Figure H-3. Science and engineering faculty, by sex and highest degree: 2003
NOTE: Includes full, associate, and assistant professors and instructors.
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics, Scientists and Engineers Statistical Data System (SESTAT).
Male science and engineering faculty are more likely than their female counterparts to have doctoral degrees.
- More than half (56 percent) of male S&E faculty have doctoral degrees, compared with 40 percent of female S&E faculty.
- Thirty-five percent of female S&E faculty, compared with 20 percent of male S&E faculty, have a master's as the highest degree.
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This figure will be updated as new data become available. This figure was last updated December 2006.