Underrepresented minorities include Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, and American Indians or Alaska Natives. Hispanic or Latino may be any race; race categories exclude Hispanic or Latino origin. Data are not available for all S&E-related fields for 1993–99.

S&E enterprise depends heavily on recipients of higher education degrees in S&E fields (see Glossary section for list of S&E fields). The number of degrees in S&E fields across all degree levels increased from 561,000 in 2000 to 1,087,000 in 2019, an increase in percentage share of S&E degrees from

All S&E highest degree holders includes professional degree holders not reported separately. The 2-year and precollege institutions include 2-year colleges and community colleges or technical institutes and preschool, elementary, middle, and secondary schools. The 4-year institutions include 4-year

According to the most recent estimates, the U.S. workforce includes about 17 million skilled technical workers, that is, those who are employed in occupations that require S&E expertise and technical... do foreign-born individuals (16% versus 18%).

BLS does not make projections for S&E occupations as a group, nor does it do so for some of the S&E and S&E-related occupational categories as defined

do so through institutions in their home state. In S&E fields, distance education... and engineering at the master’s level; and in medical and health sciences and engineering at the doctoral level. Although no nationally