Table 278.

Master's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and major field of study: 2005-06

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	594,065	393,357	58,976	32,438	34,029	3,504	71,761	237,896	150,954	16,959	11,637	15,803	1,244	41,299	356,169	242,403	42,017	20,801	18,226	2,260	30,462
Agriculture and natural resources	4,640	3,480	128	153	97	42	740	2,280	1,694	51	63	38	21	413	2,360	1,786	77	90	59	21	327
Architecture and related services	5,743	3,791	237	315	372	36	992	3,165	2,179	122	169	150	24	521	2,578	1,612	115	146	222	12	471
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	2,080	1,223	184	204	159	35	275	771	491	56	66	48	10	100	1,309	732	128	138	111	25	175
Biological and biomedical sciences	8,681	5,602	468	344	920	49	1,298	3,654	2,433	147	162	389	18	505	5,027	3,169	321	182	531	31	793
Business	146,406	86,404	17,933	7,191	11,923	731	22,224	83,550	52,133	6,578	3,920	6,872	360	13,687	62,856	34,271	11,355	3,271	5,051	371	8,537
Communications, journalism, and related programs	7,244	4,730	702	381	380	25	1,026	2,282	1,546	158	117	103	8	350	4,962	3,184	544	264	277	17	676
Communications technologies	501	227	62	22	47	1	142	329	165	43	13	28	1	79	172	62	19	9	19	0	63
Computer and information sciences	17,055	6,680	996	494	2,168	68	6,649	12,470	5,261	584	360	1,423	49	4,793	4,585	1,419	412	134	745	19	1,856
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	174,620	134,221	18,237	11,233	4,446	1,144	5,339	40,700	31,556	3,852	2,578	962	303	1,449	133,920	102,665	14,385	8,655	3,484	841	3,890
Engineering	30,989	12,570	880	980	3,340	89	13,130	23,855	10,048	615	747	2,344	67	10,034	7,134	2,522	265	233	996	22	3,096
Engineering technologies1	2,541	1,363	235	106	249	15	573	1,811	989	132	72	179	11	428	730	374	103	34	70	4	145
English language and literature/letters	8,845	7,247	465	377	293	61	402	2,860	2,416	126	114	79	23	102	5,985	4,831	339	263	214	38	300
Family and consumer sciences	1,983	1,417	225	97	62	17	165	259	191	26	9	5	3	25	1,724	1,226	199	88	57	14	140
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,539	2,076	77	489	160	10	727	1,049	649	19	111	56	2	212	2,490	1,427	58	378	104	8	515
Health professions and related clinical sciences	51,380	36,452	5,054	2,780	3,717	349	3,028	10,630	6,963	820	642	1,048	81	1,076	40,750	29,489	4,234	2,138	2,669	268	1,952
Legal professions and studies	4,453	1,549	259	171	223	17	2,234	2,374	844	110	83	111	7	1,219	2,079	705	149	88	112	10	1,015
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	3,702	2,946	298	178	114	20	146	1,403	1,100	112	58	52	9	72	2,299	1,846	186	120	62	11	74
Library science	6,448	5,485	306	240	226	42	149	1,211	1,034	42	51	44	6	34	5,237	4,451	264	189	182	36	115
Mathematics and statistics	4,730	2,268	163	146	412	12	1,729	2,712	1,289	80	93	220	8	1,022	2,018	979	83	53	192	4	707
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	4,491	3,134	325	275	209	37	511	1,560	1,045	91	89	69	10	256	2,931	2,089	234	186	140	27	255
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	3,992	3,197	327	140	108	9	211	2,069	1,655	164	70	58	4	118	1,923	1,542	163	70	50	5	93
Philosophy and religious studies	1,739	1,358	89	68	64	11	149	1,046	804	47	43	44	10	98	693	554	42	25	20	1	51
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,922	3,583	195	193	266	19	1,666	3,568	2,174	98	113	139	12	1,032	2,354	1,409	97	80	127	7	634
Precision production	9	6	0	0	1	0	2	6	5	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	1
Psychology	19,770	14,340	2,403	1,354	803	141	729	4,079	3,065	397	278	160	19	160	15,691	11,275	2,006	1,076	643	122	569
Public administration and social service professions	30,510	19,529	5,474	2,425	1,222	279	1,581	7,572	4,703	1,169	555	338	65	742	22,938	14,826	4,305	1,870	884	214	839
Security and protective services	4,277	2,965	754	288	126	22	122	2,096	1,528	272	147	68	9	72	2,181	1,437	482	141	58	13	50
Social sciences and history	17,369	10,932	1,333	945	883	110	3,166	8,415	5,470	497	437	371	44	1,596	8,954	5,462	836	508	512	66	1,570
Social sciences	14,377	8,439	1,198	806	820	83	3,031	6,792	4,094	433	357	340	31	1,537	7,585	4,345	765	449	480	52	1,494
History	2,992	2,493	135	139	63	27	135	1,623	1,376	64	80	31	13	59	1,369	1,117	71	59	32	14	76
Theology and religious vocations	6,092	4,490	501	194	305	25	577	3,658	2,724	225	127	158	16	408	2,434	1,766	276	67	147	9	169
Transportation and materials moving	784	601	68	46	27	13	29	661	511	58	37	26	9	20	123	90	10	9	1	4	9
Visual and performing arts	13,530	9,491	598	609	707	75	2,050	5,801	4,289	268	313	221	35	675	7,729	5,202	330	296	486	40	1,375

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately. NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. 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, 2005–06 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2006. (This table was prepared June 2007.)