| Level of degree and field of study | 1999–2000 | 2009–10 | 1999–2000 to 2009–10 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Percent of total |
Number to females | Percent to females | Number | Percent of total |
Number to females | Percent to females | Change in number of degrees | Percent change | Percent change for females | |||
| Bachelor’s degrees Total1 |
1,237,875 | 100.0 | 707,508 | 57.2 | 1,650,014 | 100.0 | 943,381 | 57.2 | 412,139 | 33.3 | 33.3 | ||
| Business, management, marketing, and personal and culinary services |
256,070 | 20.7 | 127,549 | 49.8 | 358,293 | 21.7 | 174,992 | 48.8 | 102,223 | 39.9 | 37.2 | ||
| Social sciences and history | 127,101 | 10.3 | 65,039 | 51.2 | 172,780 | 10.5 | 85,374 | 49.4 | 45,679 | 35.9 | 31.3 | ||
| Health professions and related programs |
80,863 | 6.5 | 67,521 | 83.5 | 129,634 | 7.9 | 110,328 | 85.1 | 48,771 | 60.3 | 63.4 | ||
| Education | 108,034 | 8.7 | 81,931 | 75.8 | 101,265 | 6.1 | 80,539 | 79.5 | -6,769 | -6.3 | -1.7 | ||
| Psychology | 74,194 | 6.0 | 56,743 | 76.5 | 97,216 | 5.9 | 74,941 | 77.1 | 23,022 | 31.0 | 32.1 | ||
| Visual and performing arts | 58,791 | 4.7 | 34,788 | 59.2 | 91,802 | 5.6 | 56,034 | 61.0 | 33,011 | 56.1 | 61.1 | ||
| Engineering and engineering technologies |
73,323 | 5.9 | 13,655 | 18.6 | 88,729 | 5.4 | 14,896 | 16.8 | 15,406 | 21.0 | 9.1 | ||
| Biological and biomedical sciences |
63,630 | 5.1 | 37,051 | 58.2 | 86,400 | 5.2 | 50,535 | 58.5 | 22,770 | 35.8 | 36.4 | ||
| Communication and communications technologies |
57,058 | 4.6 | 34,906 | 61.2 | 86,048 | 5.2 | 54,008 | 62.8 | 28,990 | 50.8 | 54.7 | ||
| English language and literature/letters |
50,106 | 4.0 | 33,982 | 67.8 | 53,231 | 3.2 | 36,181 | 68.0 | 3,125 | 6.2 | 6.5 | ||
| Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities |
36,104 | 2.9 | 23,854 | 66.1 | 46,953 | 2.8 | 30,334 | 64.6 | 10,849 | 30.0 | 27.2 | ||
| Homeland security, law enforcement, firefighting, and related protective services |
24,877 | 2.0 | 10,808 | 43.4 | 43,667 | 2.6 | 21,402 | 49.0 | 18,790 | 75.5 | 98.0 | ||
| Computer and information sciences and support services |
37,788 | 3.1 | 10,603 | 28.1 | 39,589 | 2.4 | 7,179 | 18.1 | 1,801 | 4.8 | -32.3 | ||
| Multi/interdisciplinary studies | 27,936 | 2.3 | 18,717 | 67.0 | 37,648 | 2.3 | 25,519 | 67.8 | 9,712 | 34.8 | 36.3 | ||
| Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies |
17,571 | 1.4 | 9,021 | 51.3 | 33,318 | 2.0 | 15,697 | 47.1 | 15,747 | 89.6 | 74.0 | ||
| Agriculture and natural resources |
24,238 | 2.0 | 10,395 | 42.9 | 26,336 | 1.6 | 12,817 | 48.7 | 2,098 | 8.7 | 23.3 | ||
| Public administration and social service professions |
20,185 | 1.6 | 16,369 | 81.1 | 25,414 | 1.5 | 20,836 | 82.0 | 5,229 | 25.9 | 27.3 | ||
| Physical sciences and science technologies |
18,427 | 1.5 | 7,408 | 40.2 | 23,379 | 1.4 | 9,517 | 40.7 | 4,952 | 26.9 | 28.5 | ||
| Family and consumer sciences/ human sciences |
16,321 | 1.3 | 14,288 | 87.5 | 21,818 | 1.3 | 19,132 | 87.7 | 5,497 | 33.7 | 33.9 | ||
| Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics |
15,886 | 1.3 | 11,270 | 70.9 | 21,516 | 1.3 | 14,906 | 69.3 | 5,630 | 35.4 | 32.3 | ||
| 1Includes other fields not shown separately. | |||||||||||||
| NOTE: Includes only institutions that participated in Title IV federal financial aid programs. The new Classification of Instructional Programs was initiated in 2009–10. Estimates for 1999–2000 have been reclassified when necessary to conform to the new taxonomy. For more information on the classification of postsecondary education institutions, see Appendix C – Commonly Used Measures. For more information on the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), see Appendix B – Guide to Sources. | |||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2000 and Fall 2010, Completions component. |
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