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Postdoctorates

Analysis

Retirement Experiences of U.S.-Trained Doctoral Scientists and Engineers: Findings from the 2023 Survey of Doctorate Recipients

January 23, 2025

Data

Survey of Doctorate Recipients: 2023

January 23, 2025

Data

Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering: Fall 2023

January 21, 2025

Data Highlights

Over the past 20 years, most of the growth in the number of doctorates earned by both men and women has been in science and engineering (S&E) fields

The number of female doctorate recipients in S&E fields increased by 94%, compared with a 62% increase in the number of male S&E doctorate recipients

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53%

Among U.S. citizens and permanent residents, the percentage of doctorates earned by women in 2023

818,095

Total number of full and part-time graduate students enrolled in science, engineering, and health programs in 2023

Underrepresented minorities have increased their overall representation over a 5-year period among all U.S. citizen and permanent resident graduate students regardless of degree level or enrollment status

Underrepresented minorities constituted 15% of all full-time doctoral students in 2017 and 18.4% in 2021.

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In the News

Report

Advancing Research Capacity at High Research Activity Historically Black Colleges and Universities

NCSES data are cited in a congressional report from the National Science and Technology Council on boosting research capacity at historically Black colleges and universities with high research activity status.

National Science and Technology Council

May 2024

Article

U.S. Scientists Are Leaving Academia. That’s Bad News for Drug Companies

Our data are referenced on the number of postdocs in the biological and biomedical fields between 2018 and 2022.

CNN

April 1, 2024