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Digest of Education Statistics: 2006
Digest of Education Statistics: 2006

NCES 2007-017
July 2007


Table 275. Doctor'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 48,378 28,214 2,900 1,662 2,632 217 12,753 25,323 13,567 1,015 766 1,293 90 8,592 23,055 14,647 1,885 896 1,339 127 4,161
Agriculture and natural resources 1,185 587 24 18 33 7 516 758 376 15 9 15 4 339 427 211 9 9 18 3 177
Architecture and related services 173 69 7 3 13 0 81 94 34 4 2 8 0 46 79 35 3 1 5 0 35
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies 209 109 24 15 20 3 38 97 53 10 9 7 1 17 112 56 14 6 13 2 21
Biological and biomedical sciences 5,242 3,072 163 173 496 16 1,322 2,804 1,649 71 79 252 9 744 2,438 1,423 92 94 244 7 578
Business 1,481 673 112 51 67 9 569 960 434 56 36 39 8 387 521 239 56 15 28 1 182
                                           
Communications, journalism, and related programs 418 250 29 8 19 2 110 181 116 4 4 3 0 54 237 134 25 4 16 2 56
Communications technologies 8 5 0 0 0 0 3 5 3 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 1
Computer and information sciences 909 344 21 19 69 1 455 709 265 16 10 53 1 364 200 79 5 9 16 0 91
Construction trades 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Education 7,088 4,746 1,111 307 203 56 665 2,403 1,647 314 109 56 12 265 4,685 3,099 797 198 147 44 400
                                           
Engineering 5,923 1,751 104 104 368 8 3,588 4,872 1,395 70 81 290 4 3,032 1,051 356 34 23 78 4 556
Engineering technologies1  58 20 6 1 4 0 27 51 19 4 1 2 0 25 7 1 2 0 2 0 2
English language and literature/letters 1,207 939 64 30 49 6 119 479 382 18 15 13 2 49 728 557 46 15 36 4 70
Family and consumer sciences 329 198 43 8 7 2 71 94 63 8 1 1 1 20 235 135 35 7 6 1 51
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 1,031 567 26 89 39 1 309 410 240 9 42 7 0 112 621 327 17 47 32 1 197
                                           
Health professions and related clinical sciences 4,361 3,144 209 148 286 19 555 1,261 828 44 49 78 5 257 3,100 2,316 165 99 208 14 298
Legal professions and studies 119 17 8 0 3 0 91 80 11 3 0 1 0 65 39 6 5 0 2 0 26
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities 95 76 4 6 1 0 8 39 29 1 2 1 0 6 56 47 3 4 0 0 2
Library science 47 24 5 2 3 0 13 16 8 2 0 1 0 5 31 16 3 2 2 0 8
Mathematics and statistics 1,060 419 9 25 50 0 557 762 290 8 19 36 0 409 298 129 1 6 14 0 148
                                           
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 876 575 50 32 61 5 153 410 281 16 19 25 2 67 466 294 34 13 36 3 86
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies 222 146 9 9 9 0 49 118 67 5 5 8 0 33 104 79 4 4 1 0 16
Philosophy and religious studies 595 454 17 10 26 2 86 391 293 12 7 20 1 58 204 161 5 3 6 1 28
                                           
Physical sciences and science technologies 3,815 1,929 72 76 192 16 1,530 2,753 1,394 40 45 125 13 1,136 1,062 535 32 31 67 3 394
Precision production 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Psychology 4,827 3,684 341 276 247 40 239 1,496 1,199 67 83 52 12 83 3,331 2,485 274 193 195 28 156
Public administration and social service professions 649 407 92 28 23 4 95 275 167 32 12 3 2 59 374 240 60 16 20 2 36
Security and protective services 54 46 3 0 0 0 5 21 18 0 0 0 0 3 33 28 3 0 0 0 2
                                           
Social sciences and history 3,811 2,354 188 153 152 16 948 2,188 1,312 78 80 75 10 633 1,623 1,042 110 73 77 6 315
Social sciences 2,956 1,678 139 124 124 13 878 1,687 910 59 66 60 8 584 1,269 768 80 58 64 5 294
History 855 676 49 29 28 3 70 501 402 19 14 15 2 49 354 274 30 15 13 1 21
Theology and religious vocations 1,304 762 130 39 116 2 255 1,024 595 95 28 94 1 211 280 167 35 11 22 1 44
Transportation and materials moving 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Visual and performing arts 1,282 847 29 32 76 2 296 572 399 13 19 28 2 111 710 448 16 13 48 0 185
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.)