NSF - Supported Fields of Specialization

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 at http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?nsf03009.

5 Warning: 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; applicants in this field will be judged ineligible if their Proposed Plan of Research focuses on mental disease, abnormality or malfunction.

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