Table 329.

Bachelor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2009-10 and 2010-11

Field of study	2009-10							2010-11
	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	Two or more races	Non- resi- dent alien
												Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
All fields, total	1,650,014	1,167,499	164,844	140,316	117,422	12,399	47,534	1,715,913	1,182,405	173,017	154,063	121,066	116,794	4,272	11,933	20,804	52,625
Agriculture and natural resources	26,336	22,430	829	1,249	1,180	243	405	28,623	24,278	811	1,469	1,121	1,080	41	240	268	436
Architecture and related services	10,051	6,983	500	1,175	911	61	421	9,832	6,619	493	1,228	874	857	17	51	116	451
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	8,621	4,757	1,173	1,266	1,053	178	194	9,100	4,534	1,447	1,446	986	943	43	206	266	215
Biological and biomedical sciences	86,400	55,235	6,714	6,363	15,027	573	2,488	90,003	56,460	6,885	6,960	15,234	15,008	226	567	1,178	2,719
Business	358,293	241,716	41,874	30,176	26,316	2,293	15,918	365,093	238,786	42,572	32,394	27,510	26,583	927	2,269	3,541	18,021
Communication, journalism, and related programs	81,266	60,678	8,410	6,433	3,640	492	1,613	83,274	60,577	8,761	6,958	3,674	3,492	182	486	1,008	1,810
Communications technologies	4,782	3,391	478	455	304	33	121	4,858	3,360	519	494	264	257	7	27	69	125
Computer and information sciences	39,589	26,565	4,565	2,942	3,372	279	1,866	43,072	28,031	4,914	3,390	3,916	3,804	112	251	545	2,025
Construction trades	273	258	2	5	6	2	0	328	295	8	11	8	5	3	1	1	4
Education	101,265	84,474	6,808	6,109	1,990	898	986	103,992	85,234	7,115	6,585	2,290	1,843	447	856	787	1,125
Engineering	72,654	50,456	3,236	5,043	9,011	388	4,520	76,376	51,718	3,245	5,549	9,344	9,220	124	334	925	5,261
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	15,596	11,858	1,452	1,062	656	137	431	16,187	11,989	1,506	1,229	711	694	17	155	137	460
English language and literature/letters	53,231	41,617	4,028	4,090	2,614	361	521	52,744	40,147	3,942	4,507	2,473	2,367	106	332	786	557
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	21,818	16,065	2,457	1,633	1,155	219	289	22,444	16,065	2,623	1,837	1,171	1,132	39	196	238	314
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	21,516	15,227	880	3,545	1,344	125	395	21,706	14,821	922	3,684	1,321	1,297	24	128	384	446
Health professions and related programs	129,634	93,675	15,046	8,826	9,048	976	2,063	143,430	102,055	17,119	9,882	9,914	9,506	408	963	1,412	2,085
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	43,667	26,452	8,720	6,388	1,386	406	315	47,602	28,088	9,687	7,241	1,349	1,225	124	439	538	260
Legal professions and studies	3,886	2,493	687	408	228	37	33	4,429	2,769	787	547	219	211	8	26	53	28
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	46,953	31,707	6,815	4,514	1,765	531	1,621	46,727	31,056	6,853	4,911	1,680	1,552	128	532	632	1,063
Library science	85	79	2	3	1	0	0	96	85	3	3	3	3	0	0	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	16,030	11,510	854	1,027	1,671	81	887	17,182	11,836	840	1,158	1,858	1,822	36	85	216	1,189
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	206	167	9	11	12	0	7	226	158	13	18	14	13	1	4	1	18
Military technologies and applied sciences	56	47	3	5	0	1	0	64	43	16	2	0	0	0	2	1	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	37,648	25,817	3,687	4,648	2,467	341	688	42,228	28,286	4,375	5,254	2,656	2,557	99	352	516	789
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	33,318	25,678	3,257	2,371	1,260	279	473	35,924	26,998	3,548	2,763	1,363	1,246	117	284	394	574
Philosophy and religious studies	12,504	9,740	849	910	742	88	175	12,836	9,752	963	970	689	660	29	79	191	192
Physical sciences and science technologies	23,379	17,245	1,290	1,279	2,464	168	933	24,712	17,842	1,329	1,466	2,538	2,491	47	149	340	1,048
Precision production	29	20	0	1	6	0	2	43	29	0	4	5	5	0	0	0	5
Psychology	97,216	65,521	11,981	10,517	6,701	806	1,690	100,893	66,122	12,397	11,629	6,797	6,583	214	691	1,580	1,677
Public administration and social services	25,414	15,053	5,745	3,045	912	327	332	26,774	15,336	6,093	3,305	968	876	92	293	497	282
Social sciences and history	172,780	119,767	15,976	16,823	13,860	1,356	4,998	177,144	118,979	16,682	18,108	13,670	13,261	409	1,238	2,556	5,911
Social sciences	137,582	90,860	14,313	14,035	12,533	1,086	4,755	142,145	90,734	15,051	15,192	12,442	12,077	365	1,001	2,073	5,652
History	35,198	28,907	1,663	2,788	1,327	270	243	34,999	28,245	1,631	2,916	1,228	1,184	44	237	483	259
Theology and religious vocations	8,718	7,366	560	361	209	53	169	9,074	7,555	585	380	240	215	25	39	58	217
Transportation and materials moving	4,998	3,954	358	362	195	39	90	4,941	3,812	285	379	215	206	9	42	58	150
Visual and performing arts	91,802	69,498	5,599	7,271	5,916	628	2,890	93,956	68,690	5,679	8,302	5,991	5,780	211	616	1,510	3,168
Other and not classified	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 and Fall 2011, Completions component. (This table was prepared June 2012.)