Table 270. | Bachelor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1998-99 |
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Total | Men | Women |_______________________________________________________________|____________________________________________________________|____________________________________________________________ | | White, | Black, | | Asian/ |American| | | White, |Black, | | Asian/ |American| | | White, |Black, | | Asian/ |American| Major field of study | Total | non- | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-| Total | non- | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-| Total | non- | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi- | |Hispanic| His- | panic |Islander|Alaskan | dent | |Hispanic| His- | panic |Islander|Alaskan | dent | |Hispanic| His- | panic |Islander|Alaskan | dent | | | panic | | | Native | alien | | | panic | | | Native | alien | | | panic | | | Native | 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 ..........................|1,200,303 |906,305 |102,106 |70,008 | 74,102 | 8,418 | 39,364 |518,746 |396,476 |34,827 |28,624 | 34,172 | 3,320 | 21,327 |681,557 |509,829 |67,279 |41,384 | 39,930 | 5,098 | 18,037 |__________|________|________|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________ Agriculture and natural resources ............| 23,930 | 21,344 | 646 | 721 | 637 | 209 | 373 | 13,873 | 12,534 | 304 | 414 | 289 | 112 | 220 | 10,057 | 8,810 | 342 | 307 | 348 | 97 | 153 Architecture and related programs ............| 8,246 | 5,997 | 342 | 614 | 689 | 52 | 552 | 5,157 | 3,831 | 213 | 384 | 383 | 35 | 311 | 3,089 | 2,166 | 129 | 230 | 306 | 17 | 241 Area, ethnic, and cultural studies ...........| 6,252 | 3,760 | 765 | 703 | 739 | 85 | 200 | 2,023 | 1,215 | 228 | 230 | 234 | 34 | 82 | 4,229 | 2,545 | 537 | 473 | 505 | 51 | 118 Biological sciences/life sciences ............| 65,014 | 46,076 | 4,841 | 3,349 | 8,848 | 413 | 1,487 | 28,254 | 20,468 | 1,402 | 1,486 | 4,090 | 177 | 631 | 36,760 | 25,608 | 3,439 | 1,863 | 4,758 | 236 | 856 Business .....................................| 242,236 |176,124 | 21,785 |13,426 | 16,196 | 1,359 | 13,346 |123,158 | 93,117 | 8,224 | 6,459 | 7,292 | 603 | 7,463 |119,078 | 83,007 |13,561 | 6,967 | 8,904 | 756 | 5,883 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Communications................................| 51,384 | 40,725 | 4,624 | 2,529 | 1,754 | 264 | 1,488 | 20,298 | 16,556 | 1,579 | 907 | 594 | 88 | 574 | 31,086 | 24,169 | 3,045 | 1,622 | 1,160 | 176 | 914 Communications technologies ..................| 935 | 668 | 107 | 73 | 27 | 3 | 57 | 563 | 401 | 49 | 54 | 21 | 3 | 35 | 372 | 267 | 58 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 22 Computer and information sciences.............| 29,345 | 18,865 | 2,827 | 1,330 | 3,830 | 145 | 2,348 | 21,392 | 14,648 | 1,417 | 907 | 2,690 | 95 | 1,635 | 7,953 | 4,217 | 1,410 | 423 | 1,140 | 50 | 713 Construction trades ..........................| 204 | 184 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 187 | 171 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 Education.....................................| 107,172 | 90,717 | 7,921 | 4,701 | 1,916 | 1,027 | 890 | 26,226 | 21,977 | 2,137 | 1,070 | 546 | 264 | 232 | 80,946 | 68,740 | 5,784 | 3,631 | 1,370 | 763 | 658 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Engineering...................................| 57,918 | 39,736 | 3,169 | 3,184 | 6,914 | 314 | 4,601 | 46,579 | 32,611 | 2,036 | 2,479 | 5,319 | 226 | 3,908 | 11,339 | 7,125 | 1,133 | 705 | 1,595 | 88 | 693 Engineering-related technologies..............| 13,743 | 10,547 | 1,279 | 676 | 594 | 108 | 539 | 12,383 | 9,636 | 1,057 | 573 | 530 | 85 | 502 | 1,360 | 911 | 222 | 103 | 64 | 23 | 37 English language and literature/letters.......| 50,535 | 41,435 | 3,718 | 2,565 | 2,029 | 278 | 510 | 16,490 | 13,905 | 884 | 848 | 610 | 92 | 151 | 34,045 | 27,530 | 2,834 | 1,717 | 1,419 | 186 | 359 Foreign languages and literatures ............| 14,962 | 10,696 | 551 | 2,381 | 753 | 78 | 503 | 4,496 | 3,346 | 116 | 665 | 215 | 24 | 130 | 10,466 | 7,350 | 435 | 1,716 | 538 | 54 | 373 Health professions and related sciences.......| 82,622 | 65,185 | 7,577 | 3,515 | 4,857 | 570 | 918 | 14,520 | 11,069 | 1,095 | 775 | 1,234 | 114 | 233 | 68,102 | 54,116 | 6,482 | 2,740 | 3,623 | 456 | 685 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Home economics and vocational home economics .| 17,689 | 14,570 | 1,346 | 621 | 777 | 114 | 261 | 2,100 | 1,669 | 197 | 80 | 96 | 11 | 47 | 15,589 | 12,901 | 1,149 | 541 | 681 | 103 | 214 Law and legal studies ........................| 1,901 | 1,414 | 247 | 126 | 86 | 22 | 6 | 534 | 380 | 67 | 44 | 36 | 7 | 0 | 1,367 | 1,034 | 180 | 82 | 50 | 15 | 6 Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and humanities .............................| 34,772 | 24,867 | 4,110 | 3,280 | 1,429 | 342 | 744 | 12,171 | 9,180 | 1,176 | 894 | 504 | 98 | 319 | 22,601 | 15,687 | 2,934 | 2,386 | 925 | 244 | 425 Library science...............................| 78 | 70 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 43 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 Mathematics...................................| 12,539 | 9,406 | 958 | 703 | 916 | 75 | 481 | 6,545 | 4,927 | 444 | 377 | 468 | 38 | 291 | 5,994 | 4,479 | 514 | 326 | 448 | 37 | 190 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mechanics and repairers ......................| 39 | 32 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 38 | 31 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 Multi/interdisciplinary studies ..............| 26,581 | 18,787 | 2,322 | 2,796 | 2,010 | 177 | 489 | 8,738 | 6,272 | 683 | 670 | 838 | 51 | 224 | 17,843 | 12,515 | 1,639 | 2,126 | 1,172 | 126 | 265 Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies| 18,064 | 15,134 | 1,355 | 846 | 349 | 129 | 251 | 8,839 | 7,284 | 729 | 450 | 169 | 73 | 134 | 9,225 | 7,850 | 626 | 396 | 180 | 56 | 117 Philosophy and religion.......................| 8,263 | 6,768 | 405 | 388 | 461 | 61 | 180 | 5,189 | 4,202 | 252 | 272 | 300 | 41 | 122 | 3,074 | 2,566 | 153 | 116 | 161 | 20 | 58 Physical sciences and science technologies ...| 18,337 | 14,241 | 1,138 | 650 | 1,573 | 116 | 619 | 11,029 | 8,875 | 469 | 396 | 852 | 73 | 364 | 7,308 | 5,366 | 669 | 254 | 721 | 43 | 255 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Precision production trades ..................| 386 | 306 | 42 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 11 | 274 | 221 | 28 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 112 | 85 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 6 Protective services...........................| 24,601 | 17,404 | 3,988 | 2,267 | 568 | 260 | 114 | 14,085 | 10,651 | 1,647 | 1,223 | 368 | 137 | 59 | 10,516 | 6,753 | 2,341 | 1,044 | 200 | 123 | 55 Psychology....................................| 73,536 | 54,474 | 7,567 | 5,508 | 4,302 | 553 | 1,132 | 18,294 | 13,596 | 1,719 | 1,341 | 1,221 | 153 | 264 | 55,242 | 40,878 | 5,848 | 4,167 | 3,081 | 400 | 868 Public administration and services ...........| 20,287 | 13,749 | 3,912 | 1,588 | 592 | 263 | 183 | 3,791 | 2,405 | 770 | 340 | 168 | 59 | 49 | 16,496 | 11,344 | 3,142 | 1,248 | 424 | 204 | 134 R.O.T.C. and military sciences................| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Social sciences and history ..................| 124,658 | 92,080 | 11,603 | 8,381 | 7,789 | 993 | 3,812 | 61,736 | 47,431 | 4,418 | 3,807 | 3,631 | 462 | 1,987 | 62,922 | 44,649 | 7,185 | 4,574 | 4,158 | 531 | 1,825 Theological studies and religious vocations ..| 6,280 | 5,543 | 258 | 138 | 166 | 21 | 154 | 4,484 | 4,010 | 154 | 90 | 106 | 16 | 108 | 1,796 | 1,533 | 104 | 48 | 60 | 5 | 46 Transportation and material moving workers ...| 3,383 | 2,791 | 187 | 150 | 78 | 22 | 155 | 2,984 | 2,462 | 158 | 133 | 70 | 19 | 142 | 399 | 329 | 29 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 13 Visual and performing arts ...................| 54,404 | 42,603 | 2,500 | 2,780 | 3,204 | 363 | 2,954 | 22,281 | 17,364 | 1,163 | 1,243 | 1,284 | 128 | 1,099 | 32,123 | 25,239 | 1,337 | 1,537 | 1,920 | 235 | 1,855 Not classified by field of study .............| 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 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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 "Completions" survey: "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agricultural business and production, Agricultural sciences, and Conservation and renewable natural resources; and "Business" includes Business management and administrative services, Marketing operations/marketing and distribution, and Consumer and personal services. Data imputed using alternative procedures. (See Guide to Sources for details.) SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Completions" survey. (This table was prepared August 2001.)
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