485	16,257	15,650	16,651	18,163	19,465	-2.4
Mathematics and applied mathematics	17,206	17,404	16,945	16,457	15,386	14,948	14,027	13,827	13,521	12,823	13,569	14,702	15,569	-9.5
Statistics	2,746	2,951	3,055	3,116	3,118	3,060	2,692	2,658	2,736	2,827	3,082	3,461	3,896	41.9
Computer sciences	34,610	36,325	36,213	34,158	33,458	34,626	35,991	38,027	42,478	47,350	52,196	55,269	53,678	55.1
Life sciences	121,849	129,010	136,948	143,560	148,286	148,948	148,486	149,634	151,345	148,080	150,252	159,452	170,513	39.9
Agricultural sciences	11,506	11,841	11,950	12,242	12,768	12,301	12,203	12,168	12,312	12,023	12,235	12,698	13,197	14.7
Biological sciences	51,778	54,180	56,292	58,033	58,344	57,749	56,705	56,695	56,959	56,282	57,639	61,133	64,684	24.9
Anatomy	1,051	991	961	1,018	850	878	856	785	749	795	735	951	908	-13.6
Biochemistry	5,201	5,376	5,489	5,615	5,562	5,275	5,102	5,148	5,101	4,966	4,917	5,190	5,552	6.7
Biology	13,292	13,874	14,330	14,208	14,280	14,611	14,646	14,277	13,989	13,407	13,352	13,822	14,720	10.7
Biometry/epidemiology	2,032	2,365	2,658	2,710	2,810	3,005	2,896	3,514	3,704	3,615	3,817	4,071	4,439	118.5
Biophysics	697	751	780	794	845	833	748	737	710	751	877	953	1,032	48.1
Botany	2,694	2,689	2,714	2,748	2,295	2,213	2,082	2,042	1,974	1,904	1,921	1,973	1,901	-29.4
Cell biology	2,809	3,132	3,440	3,829	4,174	4,207	4,300	4,379	4,637	4,820	4,911	5,375	5,722	103.7
Ecology	1,180	1,301	1,410	1,566	1,702	1,632	1,640	1,670	1,704	1,762	1,888	1,967	2,230	89.0
Entomology/parasitology	1,171	1,193	1,247	1,263	1,241	1,234	1,161	1,168	1,145	1,104	1,170	1,191	1,206	3.0
Genetics	1,520	1,639	1,785	1,699	1,712	1,741	1,776	1,727	1,783	1,712	1,841	1,909	2,073	36.4
Microbiology, immunology, and virology	4,928	4,972	5,021	5,094	5,026	4,912	4,805	4,773	4,815	4,814	4,798	5,208	5,256	6.7
Nutrition	4,164	4,159	4,388	4,791	5,071	4,918	4,604	4,486	4,508	4,413	4,429	4,539	4,695	12.8
Pathology	1,449	1,456	1,575	1,707	1,670	1,656	1,674	1,580	1,580	1,531	1,637	1,613	1,541	6.3
Pharmacology	2,432	2,532	2,651	2,839	2,710	2,663	2,597	2,730	2,757	2,963	3,140	3,234	3,357	38.0
Physiology	2,332	2,317	2,372	2,378	2,540	2,377	2,298	2,151	2,083	2,015	1,967	2,076	2,328	-0.2
Zoology	2,191	2,139	2,042	2,028	1,958	1,808	1,627	1,586	1,523	1,445	1,411	1,349	1,301	-40.6
Other biosciences	2,635	3,294	3,429	3,746	3,898	3,786	3,893	3,942	4,197	4,265	4,828	5,712	6,423	143.8
Health fields	58,565	62,989	68,706	73,285	77,174	78,898	79,578	80,771	82,074	79,775	80,378	85,621	92,632	58.2
Medical fields	11,707	12,594	14,233	15,065	15,538	15,363	15,470	16,643	17,276	16,407	17,363	19,246	20,773	77.4
Other health fields	46,858	50,395	54,473	58,220	61,636	63,535	64,108	64,128	64,798	63,368	63,015	66,375	71,859	53.4
Dentistry	1,016	1,121	1,228	1,298	1,338	1,388	1,491	1,518	1,467	1,430	1,494	1,446	1,654	62.8
Nursing	22,012	23,213	24,781	26,997	28,405	27,388	26,861	25,591	25,074	23,457	23,609	24,715	26,648	21.1
Pharmaceutical sciences	2,968	2,792	2,859	2,887	2,808	2,846	2,710	2,882	3,422	3,611	3,679	4,538	5,448	83.6
Speech pathology/audiology	8,945	9,791	10,740	11,356	11,982	12,857	13,212	13,198	13,600	13,636	13,193	13,368	13,694	53.1
Veterinary sciences	894	942	924	922	975	997	1,224	1,288	1,314	1,367	1,476	1,691	2,069	131.4
Other health related	11,023	12,536	13,941	14,760	16,128	18,059	18,610	19,651	19,921	19,867	19,564	20,617	22,346	102.7
Psychology	51,343	53,484	54,557	54,554	53,641	53,122	53,126	52,557	51,727	50,466	50,467	51,165	52,025	1.3
Psychology, general	19,555	18,802	18,962	18,356	12,519	12,787	13,098	12,733	12,798	12,488	12,488	12,609	13,203	-32.5
Clinical psychology	10,834	12,090	12,526	12,684	17,647	16,833	17,249	17,098	16,238	15,624	15,837	15,159	15,562	43.6
Other psychology	20,954	22,592	23,069	23,514	23,475	23,502	22,779	22,726	22,691	22,354	22,142	23,397	23,260	11.0
Social sciences	80,742	85,766	88,770	89,107	89,435	88,635	86,085	84,053	84,984	83,327	85,682	90,215	94,826	17.4
Agricultural economics	2,364	2,522	2,415	2,289	2,338	2,117	2,043	1,995	2,014	2,079	2,161	2,187	2,296	-2.9
Anthropology	6,731	7,123	7,361	7,665	7,693	7,773	7,560	7,577	7,633	7,626	7,491	7,481	7,806	16.0
Economics (except agricultural)	12,707	13,252	13,214	12,913	12,673	12,080	11,097	10,701	10,562	10,748	11,408	12,009	12,307	-3.1
Geography	3,760	4,102	4,378	4,502	4,371	4,331	4,287	4,326	4,250	4,036	4,304	4,383	4,654	23.8
History and philosophy of science	337	360	369	387	401	409	443	508	557	532	571	663	677	100.9
Linguistics	3,425	3,277	3,321	3,279	3,194	3,156	3,068	2,935	2,799	2,674	2,744	2,875	3,028	-11.6
Political science	31,707	33,797	35,076	34,317	34,298	33,252	32,083	30,828	31,372	31,131	31,805	34,934	36,855	16.2
Sociology	8,393	9,011	9,425	9,498	9,564	9,425	9,413	9,058	8,966	8,652	8,812	8,946	9,127	8.7
Sociology/anthropology	899	979	935	987	941	923	948	857	741	745	808	719	773	-14.0
Other social sciences	10,419	11,343	12,276	13,270	13,962	15,169	15,143	15,268	16,090	15,104	15,578	16,018	17,303	66.1

NOTE: The survey on which this table is based includes institutions in other jurisdictions. 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, 1991 through 2003. (This table was prepared April 2006.)