Table 318.50.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by control of institution, level of degree, and field of study: 2011-12

Field of study	All institutions				Public institutions				Private nonprofit institutions				Private for-profit institutions
	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's degrees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's degrees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's degrees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's degrees1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
All fields, total	1,017,538	1,791,046	754,229	170,062	756,084	1,131,886	349,311	84,727	54,346	526,506	325,427	79,483	207,108	132,654	79,491	5,852
Agriculture and natural resources	7,066	30,929	6,390	1,333	6,785	25,963	4,985	1,255	281	4,644	1,315	78	0	322	90	0
Architecture and related services	593	9,728	8,448	255	562	7,055	5,207	190	31	2,620	3,140	65	0	53	101	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	194	9,232	1,947	302	181	6,012	1,156	180	13	3,219	791	122	0	1	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	3,834	95,849	12,415	7,935	3,694	65,732	7,525	5,300	138	29,979	4,890	2,635	2	138	0	0
Business	142,338	366,815	191,571	2,531	83,893	202,276	66,464	961	11,585	111,974	88,410	689	46,860	52,565	36,697	881
Communication, journalism, and related programs	3,495	83,770	9,005	563	3,243	58,473	4,032	465	102	23,876	4,756	98	150	1,421	217	0
Communications technologies	5,000	4,982	491	4	3,198	1,285	85	0	162	1,415	239	4	1,640	2,282	167	0
Computer and information sciences	41,161	47,384	20,917	1,698	20,422	23,176	10,510	1,170	1,879	11,132	8,269	498	18,860	13,076	2,138	30
Construction trades	5,752	377	5	0	4,563	359	5	0	212	17	0	0	977	1	0	0
Education	20,531	105,785	178,062	9,990	16,499	73,277	85,247	5,676	738	29,283	76,115	3,009	3,294	3,225	16,700	1,305
Engineering	3,382	81,382	40,323	8,722	3,310	62,850	26,883	6,404	29	18,218	13,191	2,318	43	314	249	0
Engineering technologies and engineering-    related fields2	36,510	16,531	4,769	134	24,097	12,894	2,874	56	1,398	1,782	1,632	78	11,015	1,855	263	0
English language and literature/letters	2,137	53,767	9,939	1,427	1,518	37,640	6,282	1,084	21	15,859	3,468	343	598	268	189	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	9,503	23,428	3,157	325	8,821	19,221	1,983	270	452	3,949	842	45	230	258	332	10
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,980	21,764	3,827	1,231	1,689	15,559	2,778	786	291	6,198	1,049	445	0	7	0	0
Health professions and related programs	218,041	163,440	83,893	62,090	129,382	91,828	38,206	31,830	18,059	52,023	35,123	29,282	70,600	19,589	10,564	978
Homeland security, law enforcement, and    firefighting	50,695	53,767	8,402	117	28,921	30,599	3,236	85	1,922	11,250	2,645	5	19,852	11,918	2,521	27
Legal professions and studies	12,182	4,592	6,614	46,836	6,350	2,299	1,694	15,554	680	1,272	4,728	29,686	5,152	1,021	192	1,596
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	336,554	46,925	3,791	93	322,318	32,304	1,396	43	10,641	14,394	2,343	22	3,595	227	52	28
Library science	159	95	7,441	60	159	95	6,146	59	0	0	1,295	1	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	1,529	18,842	6,245	1,669	1,514	12,776	4,496	1,248	15	6,065	1,749	421	0	1	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	20,714	250	0	0	12,566	178	0	0	1,726	72	0	0	6,422	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	986	86	29	0	959	57	27	0	13	7	2	0	14	22	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	27,267	45,716	7,745	727	21,692	31,063	4,249	490	270	9,763	2,845	237	5,305	4,890	651	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	3,123	38,993	7,047	288	1,940	28,756	5,086	271	244	9,873	1,797	17	939	364	164	0
Philosophy and religious studies	308	12,651	2,003	778	135	5,735	664	351	173	6,735	1,220	426	0	181	119	1
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,824	26,663	6,910	5,370	5,742	18,643	5,237	3,827	81	8,016	1,673	1,543	1	4	0	0
Precision production	3,320	37	11	0	2,975	8	0	0	88	29	11	0	257	0	0	0
Psychology	4,717	108,986	26,834	5,928	4,372	72,921	8,282	2,398	275	32,754	14,103	2,660	70	3,311	4,449	870
Public administration and social services	9,143	29,695	41,680	884	5,752	18,017	24,694	513	474	8,517	15,164	253	2,917	3,161	1,822	118
Social sciences and history	14,132	178,543	21,889	4,597	14,007	121,679	11,898	3,046	95	54,181	9,410	1,551	30	2,683	581	0
Social sciences	13,321	143,422	17,734	3,628	13,227	97,743	9,068	2,404	83	43,353	8,422	1,224	11	2,326	244	0
History	811	35,121	4,155	969	780	23,936	2,830	642	12	10,828	988	327	19	357	337	0
Theology and religious vocations	839	9,369	13,396	2,447	1	1	0	0	817	9,286	13,341	2,441	21	82	55	6
Transportation and materials moving	2,098	4,876	1,702	0	1,591	2,204	86	0	430	2,552	1,561	0	77	120	55	0
Visual and performing arts	22,431	95,797	17,331	1,728	13,233	50,951	7,898	1,215	1,011	35,552	8,310	511	8,187	9,294	1,123	2

1 Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level, as well as such degrees as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees that were formerly classified as first-professional degrees.

2 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," which are listed separately.

NOTE: Data are for postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): "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 2012, Completions component. (This table was prepared July 2013.)