National Science Foundation's SUPPORTED FIELDS

(Based on required disciplines for fellowship funding)

CHEMISTRY
5230     Analytical
5250     Bio-inorganic
5240     Bio-organic
5260     Biophysical
9994     Environmental
5290     Inorganic
5330     Organic
5350     Physical
5331     Polymer
5370     Theoretical
5399     Chemistry, other (specify)

COMPUTER AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (CISE)

7240      Artificial Intelligence 
              (including Robotics and Expert Systems)
7210      Computer Science - Languages and Systems
7200      Computer Science - Theory
7270      Computer Systems Design 
              (including Signal Processing)
7230      Database Systems
7261      Graphics
7260      Human Computer Interaction
7250      Information Technology and Organizations
7290      Networks and Communications
7280      Scientific Computing
7220      Software Engineering
7299      CISE, other (specify)

ENGINEERING
6210      Aeronautical and Aerospace
6240      Agricultural
6250      Bioengineering and Biomedical
6330      Chemical
6350      Civil
6388      Computer Engineering
6390      Electrical and Electronic
6741      Energy
6470      Engineering Mechanics
6532      Engineering Science
9996      Environmental
6580      Industrial
6476      Materials
6620      Mechanical
6660      Metallurgical
6740      Nuclear
6245      Ocean
6716      Petroleum
6480      Polymer
6585      Systems Engineering
6799      Engineering, other (specify)

GEOSCIENCES
5710      Aeronomy
5720      Atmospheric Chemistry
5750      Chemical Oceanography
5770      Climate Dynamics
5740      Geochemistry
5780      Geology
5800      Geophysics
5810      Hydrologic Sciences
5820      Large-scale Dynamics Meteorology
5830      Magnetospheric Physics
5840      Marine Geology and Geophysics
5850      Mesoscale Dynamic Meteorology
5870      Paleoclimate
5860      Paleontology
5880      Physical Meteorology
7799      Physical Oceanography
5890      Solar-Terrestrial
5889      Geosciences, other (specify)

LIFE SCIENCES
0399      Agriculture5
0140      Agronomy5
4510      Anatomy6
4530      Animal Behavior
4531      Animal Science5
0999      Biochemistry6
1870      Biological Oceanography
1899      Biology
1299      Biophysics
1599      Botany  (including Plant Physiology)
1820      Cell Biology6
1860      Computational Biology
1840      Developmental Biology
1830      Ecology
4570      Entomology
9992      Environmental Sciences
1850      Evolutionary Biology
4590      Fish and Wildlife5
0250      Forestry5
2499      Genetics6
0300      Horticulture5
3293      Immunology6
1874      Marine Biology
3299      Microbiology6
1880      Molecular Biology6
1829      Neurosciences6
1890      Nutrition5
2970      Pharmacology6
3899      Physiology6
1545      Plant Pathology
4540      Soil Science
1822      Structural Biology
3290      Virology6
4699      Zoology
2299      Life Sciences, other (specify)6

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
7010      Algebra or Number Theory
7030      Analysis
7050      Applications of Mathematics 
              (including Biometrics and Biostatistics)
7110      Geometry
7130      Logic or Foundations of Mathematics
7140      Operations Research
7150      Probability and Statistics
7170      Topology
7199      Mathematics, other (specify)

PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
4999      Astronomy
4930      Astrophysics
8040      Atomic and Molecular
8050      Condensed Matter Physics
8160      Nuclear
8180      Optics
8110      Particle Physics
8200      Physics of Fluids
8210      Plasma
8220      Solid State
8260      Theoretical Physics
8299      Physics, other (specify)

PSYCHOLOGY
4125      Cognitive
4120      Cognitive Neuroscience
4130      Developmental
4150      Experimental or Comparative
4189      Industrial/Organizational
4155      Neuropsychology
4165      Perception and Psychophysics
4170      Personality and Individual Differences
4158      Physiological
4162      Quantitative
4190      Social
4199      Psychology, other (specify)7

SOCIAL SCIENCES
0693      Biological Anthropology
0695      Cultural Anthropology8
0694      Linguistic Anthropology
0696      Medical Anthropology
0697      Physical Anthropology
0699      Anthropology, other (specify)
0610      Archaeology8
9818      Demography
8599      Economics  
              (Business Administration not eligible)
8799      Geography
9099      History of Science
9499      International Relations5
9299      Linguistics
9098      Philosophy of Science
9399      Political Science
9799      Public Policy5
9599      Sociology (Social Work not eligible)
9699      Urban and Regional Planning5
9899      Social Sciences, other (specify)8

 

 

Note: For further clarification of research areas supported by the NSF, see the National Science Foundation Guide to Programs
(http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf0203).

5 Warning: NSF Fellowships are awarded only for study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees. Practice-oriented master's programs are not eligible for support in this program. PhD programs must be science-based.

6 Warning: Research with disease-related goals is not eligible for support by NSF. Applicants in this field will be judged ineligible if their Proposed Plan of Research has disease-related goals and/or is insufficiently focused on basic research questions.

7 Warning: Clinical and counseling psychology are generally not supported in this program; NSF Fellowship applicants in this field will be judged ineligible if their Proposed Plan of Research focuses on mental disease, abnormality or malfunction.

8 Warning: NSF Fellowship Applicants in these fields may be judged ineligible if the Proposed Plan of Research does not demonstrate a scientific approach.