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| Table 269. | Doctor'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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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22
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All fields, total .............................|46,024| 27,698| 2,517|1,561| 2,426| 196| 11,626|24,341| 13,470| 913| 742| 1,243| 76| 7,897|21,683| 14,228| 1,604| 819| 1,183| 120| 3,729
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Agriculture and natural resources ................| 1,229| 610| 31| 19| 35| 3| 531| 790| 396| 17| 9| 15| 3| 350| 439| 214| 14| 10| 20| 0| 181
Architecture and related services ................| 152| 51| 5| 4| 13| 0| 79| 83| 25| 1| 4| 4| 0| 49| 69| 26| 4| 0| 9| 0| 30
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies .......| 186| 108| 20| 9| 19| 2| 28| 67| 43| 5| 2| 6| 0| 11| 119| 65| 15| 7| 13| 2| 17
Biological and biomedical sciences ...............| 5,003| 2,982| 112| 157| 469| 12| 1,271| 2,714| 1590| 42| 83| 254| 5| 740| 2289| 1392| 70| 74| 215| 7| 531
Business .........................................| 1,251| 625| 98| 29| 79| 3| 417| 820| 424| 42| 22| 38| 1| 293| 431| 201| 56| 7| 41| 2| 124
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Communications, journalism, and related programs .| 394| 227| 34| 11| 12| 4| 106| 176| 103| 10| 5| 6| 1| 51| 218| 124| 24| 6| 6| 3| 55
Communications technologies ......................| 4| 3| 0| 0| 0| 0| 1| 3| 2| 0| 0| 0| 0| 1| 1| 1| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0
Computer and information sciences ................| 816| 318| 19| 12| 63| 1| 403| 648| 253| 11| 9| 50| 0| 325| 168| 65| 8| 3| 13| 1| 78
Construction trades ..............................| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0
Education ........................................| 6,835| 4,783| 929| 336| 190| 49| 548| 2,315| 1613| 279| 126| 56| 11| 230| 4520| 3170| 650| 210| 134| 38| 318
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Engineering ......................................| 5,276| 1,694| 99| 112| 317| 13| 3,041| 4,371| 1389| 72| 88| 246| 12| 2564| 905| 305| 27| 24| 71| 1| 477
Engineering technologies\1\ ......................| 57| 20| 2| 0| 4| 0| 31| 44| 14| 0| 0| 4| 0| 26| 13| 6| 2| 0| 0| 0| 5
English language and literature/letters ..........| 1,246| 960| 66| 41| 44| 6| 129| 492| 385| 19| 21| 12| 3| 52| 754| 575| 47| 20| 32| 3| 77
Family and consumer sciences .....................| 372| 259| 30| 13| 10| 0| 60| 106| 79| 6| 6| 3| 0| 12| 266| 180| 24| 7| 7| 0| 48
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics ..| 1,042| 571| 13| 102| 41| 1| 314| 424| 242| 2| 48| 15| 0| 117| 618| 329| 11| 54| 26| 1| 197
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Health professions and related clinical sciences..| 3,328| 2,387| 133| 101| 231| 12| 464| 1,030| 651| 37| 29| 84| 8| 221| 2298| 1736| 96| 72| 147| 4| 243
Legal professions and studies ....................| 105| 20| 0| 0| 3| 0| 82| 68| 11| 0| 0| 3| 0| 54| 37| 9| 0| 0| 0| 0| 28
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
and humanities ................................| 78| 68| 1| 1| 0| 0| 8| 24| 21| 1| 0| 0| 0| 2| 54| 47| 0| 1| 0| 0| 6
Library science...................................| 62| 33| 2| 0| 5| 1| 21| 25| 11| 0| 0| 2| 0| 12| 37| 22| 2| 0| 3| 1| 9
Mathematics and statistics .......................| 1,007| 425| 20| 19| 46| 1| 496| 734| 307| 16| 12| 29| 0| 370| 273| 118| 4| 7| 17| 1| 126
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Mechanics and repair technologies ................| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0
Military technologies ............................| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies ..................| 899| 580| 60| 40| 65| 11| 143| 418| 254| 22| 21| 36| 3| 82| 481| 326| 38| 19| 29| 8| 61
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ...| 199| 144| 7| 2| 8| 1| 37| 102| 66| 2| 0| 7| 1| 26| 97| 78| 5| 2| 1| 0| 11
Philosophy and religious studies .................| 662| 514| 17| 19| 29| 1| 82| 461| 360| 10| 11| 17| 1| 62| 201| 154| 7| 8| 12| 0| 20
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Physical sciences and science technologies .......| 3,858| 2,040| 82| 72| 196| 7| 1,461| 2,792| 1462| 50| 50| 125| 3| 1102| 1066| 578| 32| 22| 71| 4| 359
Precision production ........................... | 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0
Psychology .......................................| 4,831| 3,803| 310| 218| 222| 39| 239| 1,481| 1171| 82| 70| 65| 10| 83| 3350| 2632| 228| 148| 157| 29| 156
Public administration and social service | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
professions ...................................| 596| 355| 74| 19| 36| 3| 109| 262| 151| 18| 4| 19| 0| 70| 334| 204| 56| 15| 17| 3| 39
Security and protective services..................| 72| 51| 6| 0| 3| 0| 12| 43| 30| 5| 0| 2| 0| 6| 29| 21| 1| 0| 1| 0| 6
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Social sciences and history ......................| 3,850| 2,323| 204| 161| 149| 26| 987| 2,196| 1310| 76| 82| 65| 14| 649| 1654| 1013| 128| 79| 84| 12| 338
Social sciences ............................... | 2,989| 1,654| 147| 130| 118| 22| 918| 1,682| 901| 47| 59| 54| 11| 610| 1307| 753| 100| 71| 64| 11| 308
History ........................................| 861| 669| 57| 31| 31| 4| 69| 514| 409| 29| 23| 11| 3| 39| 347| 260| 28| 8| 20| 1| 30
Theology and religious vocations .................| 1,321| 844| 111| 33| 67| 0| 266| 1,039| 649| 73| 25| 59| 0| 233| 282| 195| 38| 8| 8| 0| 33
Transportation and materials moving ..............| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0
Visual and performing arts .......................| 1,293| 900| 32| 31| 70| 0| 260| 613| 458| 15| 15| 21| 0| 104| 680| 442| 17| 16| 49| 0| 156
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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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