Table 282.

Doctor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and major field of study: 2004-05

Major field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
All fields, total	52,631	30,261	3,056	1,824	2,911	237	14,342	26,973	14,023	1,049	764	1,403	87	9,647	25,658	16,238	2,007	1,060	1,508	150	4,695
Agriculture and natural resources	1,173	597	23	20	28	4	501	763	384	9	12	13	2	343	410	213	14	8	15	2	158
Architecture and related services	179	68	5	6	21	0	79	110	36	4	4	10	0	56	69	32	1	2	11	0	23
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	189	100	24	14	15	4	32	81	49	8	2	5	1	16	108	51	16	12	10	3	16
Biological and biomedical sciences	5,578	3,186	155	194	514	18	1,511	2,845	1,643	49	99	247	8	799	2,733	1,543	106	95	267	10	712
Business	1,498	709	123	49	79	6	532	901	433	48	28	41	5	346	597	276	75	21	38	1	186
Communications, journalism, and related programs	465	270	25	13	17	2	138	194	107	9	6	5	0	67	271	163	16	7	12	2	71
Communications technologies	3	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
Computer and information sciences	1,119	356	22	18	102	0	621	905	287	13	12	83	0	510	214	69	9	6	19	0	111
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	7,681	5,159	1,206	388	210	67	651	2,557	1,741	339	118	59	21	279	5,124	3,418	867	270	151	46	372
Engineering	6,547	1,822	111	104	399	6	4,105	5,329	1,474	79	75	303	6	3,392	1,218	348	32	29	96	0	713
Engineering technologies1	54	23	0	0	4	0	27	39	13	0	0	2	0	24	15	10	0	0	2	0	3
English language and literature/letters	1,212	899	80	39	60	15	119	494	389	23	13	13	5	51	718	510	57	26	47	10	68
Family and consumer sciences	331	208	37	8	5	1	72	68	45	5	0	0	0	18	263	163	32	8	5	1	54
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,027	515	11	105	53	3	340	410	222	3	39	12	1	133	617	293	8	66	41	2	207
Health professions and related clinical sciences	5,868	4,348	257	160	453	26	624	1,710	1,154	71	47	161	10	267	4,158	3,194	186	113	292	16	357
Legal professions and studies	98	18	1	0	5	0	74	58	7	0	0	2	0	49	40	11	1	0	3	0	25
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	109	83	2	6	2	1	15	38	28	1	0	0	0	9	71	55	1	6	2	1	6
Library science	42	26	0	0	1	0	15	14	8	0	0	0	0	6	28	18	0	0	1	0	9
Mathematics and statistics	1,176	438	20	23	58	0	637	841	330	10	17	31	0	453	335	108	10	6	27	0	184
Mechanics and repair technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	983	610	64	32	61	5	211	440	280	23	10	27	1	99	543	330	41	22	34	4	112
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	207	139	8	9	9	0	42	119	73	2	6	7	0	31	88	66	6	3	2	0	11
Philosophy and religious studies	586	426	25	12	23	0	100	418	303	17	8	17	0	73	168	123	8	4	6	0	27
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,114	1,962	60	88	232	10	1,762	2,966	1,385	41	51	155	6	1,328	1,148	577	19	37	77	4	434
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	5,106	3,911	323	302	250	36	284	1,466	1,134	67	98	66	10	91	3,640	2,777	256	204	184	26	193
Public administration and social service professions	673	410	92	28	21	7	115	272	152	27	12	13	1	67	401	258	65	16	8	6	48
Security and protective services	94	71	6	5	5	1	6	55	38	5	3	4	1	4	39	33	1	2	1	0	2
Social sciences and history	3,819	2,161	195	141	148	20	1,154	2,184	1,176	82	71	56	7	792	1,635	985	113	70	92	13	362
Social sciences	3,000	1,534	145	113	129	13	1,066	1,699	798	59	59	46	3	734	1,301	736	86	54	83	10	332
History	819	627	50	28	19	7	88	485	378	23	12	10	4	58	334	249	27	16	9	3	30
Theology and religious vocations	1,422	895	153	21	75	1	277	1,101	699	95	16	53	1	237	321	196	58	5	22	0	40
Transportation and materials moving	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Visual and performing arts	1,278	850	28	38	61	4	297	594	432	19	17	18	1	107	684	418	9	21	43	3	190

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately. NOTE: 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, 2004–05 Integrated Postsecondary Edu­cation Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2005. (This table was prepared July 2006.)