National Center for Education Statistics

Number of awards conferred by Title IV institutions, by race/ethnicity, level of award, and gender: United States, 2016–17
Level of award and gender	All students	American Indian or Alaska Native	Asian	Black or African American	Hispanic or Latino	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	White	Two or more races	Race/ ethnicity unknown	Nonresident¹
Total awards	4,956,075	32,794	289,294	569,764	716,842	12,411	2,690,299	137,738	211,138	295,795
Men	2,068,642	13,024	126,895	197,863	277,367	5,228	1,141,093	55,099	89,917	162,156
Women	2,887,433	19,770	162,399	371,901	439,475	7,183	1,549,206	82,639	121,221	133,639
Less-than-1-year	493,572	5,070	21,296	79,337	92,103	1,437	257,069	11,965	19,595	5,700
Men	230,631	2,441	8,347	33,327	40,408	670	128,083	5,261	9,296	2,798
Women	262,941	2,629	12,949	46,010	51,695	767	128,986	6,704	10,299	2,902
At-least-1- but less- than-2-years	421,596	5,192	17,562	70,126	97,371	1,491	199,969	10,732	14,869	4,284
Men	156,392	2,220	6,899	22,070	34,185	550	78,553	3,924	6,120	1,871
Women	265,204	2,972	10,663	48,056	63,186	941	121,416	6,808	8,749	2,413
Associate’s degrees	1,005,744	8,931	50,735	125,124	201,762	3,070	530,776	28,532	35,905	20,909
Men	394,150	3,236	22,189	41,435	75,426	1,323	214,666	11,218	15,294	9,363
Women	611,594	5,695	28,546	83,689	126,336	1,747	316,110	17,314	20,611	11,546
At-least-2- but less- than-4-years	30,855	239	1,248	3,629	5,627	166	17,252	1,070	1,334	290
Men	18,407	114	744	2,264	3,874	94	9,652	706	822	137
Women	12,448	125	504	1,365	1,753	72	7,600	364	512	153
Bachelor’s degrees	1,956,114	9,198	133,939	188,266	242,099	4,365	1,147,938	63,892	75,035	91,382
Men	836,021	3,574	60,839	67,544	95,196	1,886	499,799	25,971	32,687	48,525
Women	1,120,093	5,624	73,100	120,722	146,903	2,479	648,139	37,921	42,348	42,857
Postbaccalaureate certificates	42,107	220	2,183	4,748	2,956	78	23,388	949	3,322	4,263
Men	15,643	68	868	1,467	1,028	33	8,273	323	1,301	2,282
Women	26,464	152	1,315	3,281	1,928	45	15,115	626	2,021	1,981
Master’s degrees	804,542	3,143	42,743	82,873	62,087	1,470	401,515	16,374	48,917	145,420
Men	326,857	1,058	18,532	24,820	21,890	545	151,861	5,952	19,100	83,099
Women	477,685	2,085	24,211	58,053	40,197	925	249,654	10,422	29,817	62,321
Post-master’s certificates	20,188	100	860	2,578	1,174	25	12,116	330	1,550	1,455
Men	5,892	25	267	496	308	10	3,617	82	445	642
Women	14,296	75	593	2,082	866	15	8,499	248	1,105	813
Doctor’s degrees— research/scholarship	70,805	251	3,791	5,711	3,604	82	33,271	1,161	4,054	18,880
Men	35,191	98	1,767	1,807	1,528	24	15,619	486	1,860	12,002
Women	35,614	153	2,024	3,904	2,076	58	17,652	675	2,194	6,878
Doctor’s degrees— professional practice	108,520	443	14,816	7,101	7,915	223	65,872	2,654	6,398	3,098
Men	48,630	188	6,397	2,524	3,464	92	30,533	1,145	2,902	1,385
Women	59,890	255	8,419	4,577	4,451	131	35,339	1,509	3,496	1,713
Doctor’s degrees—other	2,032	7	121	271	144	4	1,133	79	159	114
Men	828	2	46	109	60	1	437	31	90	52
Women	1,204	5	75	162	84	3	696	48	69	62

¹The use of "Nonresident" is for reporting purposes only and does not reflect a change in the collection of data for this category.

NOTE: Title IV institutions are those with a written agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that allows the institution to participate in any of the Title IV federal student financial assistance programs. United States includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The four U.S. service academies that are not Title IV eligible are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe because they are federally funded and open to the public and are included in this table. Awards displayed in this table were conferred during the 12-month period July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017. Because of changes to institutional characteristics between the reference year (2016–17) and collection year (2017–18), institutions may report awards that are no longer consistent with their current levels of offering (e.g., two-year institutions in the collection year may report awarding bachelor’s degrees in the reference year or less-than-2-year institutions in the collection year may report awarding associate’s degrees in the reference year). Awards to individuals who self-identify with more than one race are included in the Two or more races category. Awards to individuals who are in the United States on a visa or temporary basis, and who are not authorized to remain indefinitely, are included in the nonresident category regardless of race or ethnicity. Awards to individuals of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity are included in the Hispanic or Latino category regardless of race and are not included in the race categories. Definitions for terms used in this table may be found in the IPEDS online glossary located at https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/public/glossary. The glossary is primarily focused on terms used in the current IPEDS collection and may not reflect the definitions in effect when the data in this table were collected.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS, Fall 2017, Completions component (final data).

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