2013 Tables and Figures | All Years of Tables and Figures | Most Recent Full Issue of the Digest |
Previous Page | Download Excel (18KB) |
Table 324.25. | Doctor'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 | 163,765 | 105,932 | 10,925 | 8,650 | 17,078 | 16,730 | 348 | 947 | 1,271 | 18,962 | 170,062 | 109,270 | 11,740 | 9,215 | 17,893 | 17,559 | 334 | 913 | 1,569 | 19,462 |
Agriculture and natural resources | 1,246 | 610 | 25 | 48 | 40 | 39 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 510 | 1,333 | 637 | 42 | 47 | 41 | 41 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 553 |
Architecture and related services | 205 | 68 | 8 | 9 | 41 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 75 | 255 | 95 | 12 | 9 | 28 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 105 |
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies | 278 | 141 | 38 | 16 | 27 | 26 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 47 | 302 | 134 | 42 | 29 | 28 | 28 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 57 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 7,693 | 4,214 | 285 | 342 | 688 | 673 | 15 | 28 | 49 | 2,087 | 7,935 | 4,304 | 300 | 352 | 746 | 738 | 8 | 35 | 63 | 2,135 |
Business | 2,286 | 1,089 | 338 | 96 | 148 | 145 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 599 | 2,531 | 1,237 | 397 | 83 | 170 | 167 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 617 |
Communication, journalism, and related programs | 577 | 358 | 36 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 146 | 563 | 352 | 33 | 23 | 29 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 116 |
Communications technologies | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 1,588 | 581 | 41 | 21 | 146 | 144 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 793 | 1,698 | 597 | 46 | 31 | 146 | 146 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 871 |
Construction trades | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Education | 9,623 | 6,172 | 1,743 | 593 | 326 | 310 | 16 | 81 | 63 | 645 | 9,990 | 6,365 | 1,901 | 678 | 361 | 346 | 15 | 72 | 71 | 542 |
Engineering | 8,369 | 2,599 | 155 | 200 | 644 | 640 | 4 | 15 | 36 | 4,720 | 8,722 | 2,775 | 185 | 198 | 623 | 621 | 2 | 11 | 43 | 4,887 |
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1 | 56 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 134 | 74 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 40 |
English language and literature/letters | 1,344 | 1,044 | 59 | 54 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 115 | 1,427 | 1,085 | 64 | 71 | 49 | 47 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 137 |
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences | 320 | 189 | 30 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 81 | 325 | 191 | 41 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 70 |
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics | 1,158 | 625 | 23 | 84 | 48 | 47 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 374 | 1,231 | 657 | 17 | 117 | 60 | 59 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 366 |
Health professions and related programs | 60,153 | 41,177 | 3,480 | 2,875 | 9,933 | 9,799 | 134 | 340 | 430 | 1,918 | 62,090 | 41,820 | 3,771 | 2,942 | 10,591 | 10,452 | 139 | 344 | 550 | 2,072 |
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting | 131 | 89 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 117 | 81 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
Legal professions and studies | 44,877 | 32,762 | 3,207 | 3,290 | 3,686 | 3,532 | 154 | 361 | 480 | 1,091 | 46,836 | 34,329 | 3,398 | 3,561 | 3,679 | 3,545 | 134 | 330 | 560 | 979 |
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities | 95 | 73 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 93 | 68 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
Library science | 50 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 60 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20 |
Mathematics and statistics | 1,586 | 685 | 25 | 31 | 98 | 97 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 740 | 1,669 | 696 | 23 | 43 | 79 | 77 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 818 |
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 | 660 | 372 | 71 | 34 | 38 | 38 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 133 | 727 | 432 | 67 | 38 | 34 | 32 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 145 |
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies | 257 | 163 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 62 | 288 | 187 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 65 |
Philosophy and religious studies | 805 | 550 | 54 | 25 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 143 | 778 | 541 | 36 | 27 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 130 |
Physical sciences and science technologies | 5,295 | 2,579 | 100 | 144 | 272 | 265 | 7 | 13 | 30 | 2,157 | 5,370 | 2,622 | 104 | 155 | 288 | 283 | 5 | 9 | 40 | 2,152 |
Precision production | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 5,851 | 4,303 | 430 | 376 | 300 | 299 | 1 | 34 | 56 | 352 | 5,928 | 4,306 | 441 | 396 | 357 | 354 | 3 | 27 | 70 | 331 |
Public administration and social services | 851 | 458 | 145 | 50 | 45 | 45 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 144 | 884 | 493 | 140 | 50 | 44 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 148 |
Social sciences and history | 4,390 | 2,509 | 194 | 194 | 202 | 197 | 5 | 16 | 37 | 1,238 | 4,597 | 2,611 | 214 | 214 | 210 | 207 | 3 | 12 | 39 | 1,297 |
Social sciences | 3,482 | 1,846 | 148 | 152 | 175 | 170 | 5 | 11 | 25 | 1,125 | 3,628 | 1,918 | 149 | 172 | 179 | 178 | 1 | 10 | 30 | 1,170 |
History | 908 | 663 | 46 | 42 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 113 | 969 | 693 | 65 | 42 | 31 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 127 |
Theology and religious vocations | 2,374 | 1,417 | 362 | 74 | 167 | 165 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 345 | 2,447 | 1,468 | 386 | 65 | 155 | 149 | 6 | 7 | 19 | 347 |
Transportation and materials moving | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Visual and performing arts | 1,646 | 1,047 | 35 | 61 | 108 | 107 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 379 | 1,728 | 1,077 | 40 | 63 | 102 | 99 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 434 |
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. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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.) |