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Table 292. | Doctor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2005–06 |
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 | 56,067 | 31,601 | 3,122 | 1,882 | 3,257 | 230 | 15,975 | 28,634 | 14,659 | 1,081 | 826 | 1,555 | 105 | 10,408 | 27,433 | 16,942 | 2,041 | 1,056 | 1,702 | 125 | 5,567 |
Agriculture and natural resources | 1,194 | 592 | 33 | 43 | 32 | 1 | 493 | 710 | 364 | 17 | 24 | 13 | 0 | 292 | 484 | 228 | 16 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 201 |
Architecture and related services | 201 | 59 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 115 | 108 | 30 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 62 | 93 | 29 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 53 |
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies | 226 | 110 | 44 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 34 | 98 | 51 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 128 | 59 | 30 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 17 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 5,775 | 3,243 | 175 | 178 | 491 | 19 | 1,669 | 2,933 | 1,684 | 72 | 87 | 242 | 12 | 836 | 2,842 | 1,559 | 103 | 91 | 249 | 7 | 833 |
Business | 1,711 | 787 | 137 | 39 | 102 | 12 | 634 | 1,049 | 489 | 62 | 25 | 59 | 7 | 407 | 662 | 298 | 75 | 14 | 43 | 5 | 227 |
Communications, journalism, and related programs | 461 | 275 | 24 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 127 | 206 | 118 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 66 | 255 | 157 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 61 |
Communications technologies | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Computer and information sciences | 1,416 | 410 | 24 | 6 | 105 | 6 | 865 | 1,109 | 323 | 15 | 3 | 77 | 3 | 688 | 307 | 87 | 9 | 3 | 28 | 3 | 177 |
Construction trades | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Education | 7,584 | 5,107 | 1,093 | 362 | 240 | 53 | 729 | 2,664 | 1,858 | 319 | 131 | 75 | 19 | 262 | 4,920 | 3,249 | 774 | 231 | 165 | 34 | 467 |
Engineering | 7,396 | 1,960 | 116 | 104 | 510 | 7 | 4,699 | 5,913 | 1,576 | 71 | 72 | 369 | 7 | 3,818 | 1,483 | 384 | 45 | 32 | 141 | 0 | 881 |
Engineering technologies1 | 75 | 30 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 34 | 50 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
English language and literature/letters | 1,254 | 965 | 67 | 42 | 48 | 6 | 126 | 510 | 418 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 51 | 744 | 547 | 51 | 31 | 34 | 6 | 75 |
Family and consumer sciences | 340 | 193 | 33 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 91 | 71 | 42 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 269 | 151 | 30 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 69 |
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics | 1,074 | 536 | 18 | 102 | 57 | 1 | 360 | 436 | 227 | 7 | 46 | 13 | 1 | 142 | 638 | 309 | 11 | 56 | 44 | 0 | 218 |
Health professions and related clinical sciences | 7,128 | 5,340 | 356 | 207 | 517 | 18 | 690 | 1,959 | 1,337 | 78 | 62 | 166 | 8 | 308 | 5,169 | 4,003 | 278 | 145 | 351 | 10 | 382 |
Legal professions and studies | 129 | 46 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 71 | 68 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 42 | 61 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities | 84 | 72 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 37 | 32 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 47 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Library science | 44 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 24 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Mathematics and statistics | 1,293 | 465 | 21 | 29 | 67 | 0 | 711 | 911 | 353 | 16 | 17 | 46 | 0 | 479 | 382 | 112 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 0 | 232 |
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 | 987 | 615 | 43 | 52 | 55 | 5 | 217 | 461 | 268 | 16 | 27 | 21 | 3 | 126 | 526 | 347 | 27 | 25 | 34 | 2 | 91 |
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies | 194 | 130 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 41 | 103 | 69 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 91 | 61 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 17 |
Philosophy and religious studies | 578 | 410 | 41 | 21 | 24 | 3 | 79 | 420 | 297 | 25 | 17 | 19 | 3 | 59 | 158 | 113 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 20 |
Physical sciences and science technologies | 4,489 | 2,092 | 63 | 100 | 249 | 9 | 1,976 | 3,143 | 1,483 | 38 | 64 | 140 | 9 | 1,409 | 1,346 | 609 | 25 | 36 | 109 | 0 | 567 |
Precision production | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 4,921 | 3,687 | 315 | 290 | 278 | 39 | 312 | 1,347 | 1,030 | 56 | 75 | 71 | 11 | 104 | 3,574 | 2,657 | 259 | 215 | 207 | 28 | 208 |
Public administration and social service professions | 704 | 412 | 106 | 28 | 27 | 6 | 125 | 285 | 156 | 37 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 68 | 419 | 256 | 69 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 57 |
Security and protective services | 80 | 57 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 42 | 31 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Social sciences and history | 3,914 | 2,244 | 182 | 153 | 181 | 22 | 1,132 | 2,218 | 1,251 | 82 | 82 | 70 | 11 | 722 | 1,696 | 993 | 100 | 71 | 111 | 11 | 410 |
Social sciences | 3,062 | 1,591 | 146 | 124 | 139 | 17 | 1,045 | 1,712 | 847 | 61 | 69 | 57 | 9 | 669 | 1,350 | 744 | 85 | 55 | 82 | 8 | 376 |
History | 852 | 653 | 36 | 29 | 42 | 5 | 87 | 506 | 404 | 21 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 53 | 346 | 249 | 15 | 16 | 29 | 3 | 34 |
Theology and religious vocations | 1,429 | 840 | 171 | 27 | 94 | 6 | 291 | 1,123 | 675 | 104 | 21 | 75 | 4 | 244 | 306 | 165 | 67 | 6 | 19 | 2 | 47 |
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 | 1,383 | 900 | 26 | 32 | 93 | 6 | 326 | 639 | 452 | 17 | 18 | 28 | 3 | 121 | 744 | 448 | 9 | 14 | 65 | 3 | 205 |
1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies" which are listed separately. NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. 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. Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level. Excludes first-professional, such as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2005-06 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2006. (This table was prepared June 2007.) |