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Table 267. Master's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2001-02

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                                                |                            Total                        |                               Males                     |                          Females
                                                |_________________________________________________________|_________________________________________________________|_________________________________________________________
Major field of study                            |       | White, |Black,| His- | Asian/ |American|Nonresi-|       | White, |Black,| His- | Asian/ |American|Nonresi-|       | White, |Black,| His- | Asian/ |American|Nonresi-
                                                | Total |   non- | non- |panic |Pacific |Indian/ |   dent | Total |   non- | non- |panic |Pacific |Indian/ |   dent | Total |   non- | non- |panic |Pacific |Indian/ |   dent
                                                |       |Hispanic| His- |      |Islander| Alaska |  alien |       |Hispanic| His- |      |Islander| Alaska |  alien |       |Hispanic| His- |      |Islander| Alaska |  alien
                                                |       |        |panic |      |        | Native |        |       |        |panic |      |        | Native |        |       |        |panic |      |        | Native |
________________________________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
1                                               |     2 |      3 |    4 |    5 |      6 |      7 |      8 |     9 |     10 |   11 |   12 |     13 |     14 |     15 |    16 |     17 |   18 |   19 |     20 |     21 |     22
________________________________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
   All fields, total ...........................|482,118| 327,643|40,369|22,387|  25,412|   2,624|  63,683|199,120| 128,775|11,795| 8,430|  11,746|     994|  37,380|282,998| 198,868|28,574|13,957|  13,666|   1,630|  26,303
                                                |_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
Agriculture and natural resources ..............|  4,503|   3,444|   122|   116|     139|      27|     655|  2,340|   1,803|    61|    70|      50|      19|     337|  2,163|   1,641|    61|    46|      89|       8|     318
Architecture and related services ..............|  4,566|   2,797|   164|   220|     267|      14|   1,104|  2,606|   1,660|    76|   122|     117|      11|     620|  1,960|   1,137|    88|    98|     150|       3|     484
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies .....|  1,541|     924|   130|   125|     106|      23|     233|    600|     382|    36|    62|      39|       6|      75|    941|     542|    94|    63|      67|      17|     158
Biological and biomedical sciences .............|  6,937|   4,674|   342|   274|     701|      32|     914|  2,996|   2,086|   104|   131|     298|      17|     360|  3,941|   2,588|   238|   143|     403|      15|     554
Business .......................................|119,725|  75,843|10,297| 4,983|   8,215|     507|  19,880| 70,463|  46,553| 3,886| 2,835|   4,657|     314|  12,218| 49,262|  29,290| 6,411| 2,148|   3,558|     193|   7,662
                                                |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Communications, journalism, and related programs|  5,510|   3,512|   532|   189|     251|      19|   1,007|  1,906|   1,294|   116|    59|      79|       5|     353|  3,604|   2,218|   416|   130|     172|      14|     654
Communications technologies ....................|    470|     256|    30|    11|      20|       2|     151|    263|     160|    12|     6|       9|       1|      75|    207|      96|    18|     5|      11|       1|      76
Computer and information sciences ..............| 17,173|   5,735|   883|   349|   2,401|      38|   7,767| 11,447|   4,184|   479|   240|   1,416|      23|   5,105|  5,726|   1,551|   404|   109|     985|      15|   2,662
Construction trades ............................|      9|       2|     1|     2|       0|       0|       4|      8|       2|     1|     2|       0|       0|       3|      1|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       1
Education ......................................|135,189| 106,715|12,982| 7,678|   3,039|     942|   3,833| 31,907|  25,270| 2,807| 1,812|     683|     231|   1,104|103,282|  81,445|10,175| 5,866|   2,356|     711|   2,729
                                                |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Engineering ....................................| 24,908|  10,536|   740|   709|   2,311|      56|  10,556| 19,620|   8,407|   478|   509|   1,714|      40|   8,472|  5,288|   2,129|   262|   200|     597|      16|   2,084
Engineering technologies\1\ ....................|  2,140|   1,318|   133|    89|     116|      10|     474|  1,635|   1,039|    86|    68|      75|       8|     359|    505|     279|    47|    21|      41|       2|     115
English language and literature/letters ........|  7,097|   5,805|   346|   225|     242|      43|     436|  2,270|   1,901|    74|    77|      78|      17|     123|  4,827|   3,904|   272|   148|     164|      26|     313
Family and consumer sciences ...................|  1,683|   1,227|   178|    60|      63|      12|     143|    203|     138|    18|     9|       3|       3|      32|  1,480|   1,089|   160|    51|      60|       9|     111
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics |  3,075|   1,722|    59|   370|     123|      10|     791|    958|     574|    18|    97|      36|       6|     227|  2,117|   1,148|    41|   273|      87|       4|     564
                                                |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Health professions and related clinical sciences| 43,560|  33,074| 3,303| 1,778|   3,183|     234|   1,988|  9,588|   6,774|   577|   455|     953|      74|     755| 33,972|  26,300| 2,726| 1,323|   2,230|     160|   1,233
Legal professions and studies ..................|  4,053|   1,304|   176|   167|     211|      11|   2,184|  2,360|     799|    82|    86|     114|       6|   1,273|  1,693|     505|    94|    81|      97|       5|     911
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,     |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
   and humanities ..............................|  2,754|   2,156|   214|   119|      72|      20|     173|  1,030|     813|    66|    47|      32|       7|      65|  1,724|   1,343|   148|    72|      40|      13|     108
Library science.................................|  5,113|   4,280|   259|   212|     152|      31|     179|    932|     767|    35|    41|      30|       3|      56|  4,181|   3,513|   224|   171|     122|      28|     123
Mathematics and statistics .....................|  3,350|   1,670|   122|    84|     226|       9|   1,239|  1,913|     944|    53|    54|     123|       8|     731|  1,437|     726|    69|    30|     103|       1|     508
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Mechanics and repair technologies ..............|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0
Military technologies ..........................|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies ................|  3,708|   2,589|   273|   178|     183|      30|     455|  1,336|     914|    67|    67|      60|       7|     221|  2,372|   1,675|   206|   111|     123|      23|     234
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies .|  2,580|   2,110|   184|    68|      39|       9|     170|  1,287|   1,036|    94|    41|      13|       3|     100|  1,293|   1,074|    90|    27|      26|       6|      70
Philosophy and religious studies ...............|  1,371|   1,097|    60|    36|      65|       4|     109|    840|     656|    37|    22|      43|       3|      79|    531|     441|    23|    14|      22|       1|      30
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Physical sciences and science technologies .....|  5,012|   3,051|   149|   148|     263|      21|   1,380|  3,135|   1,914|    74|    91|     146|      11|     899|  1,877|   1,137|    75|    57|     117|      10|     481
Precision production ...........................|      2|       0|     0|     1|       1|       0|       0|      1|       0|     0|     0|       1|       0|       0|      1|       0|     0|     1|       0|       0|       0
Psychology .....................................| 16,357|  12,073| 1,927|   993|     648|     122|     594|  3,814|   2,836|   404|   237|     139|      36|     162| 12,543|   9,237| 1,523|   756|     509|      86|     432
Public administration and social service        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
   professions .................................| 25,448|  16,889| 4,386| 1,743|     882|     228|   1,320|  6,505|   4,145| 1,010|   446|     215|      53|     636| 18,943|  12,744| 3,376| 1,297|     667|     175|     684
Security and protective services................|  2,935|   2,119|   482|   159|      59|      25|      91|  1,613|   1,222|   205|    88|      29|      12|      57|  1,322|     897|   277|    71|      30|      13|      34
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Social sciences and history ....................| 14,112|   8,660| 1,022|   670|     570|      80|   3,110|  6,941|   4,328|   403|   295|     227|      38|   1,650|  7,171|   4,332|   619|   375|     343|      42|   1,460
  Social sciences ..............................| 11,692|   6,624|   901|   569|     526|      63|   3,009|  5,605|   3,185|   344|   235|     209|      33|   1,599|  6,087|   3,439|   557|   334|     317|      30|   1,410
  History ......................................|  2,420|   2,036|   121|   101|      44|      17|     101|  1,336|   1,143|    59|    60|      18|       5|      51|  1,084|     893|    62|    41|      26|      12|      50
Theology and religious vocations ...............|  4,909|   3,537|   333|   163|     276|       8|     592|  3,043|   2,161|   177|   105|     165|       5|     430|  1,866|   1,376|   156|    58|     111|       3|     162
Transportation and materials moving ............|    709|     604|    32|    31|      11|       3|      28|    633|     541|    29|    28|       8|       3|      24|     76|      63|     3|     3|       3|       0|       4
Visual and performing arts .....................| 11,595|   7,906|   508|   437|     577|      54|   2,113|  4,912|   3,464|   230|   228|     194|      24|     772|  6,683|   4,442|   278|   209|     383|      30|   1,341
Not classified by field of study ...............|     24|      14|     0|     0|       0|       0|      10|     15|       8|     0|     0|       0|       0|       7|      9|       6|     0|     0|       0|       0|       3
________________________________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________

\1\Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repairers," which are listed separately.

NOTE: Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of degree, and sex were used to estimate race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the IPEDS Fall survey: "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agriculture, agriculture operations and related sciences and Natural resources and conservation; and "Business" includes Business management, marketing, and related support services, and Personal and culinary services. Some data have been revised from previously published figures

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2002. (This table was prepared November 2004.)