Table 272.

Master's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and major field of study: 2003–04

Major field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non-resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non-resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non-resident 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 technologies1	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: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. 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.)