Table 331.

Bachelor's degrees conferred to females by degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2009-10 and 2010-11

Field of study	2009-10							2010-11
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	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
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
All fields, total	943,381	653,782	108,673	85,224	64,045	7,524	24,133	981,780	662,522	113,898	93,321	65,776	63,204	2,572	7,135	12,681	26,447
Agriculture and natural resources	12,817	10,687	455	669	693	110	203	13,948	11,573	417	811	647	627	20	121	150	229
Architecture and related services	4,357	2,936	205	491	467	29	229	4,136	2,638	198	502	481	473	8	24	57	236
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	5,927	3,253	818	873	733	120	130	6,299	3,125	998	1,034	681	653	28	120	198	143
Biological and biomedical sciences	50,535	31,540	4,692	3,806	8,680	332	1,485	53,111	32,779	4,874	4,183	8,577	8,443	134	325	707	1,666
Business	174,992	110,772	26,056	16,320	12,965	1,230	7,649	178,012	108,908	26,233	17,392	13,678	13,213	465	1,188	1,873	8,740
Communication, journalism, and related programs	52,671	38,968	5,486	4,334	2,476	299	1,108	53,759	38,641	5,748	4,642	2,462	2,348	114	330	697	1,239
Communications technologies	1,337	883	185	107	112	7	43	1,350	882	185	139	80	76	4	5	19	40
Computer and information sciences	7,179	3,980	1,474	534	718	72	401	7,594	4,124	1,503	628	794	778	16	41	110	394
Construction trades	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	25	22	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	80,539	67,274	5,174	5,060	1,572	721	738	82,797	67,884	5,423	5,488	1,841	1,445	396	669	631	861
Engineering	13,294	8,283	846	1,077	2,069	84	935	14,257	8,738	844	1,158	2,130	2,103	27	84	238	1,065
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	1,582	997	292	126	88	16	63	1,718	1,060	271	153	111	110	1	26	22	75
English language and literature/letters	36,181	27,961	2,980	2,794	1,835	255	356	35,828	26,969	2,911	3,037	1,744	1,662	82	229	540	398
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	19,132	14,169	2,094	1,468	969	203	229	19,682	14,236	2,222	1,606	990	957	33	163	214	251
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	14,906	10,394	655	2,553	929	87	288	14,986	10,049	662	2,662	936	923	13	80	281	316
Health professions and related programs	110,328	80,688	12,939	7,226	7,019	834	1,622	121,894	87,586	14,758	8,232	7,675	7,344	331	803	1,210	1,630
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	21,402	11,250	5,635	3,560	575	215	167	23,241	11,820	6,197	4,006	541	485	56	225	313	139
Legal professions and studies	2,790	1,754	553	282	151	28	22	3,112	1,887	613	402	137	132	5	17	36	20
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	30,334	19,829	4,665	3,284	1,179	359	1,018	30,239	19,634	4,522	3,582	1,133	1,058	75	357	409	602
Library science	74	69	1	3	1	0	0	83	73	2	3	3	3	0	0	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	6,943	5,022	437	418	673	38	355	7,399	5,077	422	504	745	728	17	36	97	518
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	8	5	1	0	0	0	2	17	11	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	1
Military technologies and applied sciences	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	14	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	25,519	17,097	2,597	3,564	1,603	244	414	28,626	18,798	3,048	3,955	1,739	1,687	52	238	361	487
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	15,697	12,346	1,344	1,054	595	141	217	16,988	12,973	1,519	1,278	620	563	57	120	210	268
Philosophy and religious studies	4,594	3,464	393	328	316	28	65	4,687	3,435	464	323	290	279	11	33	76	66
Physical sciences and science technologies	9,517	6,550	724	591	1,171	66	415	9,930	6,712	739	615	1,211	1,190	21	62	145	446
Precision production	10	4	0	1	3	0	2	21	10	0	3	4	4	0	0	0	4
Psychology	74,941	50,148	9,762	8,254	4,852	600	1,325	77,664	50,559	10,059	9,129	4,881	4,717	164	544	1,217	1,275
Public administration and social services	20,836	12,191	4,882	2,557	680	261	265	21,866	12,358	5,194	2,733	725	650	75	249	395	212
Social sciences and history	85,374	55,653	9,934	9,453	7,152	738	2,444	87,330	54,730	10,379	10,164	7,070	6,848	222	647	1,413	2,927
Social sciences	71,055	44,221	9,095	8,245	6,530	625	2,339	73,154	43,677	9,528	8,918	6,508	6,308	200	551	1,177	2,795
History	14,319	11,432	839	1,208	622	113	105	14,176	11,053	851	1,246	562	540	22	96	236	132
Theology and religious vocations	2,962	2,420	245	137	88	20	52	2,956	2,337	260	162	84	73	11	11	29	73
Transportation and materials moving	555	423	39	42	33	6	12	596	419	46	45	33	32	1	8	11	34
Visual and performing arts	56,034	42,760	3,110	4,256	3,648	381	1,879	57,615	42,467	3,180	4,744	3,732	3,599	133	380	1,020	2,092
Other and not classified	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: Degree-granting institutions 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 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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, Completions component. (This table was prepared June 2012.)