Table 233.

Graduate enrollment in science and engineering programs in degree-granting institutions, by discipline division: Fall 1995 through fall 2007

Discipline of engineering or science	1995		1996		1997		1998		1999		2000		2001		2002		2003		2004		2005		2006		20071
1	2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12		13		14
Total, all sciences and         engineering	499,640	2	494,079	2	487,208	2	485,627	2	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
Engineering	107,201		103,224		101,148		100,038		101,691		104,112		109,493		119,668		127,377		123,566		120,565		123,041		131,676
Aerospace	3,343		3,208		3,083		3,137		3,349		3,407		3,451		3,685		4,048		4,089		4,170		4,482		4,616
Agricultural	1,037		1,012		941		975		986		943		947		952		1,058		1,041		1,059		1,073		1,126
Architecture3	†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		4,601
Biomedical	2,732		2,732		2,847		2,855		3,069		3,197		3,599		4,338		5,301		5,807		6,067		6,482		6,904
Chemical	7,452		7,408		7,288		7,093		6,883		7,056		6,913		7,414		7,516		7,452		7,173		7,261		7,584
Civil3	19,218		18,528		17,193		16,517		16,226		16,451		16,665		17,713		18,890		18,561		18,114		17,802		16,071
Electrical	30,861		29,941		30,787		31,384		31,822		33,611		36,100		39,948		41,763		38,995		37,450		38,265		40,588
Engineering science	1,955		1,751		1,647		1,701		1,627		1,632		1,798		2,121		2,240		2,198		1,951		2,046		1,806
Industrial/manufacturing	13,475		12,675		11,957		11,221		11,803		12,119		12,940		14,033		14,313		13,852		13,650		13,829		14,474
Mechanical	16,363		15,509		15,045		14,696		14,956		15,235		15,852		17,139		18,393		17,852		17,373		17,919		18,347
Metallurgical/materials	4,956		4,747		4,688		4,680		4,481		4,377		4,721		4,992		5,131		5,059		5,160		5,268		5,314
Mining	373		371		348		304		328		287		240		267		278		308		279		244		222
Nuclear	1,154		980		868		821		830		792		801		795		885		971		1,013		1,099		1,180
Petroleum	610		562		561		571		642		627		656		766		849		845		808		813		1,014
Other engineering	3,672		3,800		3,895		4,083		4,689		4,378		4,810		5,505		6,712		6,536		6,298		6,458		7,829
Physical sciences	33,399		32,333		31,105		30,575		30,691		30,385		31,038		32,341		34,298		35,761		36,375		36,901		36,824
Astronomy	912		874		778		820		832		888		916		990		1,080		1,119		1,191		1,211		1,232
Chemistry	19,570		19,334		18,774		18,482		18,416		18,105		18,366		19,045		20,049		20,776		21,101		21,351		21,298
Physics	12,425		11,728		11,147		10,809		10,869		10,841		11,248		11,701		12,555		13,298		13,472		13,722		13,816
Other physical sciences	492		397		406		464		574		551		508		605		614		568		611		617		478
Earth, atmospheric, and ocean    sciences	15,716		15,183		14,548		14,258		14,083		13,941		13,841		14,240		14,620		15,131		14,836		14,920		14,100
Atmospheric sciences	1,072		1,086		1,092		965		913		963		924		1,036		1,150		1,086		1,146		1,079		1,178
Geosciences	7,582		7,304		6,959		6,687		6,637		6,596		6,544		6,712		6,889		7,358		7,212		7,177		7,020
Oceanography	2,723		2,615		2,479		2,562		2,624		2,668		2,585		2,618		2,695		2,801		2,760		2,770		2,615
Other environmental sciences	4,339		4,178		4,018		4,044		3,909		3,714		3,788		3,874		3,886		3,886		3,718		3,894		3,287
Family and consumer science/    human science4	†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		2,780
Mathematical sciences	18,504		18,008		16,719		16,485		16,257		15,650		16,651		18,163		19,465		19,931		20,210		20,815		20,975
Mathematics and applied      mathematics	15,386		14,948		14,027		13,827		13,521		12,823		13,569		14,702		15,569		15,964		16,106		16,649		16,528
Statistics	3,118		3,060		2,692		2,658		2,736		2,827		3,082		3,461		3,896		3,967		4,104		4,166		4,447
Multidisciplinary/    interdisciplinary studies4	†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		4,484
Neuroscience5	†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		1,584
Communication4	†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		†		7,303
Computer sciences	33,458		34,626		35,991		38,027		42,478		47,350		52,196		55,269		53,696		50,016		47,978		47,653		48,246
Life sciences	148,286		148,948		148,486		149,634		151,345		148,080		150,252		159,356		170,374		178,600		185,553		194,313		188,760
Agricultural sciences	12,768		12,301		12,203		12,168		12,312		12,023		12,235		12,698		13,197		13,445		13,123		13,016		13,528
Biological sciences	58,344		57,749		56,705		56,695		56,959		56,282		57,639		61,088		64,701		66,565		68,479		69,941		71,932
Anatomy	850		878		856		785		749		795		735		906		908		897		938		961		867
Biochemistry	5,562		5,275		5,102		5,148		5,101		4,966		4,917		5,190		5,552		5,612		5,814		5,824		5,853
Biology	14,280		14,611		14,646		14,277		13,989		13,407		13,352		13,822		14,770		15,458		15,681		16,463		15,898
Biometry/epidemiology	2,810		3,005		2,896		3,514		3,704		3,615		3,817		4,071		4,439		4,674		4,805		4,789		5,694
Biophysics	845		833		748		737		710		751		877		953		1,032		1,180		1,183		1,203		1,193
Botany	2,295		2,213		2,082		2,042		1,974		1,904		1,921		1,973		1,901		1,831		1,860		1,850		1,821
Cell biology	4,174		4,207		4,300		4,379		4,637		4,820		4,911		5,375		5,689		5,830		6,177		6,553		6,839
Ecology	1,702		1,632		1,640		1,670		1,704		1,762		1,888		1,967		2,230		2,185		2,165		2,162		2,026
Entomology/parasitology	1,241		1,234		1,161		1,168		1,145		1,104		1,170		1,191		1,206		1,241		1,126		1,114		1,078
Genetics	1,712		1,741		1,776		1,727		1,783		1,712		1,841		1,909		2,073		2,129		2,155		2,154		2,120
Microbiology, immunology,        and virology	5,026		4,912		4,805		4,773		4,815		4,814		4,798		5,208		5,256		5,375		5,401		5,324		5,212
Nutrition	5,071		4,918		4,604		4,486		4,508		4,413		4,429		4,539		4,695		4,771		4,817		5,042		4,890
Pathology	1,670		1,656		1,674		1,580		1,580		1,531		1,637		1,613		1,541		1,557		1,593		1,612		1,580
Pharmacology	2,710		2,663		2,597		2,730		2,757		2,963		3,140		3,234		3,357		3,122		3,114		2,985		3,013
Physiology	2,540		2,377		2,298		2,151		2,083		2,015		1,967		2,076		2,328		2,409		2,399		2,416		2,738
Zoology	1,958		1,808		1,627		1,586		1,523		1,445		1,411		1,349		1,301		1,236		1,264		1,145		1,108
Other biosciences	3,898		3,786		3,893		3,942		4,197		4,265		4,828		5,712		6,423		7,058		7,987		8,344		10,002
Health fields	77,174		78,898		79,578		80,771		82,074		79,775		80,378		85,570		92,476		98,590		103,951		111,356		103,300
Medical fields5	15,538		15,363		15,470		16,643		17,276		16,407		17,363		19,166		20,574		20,866		21,414		23,441		22,751
Other health fields	61,636		63,535		64,108		64,128		64,798		63,368		63,015		66,404		71,902		77,724		82,537		87,915		80,549
Dentistry	1,338		1,388		1,491		1,518		1,467		1,430		1,494		1,446		1,654		1,946		1,748		1,614		1,688
Nursing	28,405		27,388		26,861		25,591		25,074		23,457		23,609		24,715		26,649		29,781		31,670		35,846		31,803
Pharmaceutical sciences	2,808		2,846		2,710		2,882		3,422		3,611		3,679		4,538		5,493		5,218		6,091		6,315		5,066
Speech pathology/audiology	11,982		12,857		13,212		13,198		13,600		13,636		13,193		13,368		13,694		14,045		14,821		14,847		16,229
Veterinary sciences	975		997		1,224		1,288		1,314		1,367		1,476		1,691		1,719		1,732		1,970		2,067		2,371
Other health related	16,128		18,059		18,610		19,651		19,921		19,867		19,564		20,646		22,693		25,002		26,237		27,226		23,392
Psychology	53,641		53,122		53,126		52,557		51,727		50,466		50,454		51,152		52,162		54,126		57,282		57,653		59,617
Social sciences	89,435		88,635		86,085		84,053		84,984		83,327		85,682		90,215		95,129		97,332		99,427		102,347		103,150
Agricultural economics	2,338		2,117		2,043		1,995		2,014		2,079		2,161		2,187		2,318		2,195		2,127		2,158		1,989
Economics (except agricultural)	12,673		12,080		11,097		10,701		10,562		10,748		11,408		12,009		12,316		12,318		11,805		12,132		12,597
Geography	4,371		4,331		4,287		4,326		4,250		4,036		4,304		4,383		4,721		4,809		4,800		4,750		4,660
Linguistics	3,194		3,156		3,068		2,935		2,799		2,674		2,744		2,875		3,028		2,941		3,187		3,074		2,879
Political science	34,298		33,252		32,083		30,828		31,372		31,131		31,805		34,934		36,880		39,023		40,780		41,784		41,349
Sociology and anthropology	18,198		18,121		17,921		17,492		17,340		17,023		17,111		17,146		17,689		17,539		17,616		18,022		18,453
Other social sciences	14,363		15,578		15,586		15,776		16,647		15,636		16,149		16,681		18,177		18,507		19,112		20,427		21,223

†Not applicable.

1 Data for 2007 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 2007 total.

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.

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, 1995 through 2007. (This table was prepared September 2009.)