Table 319.

Degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by control of institution, level of degree, and field of study: 2010-11

Field of study	All institutions				Public institutions				Private nonprofit institutions				Private for-profit institutions
	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de- grees1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
All fields, total	942,327	1,715,913	730,635	163,765	696,788	1,088,297	339,250	81,938	51,969	513,106	313,200	76,608	193,570	114,510	78,185	5,219
Agriculture and natural resources	6,425	28,623	5,773	1,246	6,184	24,117	4,552	1,164	241	4,333	1,174	82	0	173	47	0
Architecture and related services	569	9,832	7,788	205	539	7,074	4,732	138	30	2,698	2,972	67	0	60	84	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	209	9,100	1,914	278	197	5,804	1,113	164	12	3,295	801	114	0	1	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	3,245	90,003	11,327	7,693	3,105	61,716	6,842	5,118	140	28,184	4,485	2,575	0	103	0	0
Business	139,986	365,093	187,213	2,286	79,094	201,761	65,397	879	11,673	113,747	85,326	616	49,219	49,585	36,490	791
Communication, journalism, and related programs	3,051	83,274	8,303	577	2,793	58,734	3,849	463	101	23,578	4,407	114	157	962	47	0
Communications technologies	4,209	4,858	502	1	2,907	1,347	96	0	186	1,437	231	1	1,116	2,074	175	0
Computer and information sciences	37,677	43,072	19,446	1,588	17,905	20,912	10,008	1,085	1,790	10,241	7,628	483	17,982	11,919	1,810	20
Construction trades	5,402	328	0	0	4,214	323	0	0	214	5	0	0	974	0	0	0
Education	20,459	103,992	185,009	9,623	16,001	72,538	87,350	5,451	674	29,474	78,038	2,918	3,784	1,980	19,621	1,254
Engineering	2,825	76,376	38,719	8,369	2,726	58,342	25,942	5,993	48	17,666	12,462	2,376	51	368	315	0
Engineering technologies and engineering-
related fields2	35,521	16,187	4,515	56	23,525	12,707	2,734	32	1,342	1,737	1,559	24	10,654	1,743	222	0
English language and literature/letters	2,019	52,744	9,476	1,344	1,482	36,627	6,095	1,022	17	15,992	3,348	322	520	125	33	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,532	22,444	2,918	320	7,956	18,653	1,919	272	396	3,642	739	44	180	149	260	4
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,876	21,706	3,727	1,158	1,525	15,084	2,713	746	351	6,617	1,014	412	0	5	0	0
Health professions and related programs	201,831	143,430	75,579	60,153	123,295	83,486	34,534	31,128	17,572	46,321	32,101	28,161	60,964	13,623	8,944	864
Homeland security, law enforcement, and
firefighting	44,923	47,602	7,433	131	26,101	27,871	3,037	102	1,560	10,063	2,171	7	17,262	9,668	2,225	22
Legal professions and studies	11,620	4,429	6,300	44,877	5,578	2,084	1,729	15,099	586	1,267	4,364	28,484	5,456	1,078	207	1,294
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,
and humanities	306,670	46,727	3,971	95	294,203	32,102	1,527	37	9,625	14,462	2,394	34	2,842	163	50	24
Library science	160	96	7,727	50	160	96	6,350	48	0	0	1,377	2	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	1,644	17,182	5,843	1,586	1,626	11,512	4,246	1,146	18	5,666	1,597	440	0	4	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	19,969	226	0	0	11,503	166	0	0	1,832	60	0	0	6,634	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	856	64	0	0	810	42	0	0	34	5	0	0	12	17	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	23,729	42,228	6,748	660	18,987	29,273	3,656	434	131	9,586	2,529	226	4,611	3,369	563	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	2,366	35,924	6,553	257	1,596	26,591	4,797	241	181	9,086	1,617	16	589	247	139	0
Philosophy and religious studies	283	12,836	1,833	805	129	5,819	623	310	154	6,935	1,175	493	0	82	35	2
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,078	24,712	6,386	5,295	4,992	17,281	4,760	3,860	69	7,427	1,626	1,435	17	4	0	0
Precision production	3,254	43	5	0	2,857	6	0	0	82	37	5	0	315	0	0	0
Psychology	3,866	100,893	25,051	5,851	3,577	68,027	8,066	2,416	218	30,052	12,950	2,619	71	2,814	4,035	816
Public administration and social services	7,472	26,774	38,634	851	4,860	16,503	23,583	507	366	7,787	13,708	225	2,246	2,484	1,343	119
Social sciences and history	12,767	177,144	21,084	4,390	12,646	119,754	11,419	2,901	102	54,718	9,169	1,489	19	2,672	496	0
Social sciences	12,067	142,145	17,081	3,482	11,970	95,923	8,694	2,288	91	43,807	8,192	1,194	6	2,415	195	0
History	700	34,999	4,003	908	676	23,831	2,725	613	11	10,911	977	295	13	257	301	0
Theology and religious vocations	758	9,074	13,191	2,374	3	1	0	0	751	8,966	13,124	2,366	4	107	67	8
Transportation and materials moving	1,697	4,941	1,390	0	1,174	2,165	103	0	446	2,668	1,216	0	77	108	71	0
Visual and performing arts	21,379	93,956	16,277	1,646	12,538	49,779	7,478	1,182	1,027	35,354	7,893	463	7,814	8,823	906	1

1 Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level, as well as such degrees as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees that were formerly classified as first-professional degrees.

2 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. 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 2011, Completions component. (This table was prepared May 2012.)