Table 268.

Bachelor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and major field of study: 2004–05

Major field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
All fields, total	1,439,264	1,049,141	136,122	101,124	97,209	10,307	45,361	613,000	456,592	45,810	39,490	43,711	4,143	23,254	826,264	592,549	90,312	61,634	53,498	6,164	22,107
Agriculture and natural resources	23,002	20,292	654	806	682	200	368	11,987	10,808	278	356	269	103	173	11,015	9,484	376	450	413	97	195
Architecture and related services	9,237	6,764	426	783	762	39	463	5,222	3,941	251	445	316	24	245	4,015	2,823	175	338	446	15	218
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	7,569	4,218	1,051	989	996	148	167	2,307	1,265	328	288	317	53	56	5,262	2,953	723	701	679	95	111
Biological and biomedical sciences	64,611	44,143	5,146	3,993	8,907	514	1,908	24,617	17,551	1,315	1,448	3,410	195	698	39,994	26,592	3,831	2,545	5,497	319	1,210
Business	311,574	214,361	34,464	21,955	23,429	1,952	15,413	155,940	114,502	12,477	9,665	10,523	899	7,874	155,634	99,859	21,987	12,290	12,906	1,053	7,539
Communications, journalism, and related programs	72,715	56,142	7,048	4,477	3,073	386	1,589	25,324	19,872	2,354	1,487	928	129	554	47,391	36,270	4,694	2,990	2,145	257	1,035
Communications technologies	2,523	1,841	262	177	140	8	95	1,602	1,220	126	111	85	2	58	921	621	136	66	55	6	37
Computer and information sciences	54,111	32,948	6,438	3,402	7,023	311	3,989	42,125	27,340	3,796	2,555	5,205	216	3,013	11,986	5,608	2,642	847	1,818	95	976
Construction trades	117	98	8	5	3	0	3	107	93	6	4	2	0	2	10	5	2	1	1	0	1
Education	105,451	90,645	6,434	4,845	1,747	933	847	22,513	19,167	1,622	930	340	220	234	82,938	71,478	4,812	3,915	1,407	713	613
Engineering	64,906	44,012	3,386	3,703	8,687	355	4,763	52,020	36,360	2,239	2,855	6,504	274	3,788	12,886	7,652	1,147	848	2,183	81	975
Engineering technologies1	14,482	10,657	1,537	891	799	109	489	12,812	9,638	1,211	757	689	96	421	1,670	1,019	326	134	110	13	68
English language and literature/letters	54,379	43,680	4,200	3,311	2,376	296	516	17,154	14,216	1,012	993	676	105	152	37,225	29,464	3,188	2,318	1,700	191	364
Family and consumer sciences	20,074	15,796	2,057	1,012	785	179	245	2,435	1,832	287	126	123	19	48	17,639	13,964	1,770	886	662	160	197
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	18,386	13,169	753	2,964	961	104	435	5,370	3,982	196	772	265	40	115	13,016	9,187	557	2,192	696	64	320
Health professions and related clinical sciences	80,685	61,240	8,989	4,547	4,194	570	1,145	10,858	7,848	1,150	793	773	83	211	69,827	53,392	7,839	3,754	3,421	487	934
Legal professions and studies	3,161	2,042	618	248	215	16	22	918	622	128	79	79	8	2	2,243	1,420	490	169	136	8	20
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	43,751	30,042	5,657	4,715	2,039	479	819	13,732	9,966	1,610	1,089	613	151	303	30,019	20,076	4,047	3,626	1,426	328	516
Library science	76	72	3	1	0	0	0	15	14	1	0	0	0	0	61	58	2	1	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	14,351	10,399	885	816	1,457	80	714	7,937	5,733	433	478	818	51	424	6,414	4,666	452	338	639	29	290
Mechanics and repair technologies	238	164	15	24	18	7	10	225	157	15	21	17	6	9	13	7	0	3	1	1	1
Military technologies	40	35	1	3	1	0	0	33	29	1	3	0	0	0	7	6	0	0	1	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	30,243	21,458	2,674	3,115	2,086	223	687	9,645	7,005	834	683	756	69	298	20,598	14,453	1,840	2,432	1,330	154	389
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	22,888	18,227	2,042	1,424	610	207	378	11,702	9,132	1,171	803	292	97	207	11,186	9,095	871	621	318	110	171
Philosophy and religious studies	11,584	9,522	604	606	600	107	145	7,225	6,008	331	390	332	70	94	4,359	3,514	273	216	268	37	51
Physical sciences and science technologies	18,905	14,547	1,105	873	1,488	139	753	10,934	8,817	436	466	712	77	426	7,971	5,730	669	407	776	62	327
Precision production	64	56	0	4	3	0	1	45	41	0	3	0	0	1	19	15	0	1	3	0	0
Psychology	85,614	61,293	9,703	7,486	5,044	585	1,503	19,000	13,869	1,738	1,679	1,259	139	316	66,614	47,424	7,965	5,807	3,785	446	1,187
Public administration and social service professions	21,769	13,206	4,946	2,409	755	242	211	4,209	2,598	793	510	216	48	44	17,560	10,608	4,153	1,899	539	194	167
Security and protective services	30,723	20,355	5,545	3,435	883	311	194	15,354	11,051	2,013	1,585	477	152	76	15,369	9,304	3,532	1,850	406	159	118
Social sciences and history	156,892	112,777	14,323	12,339	11,967	1,185	4,301	77,702	58,905	5,202	5,286	5,618	530	2,161	79,190	53,872	9,121	7,053	6,349	655	2,140
Social sciences	125,494	86,500	12,733	10,401	10,801	978	4,081	59,225	43,124	4,452	4,204	5,004	399	2,042	66,269	43,376	8,281	6,197	5,797	579	2,039
History	31,398	26,277	1,590	1,938	1,166	207	220	18,477	15,781	750	1,082	614	131	119	12,921	10,496	840	856	552	76	101
Theology and religious vocations	9,284	8,048	538	309	184	38	167	6,253	5,527	303	197	107	19	100	3,031	2,521	235	112	77	19	67
Transportation and materials moving	4,904	4,015	291	266	148	37	147	4,323	3,538	253	231	139	33	129	581	477	38	35	9	4	18
Visual and performing arts	80,955	62,877	4,319	5,191	5,147	547	2,874	31,355	23,945	1,900	2,402	1,851	235	1,022	49,600	38,932	2,419	2,789	3,296	312	1,852

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately. NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. 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, 2004–05 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2005. (This table was prepared July 2006.)