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Table 268. Master's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2001-02

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                                                  |                            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| Alaska |  dent  |        |Hispanic| His-  | panic |Islander| Alaska |  dent  |        |Hispanic| His-  | panic |Islander| Alaska |  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 ..............................|   482,118| 327,635| 40,373| 22,387|  25,414|   2,626|  63,683| 199,120| 128,770| 11,796|  8,431|  11,749|     994|  37,380| 282,998| 198,865| 28,577| 13,956|  13,665|   1,632|  26,303
                                                  |__________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________
Agriculture and natural resources ................|     4,519|   3,454|    122|    117|     139|      27|     660|   2,345|   1,806|     61|     71|      50|      19|     338|   2,174|   1,648|     61|     46|      89|       8|     322
Architecture and related programs ................|     4,566|   2,797|    164|    220|     267|      14|   1,104|   2,606|   1,660|     76|    122|     117|      11|     620|   1,960|   1,137|     88|     98|     150|       3|     484
Area, ethnic, and cultural studies ...............|     1,578|     959|    130|    125|     106|      23|     235|     610|     391|     36|     62|      40|       6|      75|     968|     568|     94|     63|      66|      17|     160
Biological sciences/life sciences ................|     6,205|   4,265|    303|    261|     552|      35|     789|   2,616|   1,846|     92|    123|     239|      14|     302|   3,589|   2,419|    211|    138|     313|      21|     487
Business .........................................|   120,785|  76,435| 10,434|  5,024|   8,352|     510|  20,030|  71,157|  46,963|  3,962|  2,862|   4,745|     315|  12,310|  49,628|  29,472|  6,472|  2,162|   3,607|     195|   7,720
                                                  |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
Communications ...................................|     5,510|   3,512|    532|    189|     251|      19|   1,007|   1,906|   1,294|    116|     59|      79|       5|     353|   3,604|   2,218|    416|    130|     172|      14|     654
Communications technologies ......................|       549|     312|     36|     11|      22|       2|     166|     295|     181|     14|      6|       9|       1|      84|     254|     131|     22|      5|      13|       1|      82
Computer and information sciences ................|    16,113|   5,144|    745|    307|   2,264|      36|   7,617|  10,753|   3,774|    403|    212|   1,329|      22|   5,013|   5,360|   1,370|    342|     95|     935|      14|   2,604
Construction trades ..............................|         9|       2|      1|      2|       0|       0|       4|       8|       2|      1|      2|       0|       0|       3|       1|       0|      0|      0|       0|       0|       1
Education ........................................|   136,579| 107,793| 13,069|  7,751|   3,095|     955|   3,916|  32,172|  25,471|  2,829|  1,819|     694|     237|   1,122| 104,407|  82,322| 10,240|  5,932|   2,401|     718|   2,794
                                                  |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
Engineering ......................................|    26,015|  11,215|    794|    775|   2,378|      61|  10,792|  20,512|   8,974|    512|    560|   1,758|      44|   8,664|   5,503|   2,241|    282|    215|     620|      17|   2,128
Engineering-related technologies\1\ ..............|       896|     583|     75|     21|      36|       4|     177|     647|     430|     49|     17|      24|       3|     124|     249|     153|     26|      4|      12|       1|      53
English language and literature/letters ..........|     7,268|   5,897|    349|    243|     250|      43|     486|   2,326|   1,931|     74|     85|      80|      17|     139|   4,942|   3,966|    275|    158|     170|      26|     347
Foreign languages and literatures.................|     2,861|   1,598|     55|    351|     115|       7|     735|     881|     529|     17|     89|      33|       4|     209|   1,980|   1,069|     38|    262|      82|       3|     526
Health professions and related sciences ..........|    43,644|  33,012|  3,249|  1,740|   3,304|     227|   2,112|   9,797|   6,883|    568|    456|     998|      74|     818|  33,847|  26,129|  2,681|  1,284|   2,306|     153|   1,294
                                                  |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
Home economics and vocational home economics .....|     2,616|   1,911|    270|    130|     104|      22|     179|     390|     276|     36|     21|      10|       6|      41|   2,226|   1,635|    234|    109|      94|      16|     138
Law and legal studies ............................|     4,053|   1,304|    176|    167|     211|      11|   2,184|   2,360|     799|     82|     86|     114|       6|   1,273|   1,693|     505|     94|     81|      97|       5|     911
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,       |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
  and humanities .................................|     2,754|   2,156|    214|    119|      72|      20|     173|   1,030|     813|     66|     47|      32|       7|      65|   1,724|   1,343|    148|     72|      40|      13|     108
Library science ..................................|     5,113|   4,280|    259|    212|     152|      31|     179|     932|     767|     35|     41|      30|       3|      56|   4,181|   3,513|    224|    171|     122|      28|     123
Mathematics ......................................|     3,487|   1,727|    126|     85|     239|      10|   1,300|   2,009|     986|     55|     54|     131|       9|     774|   1,478|     741|     71|     31|     108|       1|     526
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Multi/interdisciplinary studies ..................|     3,211|   2,236|    250|    156|     150|      24|     395|   1,237|     852|     63|     61|      56|       7|     198|   1,974|   1,384|    187|     95|      94|      17|     197
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ...|     2,754|   2,231|    210|     71|      56|       9|     177|   1,358|   1,083|    102|     42|      25|       3|     103|   1,396|   1,148|    108|     29|      31|       6|      74
Philosophy and religion ..........................|     1,334|   1,063|     60|     36|      64|       4|     107|     830|     647|     37|     22|      42|       3|      79|     504|     416|     23|     14|      22|       1|      28
Physical sciences and science technologies........|     5,034|   3,056|    149|    148|     267|      21|   1,393|   3,142|   1,916|     74|     91|     146|      11|     904|   1,892|   1,140|     75|     57|     121|      10|     489
Precision production trades.......................|         2|       0|      0|      1|       1|       0|       0|       1|       0|      0|      0|       1|       0|       0|       1|       0|      0|      1|       0|       0|       0
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Protective services ..............................|     2,935|   2,119|    482|    159|      59|      25|      91|   1,613|   1,222|    205|     88|      29|      12|      57|   1,322|     897|    277|     71|      30|      13|      34
Psychology .......................................|    14,888|  10,931|  1,837|    921|     592|     111|     496|   3,517|   2,610|    381|    231|     129|      31|     135|  11,371|   8,321|  1,456|    690|     463|      80|     361
Public administration and services ...............|    25,448|  16,889|  4,386|  1,743|     882|     228|   1,320|   6,505|   4,145|  1,010|    446|     215|      53|     636|  18,943|  12,744|  3,376|  1,297|     667|     175|     684
Social sciences and history.......................|    14,112|   8,660|  1,022|    670|     570|      80|   3,110|   6,941|   4,328|    403|    295|     227|      38|   1,650|   7,171|   4,332|    619|    375|     343|      42|   1,460
Theological studies and religious vocations ......|     4,952|   3,570|    334|    164|     276|      10|     598|   3,064|   2,178|    178|    105|     165|       6|     432|   1,888|   1,392|    156|     59|     111|       4|     166
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Transportation and material moving workers .......|       709|     604|     32|     31|      11|       3|      28|     633|     541|     29|     28|       8|       3|      24|      76|      63|      3|      3|       3|       0|       4
Visual and performing arts .......................|    11,595|   7,906|    508|    437|     577|      54|   2,113|   4,912|   3,464|    230|    228|     194|      24|     772|   6,683|   4,442|    278|    209|     383|      30|   1,341
Not classified by field of study .................|        24|      14|      0|      0|       0|       0|      10|      15|       8|      0|      0|       0|       0|       7|       9|       6|      0|      0|       0|       0|       3
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\1\Excludes "Construction trades" which is listed separately.

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.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2002 survey. (This table was prepared August 2003.)


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