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| Table 264. | Bachelor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2001-02 |
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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 ............................| 1,291,900| 958,597| 116,620| 82,969| 83,093| 9,165| 41,456| 549,816| 414,891| 39,195| 32,953| 37,660| 3,624| 21,493| 742,084| 543,706| 77,425| 50,016| 45,433| 5,541| 19,963
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Agriculture and natural resources ...............| 23,331| 20,645| 650| 739| 760| 191| 346| 12,630| 11,356| 280| 375| 334| 107| 178| 10,701| 9,289| 370| 364| 426| 84| 168
Architecture and related services ...............| 8,808| 6,518| 348| 640| 729| 58| 515| 5,224| 3,932| 203| 395| 360| 39| 295| 3,584| 2,586| 145| 245| 369| 19| 220
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies ......| 6,390| 3,690| 880| 769| 753| 131| 167| 1,998| 1,151| 290| 238| 223| 45| 51| 4,392| 2,539| 590| 531| 530| 86| 116
Biological and biomedical sciences ..............| 59,415| 42,294| 4,779| 3,238| 7,255| 424| 1,425| 23,346| 17,089| 1,329| 1,308| 2,919| 169| 532| 36,069| 25,205| 3,450| 1,930| 4,336| 255| 893
Business ........................................| 278,217| 197,970| 27,718| 17,327| 19,700| 1,797| 13,705| 138,343| 103,692| 9,856| 7,971| 8,698| 850| 7,276| 139,874| 94,278| 17,862| 9,356| 11,002| 947| 6,429
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Communications, journalism, and related programs | 62,791| 49,483| 5,540| 3,510| 2,368| 344| 1,546| 22,914| 18,474| 1,873| 1,127| 765| 122| 553| 39,877| 31,009| 3,667| 2,383| 1,603| 222| 993
Communications technologies .....................| 1,245| 889| 158| 102| 65| 5| 26| 778| 540| 83| 83| 53| 4| 15| 467| 349| 75| 19| 12| 1| 11
Computer and information sciences ...............| 50,365| 30,211| 5,463| 2,670| 7,783| 253| 3,985| 36,462| 23,582| 2,901| 1,859| 5,244| 160| 2,716| 13,903| 6,629| 2,562| 811| 2,539| 93| 1,269
Construction trades .............................| 202| 182| 6| 10| 1| 0| 3| 182| 166| 4| 10| 1| 0| 1| 20| 16| 2| 0| 0| 0| 2
Education .......................................| 106,295| 90,409| 6,956| 4,893| 1,914| 1,018| 1,105| 24,049| 20,103| 1,818| 1,097| 474| 239| 318| 82,246| 70,306| 5,138| 3,796| 1,440| 779| 787
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Engineering .....................................| 59,627| 41,252| 3,148| 3,229| 7,413| 320| 4,265| 47,214| 33,491| 1,991| 2,492| 5,484| 243| 3,513| 12,413| 7,761| 1,157| 737| 1,929| 77| 752
Engineering technologies\1\ .....................| 14,686| 11,026| 1,419| 894| 771| 105| 471| 12,921| 9,903| 1,096| 762| 671| 90| 399| 1,765| 1,123| 323| 132| 100| 15| 72
English language and literature/letters .........| 52,375| 42,538| 4,025| 2,810| 2,180| 304| 518| 16,457| 13,700| 1,022| 893| 612| 86| 144| 35,918| 28,838| 3,003| 1,917| 1,568| 218| 374
Family and consumer sciences ....................| 16,938| 13,678| 1,587| 673| 626| 118| 256| 2,095| 1,640| 232| 96| 71| 12| 44| 14,843| 12,038| 1,355| 577| 555| 106| 212
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics .| 16,258| 11,613| 657| 2,661| 779| 77| 471| 4,685| 3,489| 162| 661| 234| 29| 110| 11,573| 8,124| 495| 2,000| 545| 48| 361
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Health professions and related clinical sciences | 72,887| 55,529| 8,218| 3,754| 4,012| 544| 830| 10,869| 7,912| 1,108| 731| 839| 89| 190| 62,018| 47,617| 7,110| 3,023| 3,173| 455| 640
Legal professions and studies ...................| 2,003| 1,389| 304| 147| 136| 15| 12| 591| 417| 58| 46| 62| 4| 4| 1,412| 972| 246| 101| 74| 11| 8
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
and humanities ...............................| 39,333| 27,786| 4,688| 4,106| 1,572| 442| 739| 12,902| 9,630| 1,399| 989| 460| 138| 286| 26,431| 18,156| 3,289| 3,117| 1,112| 304| 453
Library science..................................| 74| 67| 0| 1| 4| 0| 2| 18| 15| 0| 0| 2| 0| 1| 56| 52| 0| 1| 2| 0| 1
Mathematics and statistics ......................| 11,950| 8,901| 868| 667| 1,023| 57| 434| 6,333| 4,781| 386| 342| 528| 29| 267| 5,617| 4,120| 482| 325| 495| 28| 167
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Mechanics and repair technologies ...............| 164| 104| 18| 21| 13| 0| 8| 157| 100| 17| 20| 13| 0| 7| 7| 4| 1| 1| 0| 0| 1
Military technologies ...........................| 3| 3| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 3| 3| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies .................| 28,943| 20,760| 2,805| 2,849| 1,736| 199| 594| 9,358| 6,896| 836| 638| 675| 66| 247| 19,585| 13,864| 1,969| 2,211| 1,061| 133| 347
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ..| 18,885| 15,419| 1,574| 1,030| 415| 143| 304| 9,281| 7,392| 879| 573| 206| 64| 167| 9,604| 8,027| 695| 457| 209| 79| 137
Philosophy and religious studies ................| 9,473| 7,814| 481| 478| 479| 56| 165| 5,732| 4,727| 273| 326| 280| 31| 95| 3,741| 3,087| 208| 152| 199| 25| 70
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Physical sciences and science technologies ......| 17,799| 13,881| 1,138| 707| 1,355| 114| 604| 10,292| 8,306| 461| 423| 688| 63| 351| 7,507| 5,575| 677| 284| 667| 51| 253
Precision production ............................| 47| 39| 1| 3| 2| 0| 2| 29| 24| 1| 2| 2| 0| 0| 18| 15| 0| 1| 0| 0| 2
Psychology ......................................| 76,775| 55,905| 8,127| 6,382| 4,428| 567| 1,366| 17,284| 12,530| 1,618| 1,524| 1,171| 131| 310| 59,491| 43,375| 6,509| 4,858| 3,257| 436| 1,056
Public administration and social service | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
professions ..................................| 19,392| 12,529| 4,036| 1,847| 595| 178| 207| 3,706| 2,316| 757| 378| 173| 40| 42| 15,686| 10,213| 3,279| 1,469| 422| 138| 165
Security and protective services ................| 25,536| 17,262| 4,484| 2,659| 715| 306| 110| 13,727| 9,980| 1,812| 1,284| 441| 156| 54| 11,809| 7,282| 2,672| 1,375| 274| 150| 56
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Social sciences and history .....................| 132,874| 96,346| 12,530| 9,917| 9,258| 886| 3,937| 64,170| 48,921| 4,493| 4,269| 4,198| 385| 1,904| 68,704| 47,425| 8,037| 5,648| 5,060| 501| 2,033
Social sciences ...............................| 106,873| 74,633| 11,098| 8,366| 8,327| 721| 3,728| 48,911| 35,937| 3,777| 3,383| 3,718| 297| 1,799| 57,962| 38,696| 7,321| 4,983| 4,609| 424| 1,929
History .......................................| 26,001| 21,713| 1,432| 1,551| 931| 165| 209| 15,259| 12,984| 716| 886| 480| 88| 105| 10,742| 8,729| 716| 665| 451| 77| 104
Theology and religious vocations ................| 7,762| 6,677| 410| 258| 161| 28| 228| 5,278| 4,582| 246| 164| 109| 15| 162| 2,484| 2,095| 164| 94| 52| 13| 66
Transportation and materials moving .............| 4,020| 3,339| 220| 181| 101| 29| 150| 3,555| 2,949| 197| 153| 96| 22| 138| 465| 390| 23| 28| 5| 7| 12
Visual and performing arts ......................| 66,773| 52,224| 3,373| 3,787| 3,983| 456| 2,950| 27,130| 21,020| 1,506| 1,718| 1,571| 196| 1,119| 39,643| 31,204| 1,867| 2,069| 2,412| 260| 1,831
Not classified by field of study ................| 264| 225| 11| 10| 8| 0| 10| 103| 82| 8| 6| 3| 0| 4| 161| 143| 3| 4| 5| 0| 6
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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. 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 2002. (This table was prepared December 2004.)
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