The Division of Resource Studies at National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided online access to the statistical report entitled Doctorate Awards Declining in some Science and Engineering Fields. This report highlights the "findings from the 1997 Survey of Earned Doctorates, which provides characteristics of science and engineering research doctorate recipients from US universities, including...

This National Science Foundation document contains summary information and data collected in the fall of 1995. 47 data and technical tables (in Excel spreadsheet format) include national estimates of graduate enrollment and postdoctoral employment in all academic institutions in the US divided into a variety of demographic and academic categories. Data generated from this and previous reports are...

The National Science Foundation/Division of Science Resources Statistics recently released this brief report on the trends in enrollment of science and engineering graduate students from 1993 to the fall of 2000. This four-page report is accessible in hypertext format or .pdf, and it contains information on enrollment by field, citizenship, race/ethnicity, and postdoctoral appointees. Data...

The National Science Foundation has released the 2000 report of science and engineering doctorate awards (last reviewed in the January 9, 1998 Scout Report ). This site offers ten tables that can be downloaded as .pdf or Excel files. Each table contains varying information such as doctorates awarded by field of study and year of doctorate, or non-US citizens awarded doctorates in the sciences and...