Table 321.40.

Associate's degrees conferred to males 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	392,084	226,142	44,777	74,531	23,426	22,003	1,423	3,335	11,251	8,622	394,159	223,661	43,173	78,464	24,453	23,080	1,373	3,372	11,676	9,360
Agriculture and natural resources	4,883	4,305	84	283	28	24	4	62	91	30	5,039	4,469	81	297	31	24	7	62	77	22
Architecture and related services	330	138	18	146	15	14	1	2	4	7	332	134	18	140	15	15	0	0	11	14
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	156	39	20	41	13	6	7	31	12	0	181	50	27	57	19	16	3	17	11	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	1,797	831	136	511	215	212	3	17	50	37	1,749	694	170	538	230	227	3	16	55	46
Business	49,596	25,766	7,233	9,073	3,831	3,665	166	430	1,411	1,852	48,404	24,555	6,664	9,551	3,882	3,723	159	405	1,389	1,958
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,794	1,323	288	808	200	187	13	18	104	53	3,202	1,398	405	969	243	235	8	22	116	49
Communications technologies	3,121	1,668	552	589	101	95	6	36	122	53	2,840	1,534	485	515	116	108	8	19	103	68
Computer and information sciences	24,137	14,947	2,998	3,114	1,669	1,602	67	200	723	486	24,816	15,098	2,918	3,444	1,861	1,766	95	199	714	582
Construction trades	4,446	3,186	453	447	160	142	18	65	124	11	4,956	3,497	468	464	229	194	35	112	168	18
Education	1,985	1,143	289	368	37	34	3	67	56	25	1,882	1,052	267	378	48	44	4	63	49	25
Engineering	4,508	2,601	361	834	389	375	14	24	126	173	4,995	2,726	363	992	476	470	6	41	130	267
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields1	23,546	16,607	2,330	2,792	819	771	48	232	489	277	23,278	16,467	2,197	2,720	844	781	63	196	527	327
English language and literature/letters	853	324	64	336	71	70	1	4	34	20	953	376	64	362	82	81	1	10	44	15
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	373	140	60	124	21	17	4	4	11	13	360	137	63	97	36	34	2	6	9	12
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	499	196	10	220	41	41	0	4	16	12	597	258	23	247	34	33	1	1	20	14
Health professions and related programs	30,605	18,227	3,808	4,784	2,492	2,298	194	255	782	257	29,779	17,192	3,672	5,076	2,510	2,348	162	247	838	244
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	22,362	13,058	2,426	5,402	710	634	76	152	523	91	21,010	12,007	2,100	5,406	728	649	79	170	524	75
Legal professions and studies	1,124	580	234	230	40	39	1	10	20	10	1,034	573	192	181	36	31	5	9	31	12
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	146,130	82,882	17,407	29,062	7,661	7,161	500	1,091	4,378	3,649	147,523	82,733	16,956	30,430	7,814	7,353	461	1,105	4,582	3,903
Library science	29	22	1	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	20	12	1	5	0	0	0	0	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	2,159	809	69	769	319	314	5	10	82	101	2,370	878	74	794	403	395	8	10	86	125
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	19,301	13,030	1,601	3,095	666	568	98	237	481	191	19,401	12,928	1,593	3,277	673	584	89	246	476	208
Military technologies and applied sciences	872	546	134	99	42	38	4	12	39	0	879	570	109	116	44	39	5	9	31	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	12,757	6,502	889	3,056	1,505	1,455	50	69	437	299	12,873	6,281	910	3,319	1,541	1,511	30	68	449	305
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	2,867	1,494	306	683	212	197	15	21	105	46	2,955	1,412	328	811	227	208	19	18	102	57
Philosophy and religious studies	384	226	47	75	12	11	1	1	12	11	574	400	44	82	20	20	0	1	16	11
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,105	2,483	444	1,180	539	520	19	35	169	255	5,457	2,638	440	1,284	537	528	9	42	175	341
Precision production	4,481	3,527	218	472	115	106	9	42	91	16	4,905	3,725	233	620	129	114	15	69	117	12
Psychology	2,591	858	198	1,126	250	239	11	30	107	22	2,673	826	196	1,195	275	263	12	31	118	32
Public administration and social services	1,109	492	353	174	30	29	1	18	32	10	1,052	465	330	184	22	19	3	20	25	6
Social sciences and history	7,389	2,917	536	2,589	768	719	49	66	305	208	7,981	3,022	611	2,930	809	765	44	78	341	190
Social sciences	6,434	2,437	508	2,235	717	669	48	57	277	203	6,880	2,476	582	2,507	756	714	42	75	300	184
History	955	480	28	354	51	50	1	9	28	5	1,101	546	29	423	53	51	2	3	41	6
Theology and religious vocations	512	323	122	33	7	4	3	7	14	6	992	798	116	40	15	14	1	7	10	6
Transportation and materials moving	1,292	827	94	176	59	53	6	10	54	72	1,338	853	103	180	86	73	13	6	43	67
Visual and performing arts	7,991	4,125	994	1,835	388	362	26	73	247	329	7,759	3,903	952	1,763	438	415	23	67	287	349
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.)