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Despite recent concerns about enrollments
in graduate science and engineering programs at U.S. universities, graduate enrollments
continue to increase in many fields, according to the latest National Science
Foundation (NSF) data. In 2006, enrollments in the biological sciences, earth
sciences, mathematical sciences, physical sciences, psychology, engineering, and
the social sciences continued to increase. Overall graduate science and engineering
(S&E) enrollment increased for the eighth year in a row. Only graduate enrollments
in computer sciences and agricultural sciences declined. In 2006, foreign student
enrollment increased by 2.1 percent after declining the previous two years, and
U.S. citizen and permanent resident enrollment continued to increase for the sixth
year in a row.
NSF data show that the number of postdocs in S&E fields
reached a new high of 34,813 in 2006, nearly 60 percent of them foreign visa holders
and the remainder U.S. citizens or permanent residents. - January 10, 2008
 
Please go to the Commission on Professionals
in Science and Technology, a AAAS participatiing organization, for a complete
guide to data on scientists and engineers. Detailed historical data and data on
S&E degrees, S&E employment trends, and enrollment in S&E degress
programs are also collected by the National
Science Foundation's Division of Science Resources Statistics. NSF collects
data on graduate
students, science
and engineering degrees, international
human resources trends, and the science
and engineering workforce. Back to Main Guide to R&D Funding
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