Table 301.

Bachelor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2009-10

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
	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	1,650,014	1,167,499	164,844	140,316	117,422	12,399	47,534	706,633	513,717	56,171	55,092	53,377	4,875	23,401	943,381	653,782	108,673	85,224	64,045	7,524	24,133
Agriculture and natural resources	26,336	22,430	829	1,249	1,180	243	405	13,519	11,743	374	580	487	133	202	12,817	10,687	455	669	693	110	203
Architecture and related services	10,051	6,983	500	1,175	911	61	421	5,694	4,047	295	684	444	32	192	4,357	2,936	205	491	467	29	229
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	8,621	4,757	1,173	1,266	1,053	178	194	2,694	1,504	355	393	320	58	64	5,927	3,253	818	873	733	120	130
Biological and biomedical sciences	86,400	55,235	6,714	6,363	15,027	573	2,488	35,865	23,695	2,022	2,557	6,347	241	1,003	50,535	31,540	4,692	3,806	8,680	332	1,485
Business	358,293	241,716	41,874	30,176	26,316	2,293	15,918	183,301	130,944	15,818	13,856	13,351	1,063	8,269	174,992	110,772	26,056	16,320	12,965	1,230	7,649
Communications, journalism, and related programs	81,266	60,678	8,410	6,433	3,640	492	1,613	28,595	21,710	2,924	2,099	1,164	193	505	52,671	38,968	5,486	4,334	2,476	299	1,108
Communications technologies	4,782	3,391	478	455	304	33	121	3,445	2,508	293	348	192	26	78	1,337	883	185	107	112	7	43
Computer and information sciences	39,589	26,565	4,565	2,942	3,372	279	1,866	32,410	22,585	3,091	2,408	2,654	207	1,465	7,179	3,980	1,474	534	718	72	401
Construction trades	273	258	2	5	6	2	0	261	247	2	4	6	2	0	12	11	0	1	0	0	0
Education	101,265	84,474	6,808	6,109	1,990	898	986	20,726	17,200	1,634	1,049	418	177	248	80,539	67,274	5,174	5,060	1,572	721	738
Engineering	72,654	50,456	3,236	5,043	9,011	388	4,520	59,360	42,173	2,390	3,966	6,942	304	3,585	13,294	8,283	846	1,077	2,069	84	935
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	15,596	11,858	1,452	1,062	656	137	431	14,014	10,861	1,160	936	568	121	368	1,582	997	292	126	88	16	63
English language and literature/letters	53,231	41,617	4,028	4,090	2,614	361	521	17,050	13,656	1,048	1,296	779	106	165	36,181	27,961	2,980	2,794	1,835	255	356
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	21,818	16,065	2,457	1,633	1,155	219	289	2,686	1,896	363	165	186	16	60	19,132	14,169	2,094	1,468	969	203	229
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	21,516	15,227	880	3,545	1,344	125	395	6,610	4,833	225	992	415	38	107	14,906	10,394	655	2,553	929	87	288
Health professions and related programs	129,634	93,675	15,046	8,826	9,048	976	2,063	19,306	12,987	2,107	1,600	2,029	142	441	110,328	80,688	12,939	7,226	7,019	834	1,622
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	43,667	26,452	8,720	6,388	1,386	406	315	22,265	15,202	3,085	2,828	811	191	148	21,402	11,250	5,635	3,560	575	215	167
Legal professions and studies	3,886	2,493	687	408	228	37	33	1,096	739	134	126	77	9	11	2,790	1,754	553	282	151	28	22
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	46,953	31,707	6,815	4,514	1,765	531	1,621	16,619	11,878	2,150	1,230	586	172	603	30,334	19,829	4,665	3,284	1,179	359	1,018
Library science	85	79	2	3	1	0	0	11	10	1	0	0	0	0	74	69	1	3	1	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	16,030	11,510	854	1,027	1,671	81	887	9,087	6,488	417	609	998	43	532	6,943	5,022	437	418	673	38	355
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	206	167	9	11	12	0	7	198	162	8	11	12	0	5	8	5	1	0	0	0	2
Military technologies and applied sciences	56	47	3	5	0	1	0	54	46	3	4	0	1	0	2	1	0	1	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	37,648	25,817	3,687	4,648	2,467	341	688	12,129	8,720	1,090	1,084	864	97	274	25,519	17,097	2,597	3,564	1,603	244	414
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	33,318	25,678	3,257	2,371	1,260	279	473	17,621	13,332	1,913	1,317	665	138	256	15,697	12,346	1,344	1,054	595	141	217
Philosophy and religious studies	12,504	9,740	849	910	742	88	175	7,910	6,276	456	582	426	60	110	4,594	3,464	393	328	316	28	65
Physical sciences and science technologies	23,379	17,245	1,290	1,279	2,464	168	933	13,862	10,695	566	688	1,293	102	518	9,517	6,550	724	591	1,171	66	415
Precision production	29	20	0	1	6	0	2	19	16	0	0	3	0	0	10	4	0	1	3	0	2
Psychology	97,216	65,521	11,981	10,517	6,701	806	1,690	22,275	15,373	2,219	2,263	1,849	206	365	74,941	50,148	9,762	8,254	4,852	600	1,325
Public administration and social services	25,414	15,053	5,745	3,045	912	327	332	4,578	2,862	863	488	232	66	67	20,836	12,191	4,882	2,557	680	261	265
Social sciences and history	172,780	119,767	15,976	16,823	13,860	1,356	4,998	87,406	64,114	6,042	7,370	6,708	618	2,554	85,374	55,653	9,934	9,453	7,152	738	2,444
Social sciences	137,582	90,860	14,313	14,035	12,533	1,086	4,755	66,527	46,639	5,218	5,790	6,003	461	2,416	71,055	44,221	9,095	8,245	6,530	625	2,339
History	35,198	28,907	1,663	2,788	1,327	270	243	20,879	17,475	824	1,580	705	157	138	14,319	11,432	839	1,208	622	113	105
Theology and religious vocations	8,718	7,366	560	361	209	53	169	5,756	4,946	315	224	121	33	117	2,962	2,420	245	137	88	20	52
Transportation and materials moving	4,998	3,954	358	362	195	39	90	4,443	3,531	319	320	162	33	78	555	423	39	42	33	6	12
Visual and performing arts	91,802	69,498	5,599	7,271	5,916	628	2,890	35,768	26,738	2,489	3,015	2,268	247	1,011	56,034	42,760	3,110	4,256	3,648	381	1,879
Other and not classified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," 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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010, Completions component. (This table was prepared November 2011.)