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Table 265. Master's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2003-04 
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                                                  |                              Total                      |                              Males                      |                             Females
                                                  |_________________________________________________________|_________________________________________________________|_________________________________________________________
                                                  |       |        |Black,|      |        |American|        |       |        |Black,|      |        |American|        |       |        |Black,|      |        |American|
                                                  |       |  White,|  non-|      |  Asian/| Indian/|Nonresi-|       |  White,|  non-|      |  Asian/| Indian/|Nonresi-|       |  White,|  non-|      |  Asian/| Indian/|Nonresi-
                                                  |       |    non-|  His-|  His-| Pacific|  Alaska|    dent|       |    non-|  His-|  His-| Pacific|  Alaska|    dent|       |    non-|  His-|  His-| Pacific|  Alaska|   dent
Major field of study                              |  Total|Hispanic| panic| panic|Islander|  Native|   alien|  Total|Hispanic| panic| panic|Islander|  Native|   alien|  Total|Hispanic| panic| panic|Islander|  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 .............................|558,940| 369,582|50,657|29,666|  30,952|   3,192|  74,891|229,545| 143,827|14,653|10,813|  14,347|   1,127|  44,778|329,395| 225,755|36,004|18,853|  16,605|   2,065|  30,113
                                                  |_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
Agriculture and natural resources ................|  4,783|   3,516|   140|   114|     135|      26|     852|  2,306|   1,693|    56|    55|      53|      11|     438|  2,477|   1,823|    84|    59|      82|      15|     414
Architecture and related services ................|  5,424|   3,330|   220|   307|     301|      21|   1,245|  3,049|   1,966|    88|   165|     129|      15|     686|  2,375|   1,364|   132|   142|     172|       6|     559
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies .......|  1,683|     998|   149|   130|     112|      31|     263|    642|     394|    50|    48|      34|      14|     102|  1,041|     604|    99|    82|      78|      17|     161
Biological and biomedical sciences ...............|  7,657|   4,907|   431|   320|     835|      35|   1,129|  3,227|   2,080|   130|   153|     364|      11|     489|  4,430|   2,827|   301|   167|     471|      24|     640
Business .........................................|139,347|  85,082|14,574| 6,429|  10,488|     654|  22,120| 80,858|  51,743| 5,526| 3,635|   5,941|     327|  13,686| 58,489|  33,339| 9,048| 2,794|   4,547|     327|   8,434
                                                  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Communications, journalism, and related programs .|  6,535|   4,162|   646|   341|     315|      28|   1,043|  2,127|   1,370|   166|   122|      84|      14|     371|  4,408|   2,792|   480|   219|     231|      14|     672
Communications technologies ......................|    365|     177|    54|    15|      37|       0|      82|    202|     115|    25|     9|      16|       0|      37|    163|      62|    29|     6|      21|       0|      45
Computer and information sciences ................| 20,143|   6,696| 1,086|   638|   2,760|      67|   8,896| 13,868|   5,034|   598|   415|   1,647|      40|   6,134|  6,275|   1,662|   488|   223|   1,113|      27|   2,762
Construction trades ..............................|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0
Education ........................................|162,345| 126,634|15,784|10,926|   3,967|   1,056|   3,978| 37,843|  29,917| 3,288| 2,475|     839|     292|   1,032|124,502|  96,717|12,496| 8,451|   3,128|     764|   2,946
                                                  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Engineering ......................................| 32,698|  12,131|   856| 1,019|   3,151|      83|  15,458| 25,824|   9,797|   577|   755|   2,306|      57|  12,332|  6,874|   2,334|   279|   264|     845|      26|   3,126
Engineering technologies\1\ ......................|  2,499|   1,385|   174|    83|     217|      14|     626|  1,843|   1,055|   101|    62|     152|      10|     463|    656|     330|    73|    21|      65|       4|     163
English language and literature/letters ..........|  7,956|   6,491|   393|   302|     267|      61|     442|  2,459|   2,074|   102|    87|      74|      16|     106|  5,497|   4,417|   291|   215|     193|      45|     336
Family and consumer sciences .....................|  1,794|   1,281|   195|    85|      53|      15|     165|    239|     166|    24|     9|       7|       3|      30|  1,555|   1,115|   171|    76|      46|      12|     135
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics ..|  3,124|   1,783|    54|   383|     123|      18|     763|    957|     595|    20|   106|      30|       3|     203|  2,167|   1,188|    34|   277|      93|      15|     560
                                                  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Health professions and related clinical sciences .| 44,939|  32,735| 3,994| 2,210|   3,269|     288|   2,443|  9,670|   6,471|   647|   532|     949|      60|   1,011| 35,269|  26,264| 3,347| 1,678|   2,320|     228|   1,432
Legal professions and studies ....................|  4,243|   1,414|   231|   153|     243|      23|   2,179|  2,394|     809|    91|    84|     126|       7|   1,277|  1,849|     605|   140|    69|     117|      16|     902
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,       |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
   and humanities ................................|  3,697|   2,988|   266|   156|      89|      28|     170|  1,370|   1,119|    86|    50|      38|      10|      67|  2,327|   1,869|   180|   106|      51|      18|     103
Library science ..................................|  6,015|   5,011|   279|   315|     174|      35|     201|  1,151|     965|    41|    57|      35|       7|      46|  4,864|   4,046|   238|   258|     139|      28|     155
Mathematics and statistics .......................|  4,191|   1,937|   122|   114|     295|       7|   1,716|  2,302|   1,113|    67|    66|     139|       4|     913|  1,889|     824|    55|    48|     156|       3|     803
                                                  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Mechanics and repair technologies ................|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0
Military technologies ............................|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0|      0|       0|     0|     0|       0|       0|       0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies ..................|  4,047|   2,741|   328|   214|     186|      41|     537|  1,378|     910|    85|    75|      50|      10|     248|  2,669|   1,831|   243|   139|     136|      31|     289
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ...|  3,199|   2,503|   261|   132|      88|      15|     200|  1,573|   1,207|   133|    68|      48|       7|     110|  1,626|   1,296|   128|    64|      40|       8|      90
Philosophy and religious studies .................|  1,578|   1,222|    73|    71|      73|       4|     135|    972|     762|    41|    48|      39|       2|      80|    606|     460|    32|    23|      34|       2|      55
                                                  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Physical sciences and science technologies .......|  5,570|   3,397|   154|   139|     249|      16|   1,615|  3,364|   2,045|    68|    78|     136|       6|   1,031|  2,206|   1,352|    86|    61|     113|      10|     584
Precision production .............................|     13|      10|     0|     1|       0|       0|       2|      9|       7|     0|     1|       0|       0|       1|      4|       3|     0|     0|       0|       0|       1
Psychology .......................................| 17,898|  12,951| 2,294| 1,097|     715|     140|     701|  3,789|   2,814|   413|   210|     153|      34|     165| 14,109|  10,137| 1,881|   887|     562|     106|     536
Public administration and social service          |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
   professions ...................................| 28,250|  18,183| 5,087| 2,124|   1,037|     274|   1,545|  7,001|   4,392| 1,073|   522|     256|      77|     681| 21,249|  13,791| 4,014| 1,602|     781|     197|     864
Security and protective services .................|  3,717|   2,672|   565|   270|      86|      21|     103|  1,940|   1,488|   204|   144|      43|       8|      53|  1,777|   1,184|   361|   126|      43|      13|      50
                                                  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Social sciences and history ......................| 16,110|   9,903| 1,221|   796|     720|      89|   3,381|  7,810|   4,954|   457|   371|     283|      29|   1,716|  8,300|   4,949|   764|   425|     437|      60|   1,665
  Social sciences ................................| 13,588|   7,747| 1,129|   674|     681|      79|   3,278|  6,429|   3,752|   414|   293|     270|      28|   1,672|  7,159|   3,995|   715|   381|     411|      51|   1,606
  History ........................................|  2,522|   2,156|    92|   122|      39|      10|     103|  1,381|   1,202|    43|    78|      13|       1|      44|  1,141|     954|    49|    44|      26|       9|      59
Theology and religious vocations .................|  5,486|   3,973|   450|   180|     265|      15|     603|  3,238|   2,346|   221|   100|     146|       8|     417|  2,248|   1,627|   229|    80|     119|       7|     186
Transportation and materials moving ..............|    728|     589|    44|    32|      22|       4|      37|    609|     493|    38|    26|      20|       4|      28|    119|      96|     6|     6|       2|       0|       9
Visual and performing arts .......................| 12,906|   8,780|   532|   570|     680|      83|   2,261|  5,531|   3,933|   237|   285|     210|      41|     825|  7,375|   4,847|   295|   285|     470|      42|   1,436
__________________________________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
\1\Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are 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 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, 2003-04 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2004. (This table was prepared July 2005.)


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