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| Table 263. | Bachelor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2002-03 |
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| Total | Males | Females
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Major field of study | | White, | Black, | His- | Asian/ |American|Nonresi-| | White, |Black, | His- | Asian/ |American|Nonresi-| | White, |Black, | His- | Asian/ |American|Nonresi-
| Total | non- | non- | panic |Pacific |Indian/ | dent | Total | non- | non- | panic |Pacific |Indian/ | dent | Total | non- | non- | panic |Pacific |Indian/ | dent
| |Hispanic| His- | |Islander| Alaska | alien | |Hispanic| His- | |Islander| Alaska | alien | |Hispanic| His- | |Islander| Alaska | alien
| | | panic | | | Native | | | | panic | | | Native | | | | panic | | | Native |
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All fields, total .............................| 1,348,503| 994,234| 124,241| 89,030| 87,943| 9,816| 43,239| 573,079| 430,024| 41,472| 35,080| 40,210| 3,853| 22,440| 775,424| 564,210| 82,769| 53,950| 47,733| 5,963| 20,799
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Agriculture and natural resources ................| 23,294| 20,630| 614| 738| 760| 206| 346| 12,327| 11,102| 281| 356| 316| 94| 178| 10,967| 9,528| 333| 382| 444| 112| 168
Architecture and related services ................| 9,054| 6,663| 365| 682| 780| 55| 509| 5,329| 4,011| 201| 425| 395| 34| 263| 3,725| 2,652| 164| 257| 385| 21| 246
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies .......| 6,629| 3,858| 860| 830| 760| 148| 173| 2,056| 1,191| 254| 248| 267| 46| 50| 4,573| 2,667| 606| 582| 493| 102| 123
Biological and biomedical sciences ...............| 60,072| 42,249| 4,945| 3,613| 7,398| 383| 1,484| 22,899| 16,539| 1,305| 1,380| 2,948| 144| 583| 37,173| 25,710| 3,640| 2,233| 4,450| 239| 901
Business .........................................| 293,545| 206,672| 30,746| 18,916| 21,100| 1,962| 14,149| 145,151| 108,114| 10,804| 8,479| 9,383| 960| 7,411| 148,394| 98,558| 19,942| 10,437| 11,717| 1,002| 6,738
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Communications, journalism, and related programs .| 67,859| 53,307| 6,141| 3,896| 2,567| 363| 1,585| 24,142| 19,230| 2,152| 1,268| 814| 135| 543| 43,717| 34,077| 3,989| 2,628| 1,753| 228| 1,042
Communications technologies ......................| 1,933| 1,520| 191| 101| 73| 4| 44| 1,183| 948| 93| 68| 48| 3| 23| 750| 572| 98| 33| 25| 1| 21
Computer and information sciences ................| 57,439| 33,474| 6,540| 3,363| 8,910| 299| 4,853| 41,950| 26,472| 3,491| 2,335| 6,125| 209| 3,318| 15,489| 7,002| 3,049| 1,028| 2,785| 90| 1,535
Construction trades ..............................| 166| 145| 10| 5| 1| 1| 4| 148| 135| 3| 4| 1| 1| 4| 18| 10| 7| 1| 0| 0| 0
Education ........................................| 105,790| 90,592| 6,923| 4,719| 1,654| 1,028| 874| 22,602| 19,099| 1,748| 939| 350| 218| 248| 83,188| 71,493| 5,175| 3,780| 1,304| 810| 626
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Engineering ......................................| 62,611| 43,527| 3,276| 3,413| 7,771| 333| 4,291| 49,945| 35,569| 2,137| 2,643| 5,837| 254| 3,505| 12,666| 7,958| 1,139| 770| 1,934| 79| 786
Engineering technologies\1\ ......................| 14,356| 10,554| 1,525| 947| 745| 132| 453| 12,622| 9,493| 1,160| 828| 650| 104| 387| 1,734| 1,061| 365| 119| 95| 28| 66
English language and literature/letters ..........| 53,670| 43,407| 4,098| 3,087| 2,247| 351| 480| 16,725| 13,925| 979| 920| 650| 116| 135| 36,945| 29,482| 3,119| 2,167| 1,597| 235| 345
Family and consumer sciences .....................| 18,166| 14,516| 1,716| 813| 776| 130| 215| 2,212| 1,714| 248| 100| 99| 11| 40| 15,954| 12,802| 1,468| 713| 677| 119| 175
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics ..| 16,901| 11,955| 700| 2,793| 882| 108| 463| 4,996| 3,675| 174| 730| 257| 31| 129| 11,905| 8,280| 526| 2,063| 625| 77| 334
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Health professions and related clinical sciences..| 71,223| 54,136| 7,994| 3,884| 3,730| 533| 946| 10,091| 7,296| 1,035| 703| 774| 80| 203| 61,132| 46,840| 6,959| 3,181| 2,956| 453| 743
Legal professions and studies ....................| 2,466| 1,647| 386| 214| 172| 28| 19| 715| 464| 94| 81| 64| 6| 6| 1,751| 1,183| 292| 133| 108| 22| 13
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
and humanities ................................| 40,221| 28,199| 5,029| 4,297| 1,596| 447| 653| 12,560| 9,380| 1,391| 955| 449| 126| 259| 27,661| 18,819| 3,638| 3,342| 1,147| 321| 394
Library science ..................................| 99| 79| 7| 2| 9| 0| 2| 26| 16| 0| 2| 8| 0| 0| 73| 63| 7| 0| 1| 0| 2
Mathematics and statistics .......................| 12,493| 9,182| 815| 663| 1,172| 68| 593| 6,776| 4,987| 388| 370| 621| 31| 379| 5,717| 4,195| 427| 293| 551| 37| 214
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Mechanics and repair technologies ................| 134| 115| 2| 3| 2| 2| 10| 122| 106| 2| 2| 0| 2| 10| 12| 9| 0| 1| 2| 0| 0
Military technologies ............................| 6| 5| 0| 1| 0| 0| 0| 6| 5| 0| 1| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies ..................| 28,757| 20,117| 2,801| 2,908| 2,043| 232| 656| 9,371| 6,696| 825| 717| 785| 75| 273| 19,386| 13,421| 1,976| 2,191| 1,258| 157| 383
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ...| 21,428| 17,037| 1,847| 1,403| 623| 156| 362| 10,736| 8,313| 1,006| 819| 330| 73| 195| 10,692| 8,724| 841| 584| 293| 83| 167
Philosophy and religious studies .................| 10,344| 8,551| 536| 513| 528| 57| 159| 6,353| 5,308| 298| 314| 306| 33| 94| 3,991| 3,243| 238| 199| 222| 24| 65
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Physical sciences and science technologies .......| 17,940| 14,175| 1,043| 737| 1,264| 133| 588| 10,556| 8,596| 438| 449| 668| 71| 334| 7,384| 5,579| 605| 288| 596| 62| 254
Precision production .............................| 42| 33| 0| 1| 2| 0| 6| 30| 25| 0| 0| 2| 0| 3| 12| 8| 0| 1| 0| 0| 3
Psychology .......................................| 78,613| 57,486| 8,424| 6,488| 4,251| 571| 1,393| 17,504| 12,892| 1,653| 1,425| 1,127| 126| 281| 61,109| 44,594| 6,771| 5,063| 3,124| 445| 1,112
Public administration and social service | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
professions ...................................| 19,878| 12,537| 4,321| 1,976| 632| 205| 207| 3,724| 2,389| 718| 377| 151| 33| 56| 16,154| 10,148| 3,603| 1,599| 481| 172| 151
Security and protective services .................| 26,189| 17,579| 4,794| 2,733| 676| 252| 155| 13,402| 9,716| 1,814| 1,314| 370| 108| 80| 12,787| 7,863| 2,980| 1,419| 306| 144| 75
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Social sciences and history ......................| 143,218| 103,783| 13,240| 10,728| 10,202| 1,091| 4,174| 69,498| 53,093| 4,746| 4,596| 4,562| 463| 2,038| 73,720| 50,690| 8,494| 6,132| 5,640| 628| 2,136
Social sciences ................................| 115,488| 80,594| 11,675| 9,080| 9,256| 914| 3,969| 53,263| 39,216| 4,020| 3,648| 4,092| 362| 1,925| 62,225| 41,378| 7,655| 5,432| 5,164| 552| 2,044
History ........................................| 27,730| 23,189| 1,565| 1,648| 946| 177| 205| 16,235| 13,877| 726| 948| 470| 101| 113| 11,495| 9,312| 839| 700| 476| 76| 92
Theology and religious vocations .................| 7,926| 6,792| 468| 250| 197| 39| 180| 5,322| 4,604| 270| 170| 128| 22| 128| 2,604| 2,188| 198| 80| 69| 17| 52
Transportation and materials moving ..............| 4,567| 3,722| 238| 252| 165| 40| 150| 4,084| 3,337| 206| 232| 143| 35| 131| 483| 385| 32| 20| 22| 5| 19
Visual and performing arts .......................| 71,474| 55,990| 3,646| 4,061| 4,255| 459| 3,063| 27,916| 21,584| 1,558| 1,830| 1,582| 209| 1,153| 43,558| 34,406| 2,088| 2,231| 2,673| 250| 1,910
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\1\Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repairers," which are listed separately. NOTE: 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 2003. (This table was prepared December 2004.)
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