Table 321.30.

Associate's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2010-11 and 2011-12

Field of study	2010-11										2011-12
	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	942,327	604,110	128,703	125,616	45,876	41,474	4,402	10,173	11,275	16,574	1,017,538	632,802	141,886	151,621	48,707	44,829	3,878	10,711	14,759	17,052
Agriculture and natural resources	6,425	5,942	56	209	54	42	12	93	39	32	7,066	6,473	81	259	58	44	14	114	57	24
Architecture and related services	569	310	24	161	53	51	2	4	2	15	593	291	33	188	52	49	3	1	7	21
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	209	45	24	38	4	3	1	90	3	5	194	37	18	45	13	10	3	72	4	5
Biological and biomedical sciences	3,245	1,656	281	653	480	436	44	50	36	89	3,834	1,841	325	939	509	499	10	70	57	93
Business	139,986	84,192	23,901	16,601	7,701	6,979	722	1,660	1,789	4,142	142,338	83,468	24,090	18,924	7,923	7,342	581	1,614	2,149	4,170
Communication, journalism, and related programs	3,051	1,955	286	506	153	131	22	20	30	101	3,495	2,104	379	655	156	133	23	27	61	113
Communications technologies	4,209	2,956	535	414	134	126	8	39	67	64	5,000	3,376	585	600	206	194	12	41	124	68
Computer and information sciences	37,677	25,050	5,911	3,730	1,747	1,613	134	349	335	555	41,161	26,919	6,303	4,532	2,028	1,863	165	392	494	493
Construction trades	5,402	4,282	518	385	83	76	7	78	44	12	5,752	4,461	632	387	92	75	17	91	75	14
Education	20,459	13,278	2,948	2,952	416	329	87	477	195	193	20,531	12,957	3,056	3,230	373	332	41	482	213	220
Engineering	2,825	1,794	187	367	229	207	22	43	25	180	3,382	2,121	241	423	305	283	22	27	27	238
Engineering technologies and engineering-related    fields1	35,521	25,100	4,296	3,958	1,187	1,087	100	393	310	277	36,510	25,631	4,449	4,276	1,179	1,091	88	381	347	247
English language and literature/letters	2,019	1,080	244	476	161	150	11	15	17	26	2,137	1,141	232	512	150	139	11	22	38	42
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,532	4,430	1,893	1,602	336	305	31	76	65	130	9,503	4,839	2,093	1,843	422	391	31	99	90	117
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,876	1,193	84	421	62	48	14	16	29	71	1,980	1,215	104	519	56	51	5	6	24	56
Health professions and related programs	201,831	139,071	28,024	19,513	9,524	8,655	869	1,804	2,208	1,687	218,041	146,666	31,225	23,793	9,966	9,256	710	1,995	2,769	1,627
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	44,923	27,248	7,667	7,691	1,039	827	212	466	670	142	50,695	28,818	8,814	10,538	1,189	970	219	499	650	187
Legal professions and studies	11,620	7,440	1,967	1,534	322	269	53	112	176	69	12,182	7,594	2,063	1,846	300	276	24	132	181	66
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	306,670	192,864	37,996	47,746	14,728	13,287	1,441	3,023	3,996	6,317	336,554	204,241	44,336	57,252	15,483	14,207	1,276	3,215	5,428	6,599
Library science	160	128	5	20	3	3	0	1	3	0	159	128	1	18	7	6	1	3	1	1
Mathematics and statistics	1,644	778	103	385	256	254	2	24	23	75	1,529	703	64	420	212	207	5	23	21	86
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	19,969	14,078	2,077	2,493	685	601	84	304	222	110	20,714	14,302	2,031	2,861	704	613	91	325	350	141
Military technologies and applied sciences	856	582	96	110	47	40	7	8	13	0	986	653	150	101	55	45	10	7	20	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	23,729	13,787	2,111	4,038	2,775	2,625	150	208	242	568	27,267	15,174	2,386	5,240	3,234	3,079	155	201	442	590
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	2,366	1,457	350	372	88	64	24	38	21	40	3,123	1,889	404	533	106	92	14	53	58	80
Philosophy and religious studies	283	152	47	53	25	24	1	4	1	1	308	166	75	50	3	3	0	3	5	6
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,078	2,866	618	644	524	493	31	65	66	295	5,824	3,107	669	908	644	620	24	63	100	333
Precision production	3,254	2,741	153	216	79	68	11	39	20	6	3,320	2,784	151	220	74	69	5	50	32	9
Psychology	3,866	2,125	334	1,003	204	185	19	87	57	56	4,717	2,317	446	1,453	280	259	21	94	90	37
Public administration and social services	7,472	3,889	2,181	1,040	132	100	32	131	67	32	9,143	4,697	2,709	1,319	133	108	25	134	97	54
Social sciences and history	12,767	6,316	1,464	3,056	1,261	1,110	151	241	207	222	14,132	6,695	1,390	3,902	1,353	1,202	151	234	329	229
Social sciences	12,067	5,856	1,433	2,888	1,244	1,096	148	236	195	215	13,321	6,166	1,359	3,703	1,328	1,182	146	226	317	222
History	700	460	31	168	17	14	3	5	12	7	811	529	31	199	25	20	5	8	12	7
Theology and religious vocations	758	520	167	36	13	10	3	7	1	14	839	558	189	67	8	5	3	2	7	8
Transportation and materials moving	1,697	1,137	126	253	94	90	4	14	29	44	2,098	1,446	134	294	111	97	14	22	20	71
Visual and performing arts	21,379	13,668	2,029	2,940	1,277	1,186	91	194	267	1,004	22,431	13,990	2,028	3,474	1,323	1,219	104	217	392	1,007
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.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2011 and Fall 2012, Completions component. (This table was prepared July 2013.)