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Table 298. Bachelor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2007-08
Field of study Total Males Females
Total White Black His- panic Asian/ Pacific Islander American Indian/ Alaska Native Non- resi- dent alien Total White Black His- panic Asian/ Pacific Islander American Indian/ Alaska Native Non- resi- dent alien Total White Black His- panic Asian/ Pacific Islander American Indian/ Alaska Native Non- resi- dent 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 1,563,069 1,122,675 152,457 123,048 109,058 11,509 44,322 667,928 492,137 52,247 47,884 49,485 4,523 21,652 895,141 630,538 100,210 75,164 59,573 6,986 22,670
Agriculture and natural resources 24,113 20,733 761 1,174 916 217 312 12,634 11,130 353 483 406 108 154 11,479 9,603 408 691 510 109 158
Architecture and related services 9,805 6,968 490 1,052 818 60 417 5,579 4,071 280 620 379 28 201 4,226 2,897 210 432 439 32 216
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies 8,454 4,654 1,227 1,196 1,017 192 168 2,641 1,468 387 349 310 70 57 5,813 3,186 840 847 707 122 111
Biological and biomedical sciences 77,854 50,875 6,113 5,180 12,961 522 2,203 31,637 21,353 1,639 2,031 5,520 223 871 46,217 29,522 4,474 3,149 7,441 299 1,332
Business 335,254 229,211 37,981 26,099 24,701 2,226 15,036 170,978 123,780 14,512 11,789 12,213 1,010 7,674 164,276 105,431 23,469 14,310 12,488 1,216 7,362
                                           
Communications, journalism, and related programs 76,382 58,104 7,563 5,392 3,378 434 1,511 27,043 21,052 2,567 1,728 1,064 133 499 49,339 37,052 4,996 3,664 2,314 301 1,012
Communications technologies 4,666 3,328 456 430 285 26 141 3,341 2,434 274 323 200 18 92 1,325 894 182 107 85 8 49
Computer and information sciences 38,476 25,734 4,461 2,764 3,470 246 1,801 31,694 22,100 2,960 2,258 2,801 184 1,391 6,782 3,634 1,501 506 669 62 410
Construction trades 180 161 7 6 6 0 0 172 157 6 3 6 0 0 8 4 1 3 0 0 0
Education 102,582 86,545 6,595 5,436 2,122 909 975 21,828 18,359 1,621 998 377 204 269 80,754 68,186 4,974 4,438 1,745 705 706
                                           
Engineering 68,676 47,617 3,252 4,419 8,850 360 4,178 56,067 39,774 2,309 3,451 6,861 307 3,365 12,609 7,843 943 968 1,989 53 813
Engineering technologies1  14,765 11,193 1,397 996 691 118 370 13,266 10,238 1,132 860 631 102 303 1,499 955 265 136 60 16 67
English language and literature/letters 55,038 43,421 4,223 3,871 2,630 367 526 17,681 14,332 1,079 1,190 816 126 138 37,357 29,089 3,144 2,681 1,814 241 388
Family and consumer sciences 21,870 16,540 2,396 1,400 1,081 201 252 2,659 1,915 365 166 153 20 40 19,211 14,625 2,031 1,234 928 181 212
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 20,977 14,865 874 3,484 1,161 120 473 6,254 4,552 238 951 353 34 126 14,723 10,313 636 2,533 808 86 347
                                           
Health professions and related clinical sciences 111,478 82,201 12,842 6,749 7,041 834 1,811 16,286 11,314 1,807 1,173 1,494 126 372 95,192 70,887 11,035 5,576 5,547 708 1,439
Legal professions and studies 3,771 2,422 643 403 245 30 28 1,089 759 115 96 101 8 10 2,682 1,663 528 307 144 22 18
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,
   and humanities
46,940 31,585 6,533 4,999 1,944 515 1,364 15,876 11,283 2,138 1,206 592 169 488 31,064 20,302 4,395 3,793 1,352 346 876
Library science 68 67 1 0 0 0 0 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 62 61 1 0 0 0 0
Mathematics and statistics 15,192 11,139 818 943 1,531 77 684 8,490 6,224 416 510 882 51 407 6,702 4,915 402 433 649 26 277
                                           
Mechanics and repair technologies 232 186 11 11 7 5 12 219 174 10 11 7 5 12 13 12 1 0 0 0 0
Military technologies 39 31 4 3 0 1 0 35 29 2 3 0 1 0 4 2 2 0 0 0 0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies 36,149 24,739 3,239 4,352 2,651 249 919 11,279 7,990 973 972 927 80 337 24,870 16,749 2,266 3,380 1,724 169 582
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies 29,931 23,204 2,937 2,044 1,023 230 493 15,615 11,868 1,712 1,156 527 116 236 14,316 11,336 1,225 888 496 114 257
Philosophy and religious studies 12,257 9,893 665 769 701 77 152 7,696 6,255 364 502 425 50 100 4,561 3,638 301 267 276 27 52
                                           
Physical sciences and science technologies 21,934 16,307 1,264 1,138 2,225 149 851 12,959 10,057 536 636 1,163 70 497 8,975 6,250 728 502 1,062 79 354
Precision production 33 25 2 4 1 0 1 22 18 2 1 1 0 0 11 7 0 3 0 0 1
Psychology 92,587 64,410 10,940 8,816 6,274 676 1,471 21,202 14,946 2,096 1,921 1,754 160 325 71,385 49,464 8,844 6,895 4,520 516 1,146
Public administration and social service
   professions
23,493 13,726 5,447 2,915 848 256 301 4,202 2,553 829 501 195 55 69 19,291 11,173 4,618 2,414 653 201 232
Security and protective services 40,235 25,359 7,599 5,269 1,253 348 407 20,149 14,149 2,695 2,274 698 142 191 20,086 11,210 4,904 2,995 555 206 216
                                           
Social sciences and history 167,363 118,552 15,290 14,646 13,051 1,376 4,448 84,868 63,521 5,821 6,451 6,218 637 2,220 82,495 55,031 9,469 8,195 6,833 739 2,228
Social sciences 132,922 90,112 13,545 12,222 11,736 1,088 4,219 64,512 46,324 5,009 5,081 5,530 468 2,100 68,410 43,788 8,536 7,141 6,206 620 2,119
History 34,441 28,440 1,745 2,424 1,315 288 229 20,356 17,197 812 1,370 688 169 120 14,085 11,243 933 1,054 627 119 109
Theology and religious vocations 8,992 7,646 599 323 197 31 196 5,873 5,089 294 202 127 15 146 3,119 2,557 305 121 70 16 50
Transportation and materials moving 5,203 4,159 347 345 194 44 114 4,604 3,688 305 311 170 35 95 599 471 42 34 24 9 19
Visual and performing arts 87,703 67,039 5,155 6,416 5,782 613 2,698 33,862 25,488 2,306 2,756 2,113 236 963 53,841 41,551 2,849 3,660 3,669 377 1,735
Other and not classified 377 36 325 4 3 0 9 122 11 104 2 1 0 4 255 25 221 2 2 0 5
1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately.              
NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. 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.              
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2007-08 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2008. (This table was prepared June 2009.)              

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