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Table 287. | Bachelor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2006-07 |
Field of study | Total | Males | Females | ||||||||||||||||||
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Total | White | Black | His- panic | Asian/ Pacific Islander | American Indian/ Alaska Native | Non- resi- dent alien | Total | White | Black | His- panic | Asian/ Pacific Islander | American Indian/ Alaska Native | Non- resi- dent alien | Total | White | Black | His- panic | Asian/ Pacific Islander | American Indian/ Alaska Native | Non- resi- dent alien | |
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 | 1,524,092 | 1,099,850 | 146,653 | 114,936 | 105,297 | 11,455 | 45,901 | 649,570 | 480,558 | 49,685 | 44,750 | 47,582 | 4,505 | 22,490 | 874,522 | 619,292 | 96,968 | 70,186 | 57,715 | 6,950 | 23,411 |
Agriculture and natural resources | 23,133 | 20,116 | 680 | 859 | 901 | 214 | 363 | 12,309 | 10,961 | 290 | 399 | 383 | 111 | 165 | 10,824 | 9,155 | 390 | 460 | 518 | 103 | 198 |
Architecture and related services | 9,717 | 6,983 | 455 | 948 | 867 | 51 | 413 | 5,393 | 3,965 | 264 | 541 | 393 | 33 | 197 | 4,324 | 3,018 | 191 | 407 | 474 | 18 | 216 |
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies | 8,194 | 4,486 | 1,095 | 1,175 | 1,045 | 194 | 199 | 2,572 | 1,399 | 352 | 363 | 335 | 69 | 54 | 5,622 | 3,087 | 743 | 812 | 710 | 125 | 145 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 75,151 | 50,120 | 5,950 | 4,651 | 11,665 | 539 | 2,226 | 29,951 | 20,797 | 1,577 | 1,807 | 4,727 | 209 | 834 | 45,200 | 29,323 | 4,373 | 2,844 | 6,938 | 330 | 1,392 |
Business | 327,531 | 223,221 | 37,054 | 24,724 | 24,361 | 2,174 | 15,997 | 166,350 | 120,356 | 13,947 | 11,099 | 11,789 | 995 | 8,164 | 161,181 | 102,865 | 23,107 | 13,625 | 12,572 | 1,179 | 7,833 |
Communications, journalism, and related programs | 74,783 | 56,929 | 7,528 | 5,031 | 3,329 | 452 | 1,514 | 26,444 | 20,491 | 2,537 | 1,698 | 1,049 | 147 | 522 | 48,339 | 36,438 | 4,991 | 3,333 | 2,280 | 305 | 992 |
Communications technologies | 3,637 | 2,614 | 346 | 306 | 251 | 19 | 101 | 2,565 | 1,879 | 212 | 231 | 164 | 12 | 67 | 1,072 | 735 | 134 | 75 | 87 | 7 | 34 |
Computer and information sciences | 42,170 | 27,626 | 5,066 | 2,835 | 3,937 | 275 | 2,431 | 34,342 | 23,600 | 3,262 | 2,257 | 3,121 | 205 | 1,897 | 7,828 | 4,026 | 1,804 | 578 | 816 | 70 | 534 |
Construction trades | 129 | 113 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 122 | 108 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Education | 105,641 | 89,868 | 6,739 | 5,111 | 2,043 | 909 | 971 | 22,516 | 18,979 | 1,661 | 979 | 434 | 185 | 278 | 83,125 | 70,889 | 5,078 | 4,132 | 1,609 | 724 | 693 |
Engineering | 67,092 | 45,994 | 3,307 | 4,092 | 8,980 | 316 | 4,403 | 54,745 | 38,574 | 2,299 | 3,181 | 6,934 | 248 | 3,509 | 12,347 | 7,420 | 1,008 | 911 | 2,046 | 68 | 894 |
Engineering technologies1 | 14,588 | 11,125 | 1,396 | 854 | 700 | 141 | 372 | 13,114 | 10,194 | 1,135 | 738 | 617 | 112 | 318 | 1,474 | 931 | 261 | 116 | 83 | 29 | 54 |
English language and literature/letters | 55,122 | 43,722 | 4,148 | 3,669 | 2,648 | 378 | 557 | 17,475 | 14,248 | 1,008 | 1,164 | 763 | 136 | 156 | 37,647 | 29,474 | 3,140 | 2,505 | 1,885 | 242 | 401 |
Family and consumer sciences | 21,400 | 16,334 | 2,312 | 1,237 | 1,052 | 195 | 270 | 2,594 | 1,885 | 342 | 158 | 145 | 27 | 37 | 18,806 | 14,449 | 1,970 | 1,079 | 907 | 168 | 233 |
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics | 20,275 | 14,420 | 828 | 3,366 | 1,133 | 129 | 399 | 6,173 | 4,522 | 214 | 928 | 358 | 41 | 110 | 14,102 | 9,898 | 614 | 2,438 | 775 | 88 | 289 |
Health professions and related clinical sciences | 101,810 | 75,579 | 11,413 | 6,069 | 5,993 | 777 | 1,979 | 14,325 | 10,146 | 1,483 | 1,043 | 1,182 | 120 | 351 | 87,485 | 65,433 | 9,930 | 5,026 | 4,811 | 657 | 1,628 |
Legal professions and studies | 3,596 | 2,290 | 661 | 356 | 239 | 22 | 28 | 1,008 | 684 | 135 | 101 | 80 | 2 | 6 | 2,588 | 1,606 | 526 | 255 | 159 | 20 | 22 |
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities |
44,255 | 29,719 | 6,040 | 4,722 | 2,520 | 499 | 755 | 14,123 | 9,978 | 1,799 | 1,092 | 844 | 162 | 248 | 30,132 | 19,741 | 4,241 | 3,630 | 1,676 | 337 | 507 |
Library science | 82 | 78 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 68 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Mathematics and statistics | 14,954 | 10,965 | 858 | 956 | 1,469 | 66 | 640 | 8,360 | 6,160 | 415 | 540 | 812 | 37 | 396 | 6,594 | 4,805 | 443 | 416 | 657 | 29 | 244 |
Mechanics and repair technologies | 263 | 197 | 21 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 249 | 187 | 19 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Military technologies | 168 | 150 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 152 | 136 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Multi/interdisciplinary studies | 33,792 | 23,266 | 2,883 | 4,193 | 2,326 | 299 | 825 | 10,439 | 7,459 | 830 | 914 | 859 | 101 | 276 | 23,353 | 15,807 | 2,053 | 3,279 | 1,467 | 198 | 549 |
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies | 27,430 | 21,467 | 2,557 | 1,830 | 852 | 242 | 482 | 14,190 | 10,888 | 1,491 | 1,017 | 441 | 114 | 239 | 13,240 | 10,579 | 1,066 | 813 | 411 | 128 | 243 |
Philosophy and religious studies | 11,969 | 9,750 | 600 | 662 | 692 | 92 | 173 | 7,430 | 6,157 | 321 | 387 | 401 | 55 | 109 | 4,539 | 3,593 | 279 | 275 | 291 | 37 | 64 |
Physical sciences and science technologies | 21,073 | 15,909 | 1,208 | 953 | 2,031 | 157 | 815 | 12,455 | 9,826 | 522 | 548 | 1,018 | 78 | 463 | 8,618 | 6,083 | 686 | 405 | 1,013 | 79 | 352 |
Precision production | 23 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 90,039 | 63,219 | 10,361 | 8,334 | 5,922 | 646 | 1,557 | 20,343 | 14,587 | 1,879 | 1,802 | 1,591 | 142 | 342 | 69,696 | 48,632 | 8,482 | 6,532 | 4,331 | 504 | 1,215 |
Public administration and social service professions |
23,147 | 13,605 | 5,355 | 2,753 | 820 | 280 | 334 | 4,354 | 2,604 | 868 | 561 | 195 | 65 | 61 | 18,793 | 11,001 | 4,487 | 2,192 | 625 | 215 | 273 |
Security and protective services | 39,206 | 25,215 | 7,162 | 4,795 | 1,179 | 362 | 493 | 19,505 | 13,804 | 2,575 | 2,101 | 649 | 163 | 213 | 19,701 | 11,411 | 4,587 | 2,694 | 530 | 199 | 280 |
Social sciences and history | 164,183 | 117,453 | 14,689 | 13,762 | 12,626 | 1,295 | 4,358 | 82,417 | 62,263 | 5,449 | 6,012 | 5,947 | 583 | 2,163 | 81,766 | 55,190 | 9,240 | 7,750 | 6,679 | 712 | 2,195 |
Social sciences | 129,737 | 88,837 | 12,993 | 11,472 | 11,261 | 1,024 | 4,150 | 62,200 | 45,075 | 4,674 | 4,720 | 5,248 | 440 | 2,043 | 67,537 | 43,762 | 8,319 | 6,752 | 6,013 | 584 | 2,107 |
History | 34,446 | 28,616 | 1,696 | 2,290 | 1,365 | 271 | 208 | 20,217 | 17,188 | 775 | 1,292 | 699 | 143 | 120 | 14,229 | 11,428 | 921 | 998 | 666 | 128 | 88 |
Theology and religious vocations | 8,696 | 7,323 | 638 | 308 | 222 | 41 | 164 | 5,761 | 4,956 | 344 | 186 | 134 | 29 | 112 | 2,935 | 2,367 | 294 | 122 | 88 | 12 | 52 |
Transportation and materials moving | 5,657 | 4,592 | 296 | 372 | 210 | 67 | 120 | 5,043 | 4,101 | 268 | 331 | 181 | 58 | 104 | 614 | 491 | 28 | 41 | 29 | 9 | 16 |
Visual and performing arts | 85,186 | 65,385 | 4,997 | 5,977 | 5,261 | 613 | 2,953 | 32,729 | 24,644 | 2,179 | 2,540 | 2,019 | 257 | 1,090 | 52,457 | 40,741 | 2,818 | 3,437 | 3,242 | 356 | 1,863 |
1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately. | |||||||||||||||||||||
NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2006-07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2007. (This table was prepared July 2008.) |