Table 321.30.

Associate's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2012-13 and 2013-14

Field of study	2012-13										2013-14
	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	1,007,427	617,308	135,892	157,989	49,474	45,620	3,854	10,546	19,383	16,835	1,003,364	601,383	134,483	167,120	50,333	46,601	3,732	10,334	22,634	17,077
Agriculture and natural resources	6,826	6,175	92	301	55	46	9	109	67	27	7,051	6,344	92	309	58	50	8	124	91	33
Architecture and related services	468	187	21	192	40	40	0	2	4	22	414	171	25	171	28	28	0	0	5	14
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	271	58	29	66	23	12	11	74	15	6	362	74	40	94	32	15	17	86	26	10
Biological and biomedical sciences	4,185	1,907	358	1,090	544	522	22	82	94	110	4,479	2,047	377	1,210	568	548	20	71	97	109
Business	134,114	77,830	21,570	18,901	7,891	7,318	573	1,520	2,413	3,989	129,661	72,630	21,100	19,438	8,108	7,569	539	1,464	2,719	4,202
Communication, journalism, and related programs	4,299	2,483	396	905	229	212	17	26	129	131	4,935	2,527	500	1,288	285	271	14	25	162	148
Communications technologies	5,028	3,114	673	691	192	166	26	43	221	94	4,703	2,765	628	738	180	167	13	33	270	89
Computer and information sciences	38,954	24,529	6,103	4,646	2,083	1,918	165	390	676	527	37,601	23,024	6,090	4,696	2,058	1,918	140	383	798	552
Construction trades	5,038	3,813	544	435	76	62	14	100	55	15	4,831	3,564	510	399	146	126	20	85	115	12
Education	18,744	11,446	3,045	3,027	324	290	34	471	236	195	17,504	10,505	2,773	2,982	317	278	39	463	275	189
Engineering	3,732	2,313	256	557	326	305	21	44	61	175	4,269	2,523	316	708	394	372	22	37	94	197
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	33,752	23,200	4,180	4,038	1,148	1,047	101	409	516	261	31,768	21,799	3,889	3,773	1,122	1,050	72	373	548	264
English language and literature/letters	2,089	1,060	201	563	151	140	11	13	67	34	2,075	1,056	184	587	117	111	6	13	83	35
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,996	4,569	1,741	1,911	441	409	32	106	114	114	8,657	4,167	1,727	2,026	394	372	22	104	131	108
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,131	1,276	92	569	79	74	5	17	39	59	2,276	1,252	112	664	91	84	7	19	59	79
Health professions and related programs	214,040	143,141	29,632	24,618	9,682	8,960	722	2,056	3,452	1,459	208,660	138,255	28,371	25,427	9,762	9,012	750	1,987	3,543	1,315
Homeland security, law enforcement, and       firefighting	48,460	27,317	8,230	10,312	1,149	959	190	441	822	189	45,650	24,924	7,758	10,314	1,113	951	162	438	922	181
Legal professions and studies	11,862	7,356	1,891	1,910	287	263	24	160	199	59	10,496	6,578	1,596	1,672	250	226	24	104	233	63
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	344,171	206,750	44,298	59,929	16,130	14,850	1,280	3,137	7,309	6,618	353,438	208,376	45,471	63,875	16,720	15,396	1,324	3,150	8,966	6,880
Library science	181	132	6	27	12	12	0	1	3	0	192	145	12	22	8	8	0	1	3	1
Mathematics and statistics	1,801	809	73	491	294	291	3	14	51	69	2,140	877	63	704	325	322	3	22	54	95
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	20,487	14,303	1,845	2,784	660	550	110	315	426	154	20,052	13,732	1,791	2,903	739	631	108	286	464	137
Military technologies and applied sciences	1,002	687	116	129	41	38	3	8	21	0	1,084	679	155	151	34	27	7	5	60	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	27,407	14,745	2,228	5,876	3,196	3,084	112	194	618	550	28,164	14,864	2,257	6,616	2,983	2,869	114	194	759	491
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	3,455	1,982	424	686	149	137	12	43	87	84	4,348	2,440	507	933	212	191	21	44	143	69
Philosophy and religious studies	326	160	69	67	14	12	2	1	13	2	435	206	107	89	20	17	3	2	9	2
Physical sciences and science technologies	6,376	3,389	700	1,045	674	650	24	74	188	306	6,935	3,566	714	1,242	766	740	26	71	225	351
Precision production	3,345	2,707	166	275	87	76	11	45	54	11	3,903	3,185	178	305	106	93	13	48	77	4
Psychology	6,122	2,839	487	2,046	419	388	31	90	179	62	7,530	3,234	609	2,745	521	497	24	106	235	80
Public administration and social services	8,788	4,671	2,417	1,229	147	119	28	136	134	54	8,900	4,533	2,552	1,359	106	90	16	125	168	57
Social sciences and history	15,668	6,937	1,440	4,672	1,632	1,480	152	209	495	283	16,528	6,910	1,478	5,519	1,507	1,397	110	229	614	271
Social sciences	14,749	6,390	1,406	4,428	1,591	1,440	151	197	456	281	15,454	6,312	1,435	5,188	1,470	1,367	103	217	565	267
History	919	547	34	244	41	40	1	12	39	2	1,074	598	43	331	37	30	7	12	49	4
Theology and religious vocations	881	566	215	70	15	10	5	3	6	6	944	627	207	78	3	3	0	11	7	11
Transportation and materials moving	2,119	1,345	184	319	104	94	10	11	52	104	2,099	1,357	172	314	88	79	9	19	69	80
Visual and performing arts	22,309	13,512	2,170	3,612	1,180	1,086	94	202	567	1,066	21,280	12,447	2,122	3,769	1,172	1,093	79	212	610	948
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 degree-granting postsecondary institutions, which are institutions that 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 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 2013 and Fall 2014, Completions component. (This table was prepared September 2015.)