Table 321.30.

Associate's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2015-16 and 2016-17

Field of study	2015-16										2016-17
	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	1,008,228	566,622	134,012	196,044	53,753	50,498	3,255	9,490	28,933	19,374	1,005,649	551,033	129,874	209,138	55,801	52,622	3,179	9,268	29,630	20,905
Agriculture and natural resources	7,858	6,885	124	473	47	43	4	113	170	46	8,207	7,188	127	524	65	56	9	107	153	43
Architecture and related services	478	187	26	212	30	29	1	2	6	15	503	195	26	211	31	31	0	1	17	22
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	419	101	42	106	29	10	19	83	45	13	420	115	47	118	30	19	11	66	37	7
Biological and biomedical sciences	5,266	2,270	451	1,601	618	605	13	57	155	114	5,550	2,213	473	1,783	682	670	12	66	194	139
Business	128,259	66,827	20,774	22,368	8,946	8,521	425	1,365	3,648	4,331	122,234	61,941	18,947	23,188	8,963	8,536	427	1,205	3,430	4,560
Communication, journalism, and related programs	6,759	2,914	702	2,142	469	447	22	29	292	211	7,377	3,035	856	2,433	541	519	22	39	276	197
Communications technologies	4,569	2,492	737	838	181	170	11	44	193	84	4,305	2,384	663	778	169	161	8	31	154	126
Computer and information sciences	30,571	18,483	4,162	3,862	2,169	2,080	89	294	928	673	31,162	18,457	4,037	4,278	2,389	2,280	109	270	947	784
Construction trades	4,699	3,319	500	479	185	165	20	70	135	11	5,308	3,660	519	507	275	230	45	125	198	24
Education	17,032	9,646	2,550	3,524	322	293	29	449	372	169	16,593	9,254	2,442	3,574	400	359	41	365	397	161
Engineering	5,278	2,962	423	993	483	465	18	29	151	237	5,915	3,162	407	1,204	589	582	7	48	152	353
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields1	27,243	18,862	2,841	3,275	990	930	60	282	622	371	27,024	18,694	2,688	3,294	1,001	920	81	257	645	445
English language and literature/letters	2,551	1,087	160	941	184	174	10	17	113	49	2,870	1,154	200	1,110	219	214	5	12	124	51
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,930	4,053	1,647	2,431	428	411	17	94	159	118	8,881	3,776	1,500	2,791	411	392	19	93	187	123
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,208	988	96	874	98	95	3	19	90	43	2,363	1,026	106	991	92	88	4	10	84	54
Health professions and related programs	191,442	122,134	27,441	25,484	9,088	8,437	651	1,736	4,449	1,110	186,299	115,545	27,390	26,827	9,130	8,536	594	1,759	4,487	1,161
Homeland security, law enforcement, and     firefighting	39,930	20,334	6,375	10,623	1,036	907	129	338	1,031	193	37,361	18,629	5,477	10,836	1,059	923	136	314	881	165
Legal professions and studies	8,017	4,747	1,321	1,464	176	167	9	64	192	53	6,900	4,022	1,071	1,348	160	141	19	64	175	60
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	381,202	210,214	50,191	79,870	18,015	16,833	1,182	3,117	11,515	8,280	386,658	208,656	49,495	85,556	18,676	17,549	1,127	3,147	12,303	8,825
Library science	146	107	4	25	6	6	0	0	3	1	158	109	10	25	7	7	0	2	5	0
Mathematics and statistics	3,027	1,108	104	1,038	496	489	7	14	112	155	3,454	1,221	108	1,149	629	615	14	15	121	211
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	20,543	13,749	1,816	3,261	714	606	108	260	536	207	20,827	13,823	1,828	3,469	700	608	92	268	522	217
Military technologies and applied sciences	1,047	648	158	134	45	40	5	14	48	0	1,093	702	144	141	50	43	7	11	45	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	30,482	14,624	2,438	8,058	3,471	3,350	121	182	1,119	590	30,780	13,961	2,416	8,875	3,643	3,567	76	153	1,096	636
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	4,771	2,376	453	1,271	377	357	20	38	187	69	5,037	2,242	489	1,606	394	366	28	38	188	80
Philosophy and religious studies	814	554	90	106	17	15	2	2	22	23	1,002	719	78	123	31	29	2	4	23	24
Physical sciences and science technologies	8,484	3,948	852	1,930	984	946	38	73	293	404	9,223	4,223	943	2,138	1,036	1,011	25	73	312	498
Precision production	4,794	3,757	231	513	122	112	10	54	100	17	5,272	3,988	257	664	140	125	15	82	129	12
Psychology	10,603	3,691	855	4,665	778	736	42	130	382	102	11,286	3,759	864	5,085	891	844	47	117	446	124
Public administration and social services	7,988	3,690	2,373	1,325	151	143	8	142	244	63	7,591	3,420	2,206	1,475	121	99	22	140	191	38
Social sciences and history	20,056	7,306	1,668	7,694	1,901	1,794	107	190	862	435	21,392	7,467	1,715	8,635	1,973	1,870	103	209	913	480
Social sciences	18,451	6,513	1,615	7,098	1,822	1,718	104	169	806	428	19,636	6,586	1,661	7,983	1,894	1,795	99	199	841	472
History	1,605	793	53	596	79	76	3	21	56	7	1,756	881	54	652	79	75	4	10	72	8
Theology and religious vocations	1,089	680	265	84	12	8	4	11	24	13	1,619	1,144	288	98	29	27	2	16	29	15
Transportation and materials moving	1,497	928	105	225	75	69	6	11	63	90	1,547	948	116	230	107	91	16	10	51	85
Visual and performing arts	20,176	10,951	2,037	4,155	1,110	1,045	65	167	672	1,084	19,438	10,201	1,941	4,074	1,168	1,114	54	151	718	1,185
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 2016 and Fall 2017, Completions component. (This table was prepared August 2018.)