Table 285.

Bachelor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2006–07

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	1,524,092	1,099,850	146,653	114,936	105,297	11,455	45,901	649,570	480,558	49,685	44,750	47,582	4,505	22,490	874,522	619,292	96,968	70,186	57,715	6,950	23,411
Agriculture and natural resources	23,133	20,116	680	859	901	214	363	12,309	10,961	290	399	383	111	165	10,824	9,155	390	460	518	103	198
Architecture and related services	9,717	6,983	455	948	867	51	413	5,393	3,965	264	541	393	33	197	4,324	3,018	191	407	474	18	216
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	8,194	4,486	1,095	1,175	1,045	194	199	2,572	1,399	352	363	335	69	54	5,622	3,087	743	812	710	125	145
Biological and biomedical sciences	75,151	50,120	5,950	4,651	11,665	539	2,226	29,951	20,797	1,577	1,807	4,727	209	834	45,200	29,323	4,373	2,844	6,938	330	1,392
Business	327,531	223,221	37,054	24,724	24,361	2,174	15,997	166,350	120,356	13,947	11,099	11,789	995	8,164	161,181	102,865	23,107	13,625	12,572	1,179	7,833
Communications, journalism, and related programs	74,783	56,929	7,528	5,031	3,329	452	1,514	26,444	20,491	2,537	1,698	1,049	147	522	48,339	36,438	4,991	3,333	2,280	305	992
Communications technologies	3,637	2,614	346	306	251	19	101	2,565	1,879	212	231	164	12	67	1,072	735	134	75	87	7	34
Computer and information sciences	42,170	27,626	5,066	2,835	3,937	275	2,431	34,342	23,600	3,262	2,257	3,121	205	1,897	7,828	4,026	1,804	578	816	70	534
Construction trades	129	113	4	6	5	0	1	122	108	3	6	4	0	1	7	5	1	0	1	0	0
Education	105,641	89,868	6,739	5,111	2,043	909	971	22,516	18,979	1,661	979	434	185	278	83,125	70,889	5,078	4,132	1,609	724	693
Engineering	67,092	45,994	3,307	4,092	8,980	316	4,403	54,745	38,574	2,299	3,181	6,934	248	3,509	12,347	7,420	1,008	911	2,046	68	894
Engineering technologies1	14,588	11,125	1,396	854	700	141	372	13,114	10,194	1,135	738	617	112	318	1,474	931	261	116	83	29	54
English language and literature/letters	55,122	43,722	4,148	3,669	2,648	378	557	17,475	14,248	1,008	1,164	763	136	156	37,647	29,474	3,140	2,505	1,885	242	401
Family and consumer sciences	21,400	16,334	2,312	1,237	1,052	195	270	2,594	1,885	342	158	145	27	37	18,806	14,449	1,970	1,079	907	168	233
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	20,275	14,420	828	3,366	1,133	129	399	6,173	4,522	214	928	358	41	110	14,102	9,898	614	2,438	775	88	289
Health professions and related clinical sciences	101,810	75,579	11,413	6,069	5,993	777	1,979	14,325	10,146	1,483	1,043	1,182	120	351	87,485	65,433	9,930	5,026	4,811	657	1,628
Legal professions and studies	3,596	2,290	661	356	239	22	28	1,008	684	135	101	80	2	6	2,588	1,606	526	255	159	20	22
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	44,255	29,719	6,040	4,722	2,520	499	755	14,123	9,978	1,799	1,092	844	162	248	30,132	19,741	4,241	3,630	1,676	337	507
Library science	82	78	1	1	0	2	0	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	72	68	1	1	0	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	14,954	10,965	858	956	1,469	66	640	8,360	6,160	415	540	812	37	396	6,594	4,805	443	416	657	29	244
Mechanics and repair technologies	263	197	21	21	11	5	8	249	187	19	19	11	5	8	14	10	2	2	0	0	0
Military technologies	168	150	5	6	4	3	0	152	136	5	6	2	3	0	16	14	0	0	2	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	33,792	23,266	2,883	4,193	2,326	299	825	10,439	7,459	830	914	859	101	276	23,353	15,807	2,053	3,279	1,467	198	549
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	27,430	21,467	2,557	1,830	852	242	482	14,190	10,888	1,491	1,017	441	114	239	13,240	10,579	1,066	813	411	128	243
Philosophy and religious studies	11,969	9,750	600	662	692	92	173	7,430	6,157	321	387	401	55	109	4,539	3,593	279	275	291	37	64
Physical sciences and science technologies	21,073	15,909	1,208	953	2,031	157	815	12,455	9,826	522	548	1,018	78	463	8,618	6,083	686	405	1,013	79	352
Precision production	23	17	0	2	3	1	0	12	10	0	1	0	1	0	11	7	0	1	3	0	0
Psychology	90,039	63,219	10,361	8,334	5,922	646	1,557	20,343	14,587	1,879	1,802	1,591	142	342	69,696	48,632	8,482	6,532	4,331	504	1,215
Public administration and social service professions	23,147	13,605	5,355	2,753	820	280	334	4,354	2,604	868	561	195	65	61	18,793	11,001	4,487	2,192	625	215	273
Security and protective services	39,206	25,215	7,162	4,795	1,179	362	493	19,505	13,804	2,575	2,101	649	163	213	19,701	11,411	4,587	2,694	530	199	280
Social sciences and history	164,183	117,453	14,689	13,762	12,626	1,295	4,358	82,417	62,263	5,449	6,012	5,947	583	2,163	81,766	55,190	9,240	7,750	6,679	712	2,195
Social sciences	129,737	88,837	12,993	11,472	11,261	1,024	4,150	62,200	45,075	4,674	4,720	5,248	440	2,043	67,537	43,762	8,319	6,752	6,013	584	2,107
History	34,446	28,616	1,696	2,290	1,365	271	208	20,217	17,188	775	1,292	699	143	120	14,229	11,428	921	998	666	128	88
Theology and religious vocations	8,696	7,323	638	308	222	41	164	5,761	4,956	344	186	134	29	112	2,935	2,367	294	122	88	12	52
Transportation and materials moving	5,657	4,592	296	372	210	67	120	5,043	4,101	268	331	181	58	104	614	491	28	41	29	9	16
Visual and performing arts	85,186	65,385	4,997	5,977	5,261	613	2,953	32,729	24,644	2,179	2,540	2,019	257	1,090	52,457	40,741	2,818	3,437	3,242	356	1,863

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, 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2007. (This table was prepared July 2008.)