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Higher Education in Science and Engineering
This report examines trends in U.S. S&E higher education within a global context. It contains information on U.S. higher education institutions, including S&E degree awards, student demographics, cost, and debt. S&E fields have grown at all degree levels. Yet many groups of Americans remain
September 04, 2019
Full-time graduate students in S&E primarily supported by the federal government, by degree field and agency: 2021
DOD is Department of Defense. DOE is Department of Energy. HHS is Department of Health and Human Services, excluding NIH. NASA is National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NIH is National Institutes of Health. NSF is National Science Foundation. USDA is Department of Agriculture. S&E includes
March 13, 2024
Higher Education in Science and Engineering
Higher Education in Science and Engineering examines U.S. trends within a global context. It discusses degree awards, certificates, student demographics, cost, and debt. S&E degrees continue to increase both in numbers and as shares of total degrees. Representation of women among S&E degree
February 22, 2022
S&E doctorate holders employed in academia, by type of position, degree field, and citizenship: 2017
September 26, 2019
Employed women with their highest degree in an S&E field, by race or ethnicity and broad occupation: 2019
Hispanic or Latino may be any race; race categories exclude those of Hispanic or Latino origin. Detail may not add to total because of rounding. Other race or ethnicity includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and more than one race. Non-S&E occupations
August 31, 2021
S&E articles in social sciences, by region, country, or economy: 2000–18
Article counts refer to publications from selected journals and conference papers in S&E from Scopus. Articles are classified by their year of publication and are assigned to a region, country, or economy on the basis of the institutional address(es) of author(s) listed in the article. Articles are... do not exist. EU = European Union. a Beginning in 2006, Serbia and Montenegro represented individual countries. b Serbia and Montenegro represented a single country for data purposes from 1992 to 2006. Its economic status is that of 2005. c West Bank and Gaza Strip
December 17, 2019
S&E articles in mathematics and statistics, by region, country, or economy: 2000–18
Article counts refer to publications from selected journals and conference papers in S&E from Scopus. Articles are classified by their year of publication and are assigned to a region, country, or economy on the basis of the institutional address(es) of author(s) listed in the article. Articles are... do not exist. EU = European Union. a Beginning in 2006, Serbia and Montenegro represented individual countries. b Serbia and Montenegro represented a single country for data purposes from 1992 to 2006. Its economic status is that of 2005. c West Bank and Gaza Strip
December 17, 2019
S&E articles in materials science, by region, country, or economy: 2000–18
Article counts refer to publications from selected journals and conference papers in S&E from Scopus. Articles are classified by their year of publication and are assigned to a region, country, or economy on the basis of the institutional address(es) of author(s) listed in the article. Articles are... do not exist. EU = European Union. a Beginning in 2006, Serbia and Montenegro represented individual countries. b Serbia and Montenegro represented a single country for data purposes from 1992 to 2006. Its economic status is that of 2005. c West Bank and Gaza Strip
December 17, 2019
S&E articles in health sciences, by region, country, or economy: 2000–18
Article counts refer to publications from selected journals and conference papers in S&E from Scopus. Articles are classified by their year of publication and are assigned to a region, country, or economy on the basis of the institutional address(es) of author(s) listed in the article. Articles are... do not exist. EU = European Union. a Beginning in 2006, Serbia and Montenegro represented individual countries. b Serbia and Montenegro represented a single country for data purposes from 1992 to 2006. Its economic status is that of 2005. c West Bank and Gaza Strip
December 17, 2019
S&E articles in astronomy and astrophysics, by region, country, or economy: 2000–18
Article counts refer to publications from selected journals and conference papers in S&E from Scopus. Articles are classified by their year of publication and are assigned to a region, country, or economy on the basis of the institutional address(es) of author(s) listed in the article. Articles are... do not exist. EU = European Union. a Beginning in 2006, Serbia and Montenegro represented individual countries. b Serbia and Montenegro represented a single country for data purposes from 1992 to 2006. Its economic status is that of 2005. c West Bank and Gaza Strip
December 17, 2019
S&E articles in agricultural sciences, by region, country, or economy: 2000–18
Article counts refer to publications from selected journals and conference papers in S&E from Scopus. Articles are classified by their year of publication and are assigned to a region, country, or economy on the basis of the institutional address(es) of author(s) listed in the article. Articles are... do not exist. EU = European Union. a Beginning in 2006, Serbia and Montenegro represented individual countries. b Serbia and Montenegro represented a single country for data purposes from 1992 to 2006. Its economic status is that of 2005. c West Bank and Gaza Strip
December 17, 2019
Count of S&E articles in physics, by region, country, or economy: 2000–18
Article counts refer to publications from selected journals and conference papers in S&E from Scopus. Articles are classified by their year of publication and are assigned to a region, country, or economy on the basis of the institutional address(es) of author(s) listed in the article. Articles are... do not exist. EU = European Union. a Beginning in 2006, Serbia and Montenegro represented individual countries. b Serbia and Montenegro represented a single country for data purposes from 1992 to 2006. Its economic status is that of 2005. c West Bank and Gaza Strip
December 17, 2019
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