Table 271.

Master'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	574,618	379,350	54,482	31,485	32,783	3,295	73,223	233,590	147,546	15,733	11,385	15,031	1,160	42,735	341,028	231,804	38,749	20,100	17,752	2,135	30,488
Agriculture and natural resources	4,746	3,535	112	140	130	32	797	2,288	1,714	34	63	45	14	418	2,458	1,821	78	77	85	18	379
Architecture and related services	5,674	3,673	268	278	350	25	1,080	3,180	2,152	115	156	158	19	580	2,494	1,521	153	122	192	6	500
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	1,755	1,029	168	154	126	32	246	669	417	57	68	33	14	80	1,086	612	111	86	93	18	166
Biological and biomedical sciences	8,199	5,296	426	343	879	31	1,224	3,318	2,186	109	129	389	12	493	4,881	3,110	317	214	490	19	731
Business	142,617	85,714	16,025	7,013	11,294	770	21,801	82,151	52,074	6,042	4,005	6,336	397	13,297	60,466	33,640	9,983	3,008	4,958	373	8,504
Communications, journalism, and related programs	6,762	4,318	678	331	356	37	1,042	2,262	1,518	182	93	111	14	344	4,500	2,800	496	238	245	23	698
Communications technologies	433	222	48	21	27	2	113	273	163	26	3	12	1	68	160	59	22	18	15	1	45
Computer and information sciences	18,416	6,738	1,024	492	2,593	55	7,514	13,136	5,234	608	370	1,624	33	5,267	5,280	1,504	416	122	969	22	2,247
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	167,490	129,176	16,977	11,194	4,195	993	4,955	38,863	30,359	3,614	2,479	889	214	1,308	128,627	98,817	13,363	8,715	3,306	779	3,647
Engineering	32,633	12,718	885	1,048	3,257	79	14,646	25,351	10,236	602	771	2,298	54	11,390	7,282	2,482	283	277	959	25	3,256
Engineering technologies1	2,500	1,351	203	106	212	15	613	1,810	1,016	125	71	143	12	443	690	335	78	35	69	3	170
English language and literature/letters	8,468	6,949	366	339	353	57	404	2,615	2,249	87	100	73	18	88	5,853	4,700	279	239	280	39	316
Family and consumer sciences	1,827	1,306	196	83	60	6	176	229	153	21	8	12	0	35	1,598	1,153	175	75	48	6	141
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,407	1,887	81	485	137	12	805	1,056	641	28	109	30	1	247	2,351	1,246	53	376	107	11	558
Health professions and related clinical sciences	46,703	33,605	4,386	2,471	3,440	301	2,500	9,816	6,575	679	557	973	67	965	36,887	27,030	3,707	1,914	2,467	234	1,535
Legal professions and studies	4,170	1,450	201	139	205	20	2,155	2,304	839	76	58	109	8	1,214	1,866	611	125	81	96	12	941
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	3,680	2,974	306	159	96	22	123	1,381	1,142	87	50	42	11	49	2,299	1,832	219	109	54	11	74
Library science	6,213	5,168	288	328	211	47	171	1,241	1,002	53	66	50	9	61	4,972	4,166	235	262	161	38	110
Mathematics and statistics	4,477	2,150	143	131	336	9	1,708	2,525	1,262	79	72	161	3	948	1,952	888	64	59	175	6	760
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	4,252	2,910	322	199	213	36	572	1,440	938	76	62	70	14	280	2,812	1,972	246	137	143	22	292
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	3,740	2,906	318	175	102	23	216	1,935	1,516	149	106	42	13	109	1,805	1,390	169	69	60	10	107
Philosophy and religious studies	1,647	1,260	80	81	74	9	143	995	753	45	56	49	6	86	652	507	35	25	25	3	57
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,678	3,463	127	168	296	24	1,600	3,457	2,087	62	97	165	12	1,034	2,221	1,376	65	71	131	12	566
Precision production	6	3	0	2	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	0	2	0	0	1
Psychology	18,830	13,422	2,493	1,310	731	136	738	3,900	2,836	435	271	160	33	165	14,930	10,586	2,058	1,039	571	103	573
Public administration and social service professions	29,552	18,817	5,374	2,303	1,181	301	1,576	7,370	4,585	1,117	551	315	66	736	22,182	14,232	4,257	1,752	866	235	840
Security and protective services	3,991	2,811	663	298	95	40	84	1,974	1,468	256	150	40	18	42	2,017	1,343	407	148	55	22	42
Social sciences and history	16,952	10,458	1,206	890	859	92	3,447	8,256	5,224	440	427	326	49	1,790	8,696	5,234	766	463	533	43	1,657
Social sciences	14,059	8,022	1,085	768	804	62	3,318	6,640	3,855	382	344	300	34	1,725	7,419	4,167	703	424	504	28	1,593
History	2,893	2,436	121	122	55	30	129	1,616	1,369	58	83	26	15	65	1,277	1,067	63	39	29	15	64
Theology and religious vocations	5,815	4,221	489	210	251	7	637	3,469	2,566	232	124	124	3	420	2,346	1,655	257	86	127	4	217
Transportation and materials moving	802	668	48	36	23	3	24	679	562	41	34	21	2	19	123	106	7	2	2	1	5
Visual and performing arts	13,183	9,152	581	558	701	79	2,112	5,646	4,078	256	279	231	43	759	7,537	5,074	325	279	470	36	1,353

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.)