Table 304.

Master's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2009-10

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	693,025	445,038	76,458	43,535	42,702	3,960	81,332	275,197	170,203	22,120	15,525	19,535	1,415	46,399	417,828	274,835	54,338	28,010	23,167	2,545	34,933
Agriculture and natural resources	5,211	3,849	176	199	195	46	746	2,509	1,901	75	86	79	22	346	2,702	1,948	101	113	116	24	400
Architecture and related services	7,280	4,826	348	439	509	28	1,130	4,012	2,789	176	259	216	12	560	3,268	2,037	172	180	293	16	570
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,775	955	176	198	146	32	268	654	361	60	86	45	7	95	1,121	594	116	112	101	25	173
Biological and biomedical sciences	10,725	6,273	608	523	1,441	54	1,826	4,611	2,750	193	210	656	27	775	6,114	3,523	415	313	785	27	1,051
Business	177,684	101,058	25,237	10,747	15,403	955	24,284	96,709	58,801	8,964	5,495	8,682	474	14,293	80,975	42,257	16,273	5,252	6,721	481	9,991
Communication, journalism, and related programs	7,636	4,779	821	491	375	41	1,129	2,410	1,641	189	145	98	14	323	5,226	3,138	632	346	277	27	806
Communications technologies	463	211	37	31	22	2	160	249	134	10	13	8	1	83	214	77	27	18	14	1	77
Computer and information sciences	17,953	6,174	1,324	694	1,752	54	7,955	13,017	4,828	772	537	1,193	42	5,645	4,936	1,346	552	157	559	12	2,310
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	182,139	138,974	19,258	12,985	5,054	1,060	4,808	41,296	31,858	4,069	2,833	1,050	275	1,211	140,843	107,116	15,189	10,152	4,004	785	3,597
Engineering	35,088	13,427	1,063	1,298	4,006	87	15,207	27,281	10,952	743	982	2,934	61	11,609	7,807	2,475	320	316	1,072	26	3,598
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	4,258	1,997	322	275	295	27	1,342	3,240	1,587	215	211	212	24	991	1,018	410	107	64	83	3	351
English language and literature/letters	9,201	7,474	478	504	312	63	370	3,006	2,486	112	188	85	25	110	6,195	4,988	366	316	227	38	260
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,580	1,808	333	135	98	21	185	362	256	44	15	10	1	36	2,218	1,552	289	120	88	20	149
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,755	2,099	84	567	213	36	756	1,254	754	27	183	59	10	221	2,501	1,345	57	384	154	26	535
Health professions and related programs	69,084	48,256	7,872	3,935	5,324	454	3,243	12,871	8,217	1,249	800	1,348	77	1,180	56,213	40,039	6,623	3,135	3,976	377	2,063
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	6,714	4,215	1,497	612	199	63	128	3,140	2,205	489	255	89	27	75	3,574	2,010	1,008	357	110	36	53
Legal professions and studies	5,734	1,861	320	222	289	28	3,014	2,803	978	101	98	125	14	1,487	2,931	883	219	124	164	14	1,527
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	3,804	2,797	366	232	143	27	239	1,522	1,129	112	84	66	7	124	2,282	1,668	254	148	77	20	115
Library science	7,448	6,217	369	449	279	42	92	1,394	1,156	61	87	61	6	23	6,054	5,061	308	362	218	36	69
Mathematics and statistics	5,634	2,532	166	167	472	12	2,285	3,376	1,564	113	113	253	4	1,329	2,258	968	53	54	219	8	956
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	5,973	4,039	462	426	368	51	627	2,118	1,479	131	127	115	10	256	3,855	2,560	331	299	253	41	371
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	5,617	4,296	546	232	146	27	370	3,032	2,307	301	121	86	12	205	2,585	1,989	245	111	60	15	165
Philosophy and religious studies	2,043	1,512	157	84	113	18	159	1,298	982	86	51	80	12	87	745	530	71	33	33	6	72
Physical sciences and science technologies	6,063	3,621	162	213	389	19	1,659	3,652	2,200	78	120	216	11	1,027	2,411	1,421	84	93	173	8	632
Precision production	10	8	1	0	0	0	1	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	1	0	0	0	1
Psychology	23,752	16,500	3,248	2,018	995	151	840	4,797	3,520	493	369	183	37	195	18,955	12,980	2,755	1,649	812	114	645
Public administration and social services	35,729	21,810	6,869	3,395	1,588	292	1,775	8,865	5,334	1,446	797	385	69	834	26,864	16,476	5,423	2,598	1,203	223	941
Social sciences and history	20,222	12,941	1,638	1,158	1,025	130	3,330	9,963	6,653	604	500	439	60	1,707	10,259	6,288	1,034	658	586	70	1,623
Social sciences	16,368	9,664	1,508	958	933	104	3,201	7,860	4,838	542	396	393	45	1,646	8,508	4,826	966	562	540	59	1,555
History	3,854	3,277	130	200	92	26	129	2,103	1,815	62	104	46	15	61	1,751	1,462	68	96	46	11	68
Theology and religious vocations	12,824	9,048	1,733	426	645	50	922	8,302	6,003	825	284	466	35	689	4,522	3,045	908	142	179	15	233
Transportation and materials moving	1,074	863	74	69	35	10	23	924	747	66	59	22	9	21	150	116	8	10	13	1	2
Visual and performing arts	15,552	10,618	713	811	871	80	2,459	6,525	4,626	316	417	274	30	862	9,027	5,992	397	394	597	50	1,597
Other and not classified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," 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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010, Completions component. (This table was prepared November 2011.)