Table 321.50.

Associate's degrees conferred to females by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2010-11 and 2011-12

Field of study	2010-11										2011-12
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/ Alaska Native	Two or more races	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								Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
All fields, total	581,018	366,032	87,107	77,934	26,695	24,031	2,664	6,449	7,018	9,783	625,548	381,808	95,762	93,781	28,245	25,990	2,255	6,795	9,216	9,941
Agriculture and natural resources	2,336	2,120	21	86	28	24	4	42	22	17	2,460	2,217	29	103	29	25	4	47	25	10
Architecture and related services	259	164	10	53	19	17	2	2	2	9	261	147	18	65	19	18	1	0	4	8
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	149	35	19	23	2	2	0	62	3	5	132	30	9	30	6	6	0	49	3	5
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,129	1,080	189	434	311	284	27	39	22	54	2,554	1,204	222	655	331	326	5	49	36	57
Business	88,815	52,515	16,702	10,341	4,582	4,132	450	1,088	1,084	2,503	90,319	52,477	16,404	11,676	4,744	4,379	365	1,099	1,375	2,544
Communication, journalism, and related programs	1,640	1,002	149	298	93	84	9	11	14	73	1,870	1,079	213	360	88	74	14	8	40	82
Communications technologies	1,435	1,024	145	145	48	45	3	17	22	34	1,571	1,113	126	183	72	72	0	10	41	26
Computer and information sciences	8,617	5,307	1,818	769	364	323	41	118	73	168	8,871	5,403	1,799	867	437	392	45	114	134	117
Construction trades	297	205	40	31	4	4	0	5	9	3	269	178	43	26	4	3	1	5	11	2
Education	17,726	11,378	2,637	2,645	359	284	75	382	168	157	17,898	11,190	2,722	2,866	336	298	38	407	183	194
Engineering	399	242	33	61	30	29	1	5	2	26	451	224	34	81	61	56	5	10	2	39
Engineering technologies and engineering-related    fields1	4,427	2,892	680	517	161	146	15	61	60	56	4,286	2,792	649	490	180	164	16	50	66	59
English language and literature/letters	1,372	745	182	296	105	98	7	11	14	19	1,429	768	161	337	90	83	7	16	31	26
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,174	4,264	1,818	1,526	317	288	29	72	58	119	9,134	4,650	2,009	1,785	399	371	28	96	84	111
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,499	990	68	324	39	30	9	14	19	45	1,563	999	86	388	29	26	3	5	18	38
Health professions and related programs	171,758	119,691	24,375	16,035	7,045	6,372	673	1,529	1,801	1,282	184,023	124,883	27,163	19,423	7,370	6,866	504	1,687	2,268	1,229
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	20,992	10,996	5,070	3,895	328	248	80	264	368	71	23,650	11,442	5,734	5,338	411	300	111	293	340	92
Legal professions and studies	9,785	6,340	1,637	1,263	243	199	44	86	155	61	10,503	6,671	1,732	1,549	239	218	21	104	155	53
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	188,114	116,084	24,970	30,414	8,519	7,656	863	1,979	2,503	3,645	207,375	123,135	29,516	36,430	8,997	8,240	757	2,061	3,434	3,802
Library science	139	113	5	15	2	2	0	1	3	0	140	118	1	14	3	3	0	3	0	1
Mathematics and statistics	620	257	48	159	117	117	0	10	9	20	479	222	12	131	73	69	4	5	4	32
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	971	623	144	124	22	20	2	35	17	6	1,005	668	135	130	18	15	3	26	20	8
Military technologies and applied sciences	163	101	24	22	9	7	2	3	4	0	216	124	51	20	13	11	2	2	6	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	14,824	8,386	1,491	2,602	1,718	1,617	101	130	152	345	17,096	9,311	1,641	3,410	1,975	1,867	108	130	272	357
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	934	594	97	172	33	29	4	18	9	11	1,125	655	132	244	29	27	2	16	23	26
Philosophy and religious studies	106	39	25	19	19	19	0	2	1	1	127	52	46	20	2	2	0	2	1	4
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,120	1,026	353	271	283	262	21	30	35	122	2,420	1,173	395	362	289	278	11	27	45	129
Precision production	230	185	12	14	6	5	1	10	3	0	202	153	21	13	2	1	1	10	3	0
Psychology	2,970	1,665	269	750	137	123	14	61	44	44	3,624	1,781	359	1,124	182	171	11	77	69	32
Public administration and social services	6,447	3,401	1,853	898	101	77	24	111	56	27	7,761	4,033	2,252	1,125	117	94	23	112	81	41
Social sciences and history	8,256	3,904	1,047	2,072	811	702	109	153	124	145	8,993	4,135	958	2,574	845	747	98	156	194	131
Social sciences	7,956	3,701	1,035	2,008	803	696	107	151	118	140	8,671	3,929	948	2,488	835	738	97	153	189	129
History	300	203	12	64	8	6	2	2	6	5	322	206	10	86	10	9	1	3	5	2
Theology and religious vocations	363	249	85	17	4	2	2	2	0	6	416	278	95	36	1	1	0	1	2	3
Transportation and materials moving	279	157	29	46	18	17	1	1	5	23	316	190	19	60	20	16	4	3	5	19
Visual and performing arts	12,673	8,258	1,062	1,597	818	767	51	95	157	686	13,009	8,313	976	1,866	834	771	63	115	241	664
Other and not classified	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: Data are for postsecondary institutions participating 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 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): "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 and Fall 2012, Completions component. (This table was prepared July 2013.)