Table 322.30.

Bachelor's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2011-12 and 2012-13

Field of study	2011-12										2012-13
	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	1,792,163	1,212,417	185,916	169,736	126,177	121,550	4,627	11,498	27,234	59,185	1,840,164	1,221,576	191,180	186,650	130,144	125,098	5,046	11,445	34,338	64,831
Agriculture and natural resources	30,972	25,980	944	1,611	1,260	1,206	54	257	454	466	33,593	27,648	960	2,050	1,358	1,283	75	285	649	643
Architecture and related services	9,727	6,420	504	1,174	884	871	13	48	126	571	9,757	6,253	505	1,257	892	871	21	36	160	654
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	9,228	4,499	1,323	1,593	1,088	1,043	45	192	294	239	8,851	4,304	1,148	1,588	1,008	957	51	225	360	218
Biological and biomedical sciences	95,850	59,564	7,234	7,875	16,170	15,909	261	588	1,633	2,786	100,319	61,737	7,642	8,884	16,498	16,245	253	539	2,088	2,931
Business	367,235	233,073	44,397	34,344	28,062	26,977	1,085	2,146	4,364	20,849	360,823	225,365	42,451	35,421	27,074	25,899	1,175	2,079	5,374	23,059
Communication, journalism, and related programs	83,771	59,829	9,211	7,356	3,625	3,429	196	426	1,293	2,031	84,817	59,422	9,116	8,223	3,654	3,452	202	426	1,688	2,288
Communications technologies	4,983	3,247	545	564	268	258	10	25	121	213	4,989	3,167	622	610	242	237	5	22	120	206
Computer and information sciences	47,406	30,214	5,425	4,006	4,416	4,256	160	257	727	2,361	50,962	31,722	6,015	4,502	5,106	4,937	169	292	945	2,380
Construction trades	377	326	10	26	9	9	0	1	2	3	244	186	6	36	5	3	2	1	9	1
Education	105,656	86,047	7,634	6,970	2,149	1,953	196	767	1,055	1,034	104,647	84,173	8,300	7,153	2,121	1,925	196	725	1,249	926
Engineering	81,371	54,224	3,328	6,266	9,731	9,559	172	318	1,163	6,341	85,980	56,120	3,620	7,041	10,590	10,394	196	360	1,475	6,774
Engineering technologies and engineering-related    fields1	16,656	12,259	1,704	1,176	692	669	23	150	182	493	16,493	11,762	1,684	1,369	728	693	35	167	186	597
English language and literature/letters	53,765	40,162	4,138	4,983	2,511	2,410	101	319	1,111	541	52,424	38,541	4,102	5,313	2,429	2,335	94	280	1,205	554
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	23,441	16,473	2,941	2,016	1,203	1,167	36	164	312	332	23,934	16,411	3,033	2,267	1,336	1,275	61	141	408	338
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	21,756	14,604	944	3,977	1,261	1,235	26	99	442	429	21,673	14,145	964	4,146	1,278	1,248	30	118	549	473
Health professions and related programs	163,675	114,262	19,823	12,012	12,146	11,571	575	959	2,168	2,305	181,144	124,572	22,060	14,437	13,618	12,970	648	1,101	3,014	2,342
Homeland security, law enforcement, and    firefighting	54,091	31,280	11,139	8,497	1,573	1,394	179	443	850	309	60,269	34,528	12,299	9,836	1,757	1,552	205	482	1,003	364
Legal professions and studies	4,595	2,787	822	586	232	223	9	29	71	68	4,425	2,713	759	590	202	194	8	30	87	44
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	46,961	31,142	6,796	5,027	1,737	1,605	132	521	820	918	46,761	30,689	6,619	5,298	1,686	1,547	139	511	1,022	936
Library science	95	89	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	102	90	6	4	0	0	0	0	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	18,841	12,735	976	1,308	1,876	1,837	39	59	247	1,640	20,453	13,276	1,022	1,526	2,119	2,080	39	80	351	2,079
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	250	171	12	17	12	12	0	5	1	32	267	201	10	14	11	10	1	5	3	23
Military technologies and applied sciences	86	51	25	6	0	0	0	1	1	2	105	61	29	12	1	1	0	1	0	1
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	45,717	30,099	5,053	5,951	2,639	2,532	107	357	708	910	47,654	30,520	5,575	6,473	2,756	2,605	151	359	1,008	963
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	38,998	29,172	3,750	3,185	1,497	1,386	111	267	524	603	42,714	31,514	4,146	3,737	1,685	1,569	116	262	774	596
Philosophy and religious studies	12,645	9,467	964	1,052	622	598	24	85	254	201	12,793	9,228	1,027	1,175	750	722	28	76	315	222
Physical sciences and science technologies	26,664	18,982	1,541	1,682	2,741	2,702	39	154	447	1,117	28,050	19,659	1,519	1,981	2,887	2,825	62	156	536	1,312
Precision production	37	30	2	1	2	2	0	0	2	0	36	25	0	2	6	6	0	0	1	2
Psychology	109,099	70,051	13,576	13,338	7,332	7,087	245	755	2,045	2,002	114,450	72,084	14,125	15,172	7,600	7,318	282	705	2,538	2,226
Public administration and social services	29,695	16,963	6,915	3,736	1,013	907	106	287	462	319	31,950	17,849	7,527	4,230	1,118	1,015	103	300	589	337
Social sciences and history	178,534	117,846	17,146	19,551	13,020	12,550	470	1,115	3,463	6,393	177,778	114,139	16,961	21,339	12,886	12,473	413	1,012	4,098	7,343
Social sciences	143,412	89,719	15,427	16,583	11,791	11,382	409	887	2,860	6,145	143,587	87,074	15,303	18,206	11,719	11,357	362	830	3,370	7,085
History	35,122	28,127	1,719	2,968	1,229	1,168	61	228	603	248	34,191	27,065	1,658	3,133	1,167	1,116	51	182	728	258
Theology and religious vocations	9,304	7,751	637	385	233	217	16	42	88	168	9,385	7,672	689	445	250	224	26	41	101	187
Transportation and materials moving	4,876	3,737	343	380	185	163	22	44	53	134	4,526	3,233	314	356	220	192	28	22	260	121
Visual and performing arts	95,806	68,881	6,112	9,082	5,987	5,812	175	618	1,751	3,375	97,796	68,567	6,325	10,163	6,273	6,041	232	606	2,171	3,691
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. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2012 and Fall 2013, Completions component. (This table was prepared September 2014.)