Table 324.25.

Doctor'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	170,217	109,365	11,794	9,223	17,896	17,562	334	915	1,571	19,453	175,038	110,775	12,084	10,107	18,408	18,022	386	900	2,438	20,326
Agriculture and natural resources	1,333	637	42	47	41	41	0	9	4	553	1,411	707	45	53	39	38	1	4	7	556
Architecture and related services	255	95	12	9	28	27	1	1	5	105	247	97	13	10	30	29	1	0	7	90
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	302	134	42	29	28	28	0	8	4	57	291	148	43	30	21	21	0	11	2	36
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,935	4,304	300	352	747	739	8	35	63	2,134	7,943	4,250	323	409	735	728	7	27	69	2,130
Business	2,538	1,237	403	88	170	167	3	15	12	613	2,836	1,337	489	125	202	198	4	15	20	648
Communication, journalism, and related programs	563	352	33	23	29	27	2	2	8	116	612	372	45	22	25	25	0	4	7	137
Communications technologies	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1,698	597	46	31	146	146	0	2	5	871	1,826	612	62	46	145	145	0	0	3	958
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	10,118	6,446	1,937	682	365	350	15	74	73	541	10,572	6,652	1,981	704	429	396	33	82	101	623
Engineering	8,722	2,775	184	198	622	620	2	11	43	4,889	9,356	2,911	191	213	644	636	8	7	63	5,327
Engineering technologies and engineering-related    fields1	134	74	9	2	5	5	0	2	2	40	111	41	4	4	7	7	0	1	0	54
English language and literature/letters	1,427	1,085	64	71	49	47	2	11	10	137	1,373	1,069	60	60	51	51	0	7	17	109
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	325	191	41	3	17	16	1	1	2	70	351	182	49	10	20	20	0	2	3	85
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,231	657	17	117	60	59	1	2	12	366	1,304	674	16	136	46	45	1	8	12	412
Health professions and related programs	62,097	41,826	3,775	2,942	10,591	10,452	139	344	550	2,069	64,195	42,846	3,738	3,356	11,018	10,871	147	292	861	2,084
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	117	81	7	7	1	1	0	1	1	19	147	100	19	2	4	4	0	0	0	22
Legal professions and studies	46,836	34,329	3,398	3,561	3,679	3,545	134	330	560	979	47,246	33,921	3,494	3,824	3,670	3,509	161	327	1,013	997
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	93	68	7	2	3	3	0	3	1	9	98	75	7	5	0	0	0	1	0	10
Library science	60	32	0	1	6	6	0	0	1	20	50	28	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	16
Mathematics and statistics	1,669	696	23	43	79	77	2	0	10	818	1,823	716	30	38	112	112	0	3	12	912
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
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
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	727	432	67	38	34	32	2	5	6	145	730	433	55	29	41	40	1	5	6	161
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	288	187	17	8	8	7	1	0	3	65	295	198	24	5	8	7	1	4	0	56
Philosophy and religious studies	778	541	36	27	33	33	0	2	9	130	796	548	28	29	35	34	1	0	17	139
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,370	2,621	104	155	287	282	5	9	40	2,154	5,514	2,716	120	154	265	265	0	13	48	2,198
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	5,936	4,312	445	394	357	354	3	27	70	331	6,323	4,565	497	435	350	342	8	44	83	349
Public administration and social services	890	496	145	51	44	43	1	0	9	145	979	538	168	36	53	51	2	1	8	175
Social sciences and history	4,597	2,611	214	214	210	207	3	12	39	1,297	4,619	2,675	203	234	212	207	5	25	44	1,226
Social sciences	3,628	1,918	149	172	179	178	1	10	30	1,170	3,616	1,943	159	170	180	176	4	14	39	1,111
History	969	693	65	42	31	29	2	2	9	127	1,003	732	44	64	32	31	1	11	5	115
Theology and religious vocations	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2,175	1,262	335	56	122	118	4	15	13	372
Transportation and materials moving	2,446	1,468	386	65	155	149	6	7	19	346	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Visual and performing arts	1,728	1,077	40	63	102	99	3	2	10	434	1,814	1,101	40	82	123	122	1	2	22	444
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 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. 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.)