Table 291.

Doctor'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	60,616	34,071	3,727	2,034	3,541	249	16,994	30,251	15,268	1,282	892	1,703	96	11,010	30,365	18,803	2,445	1,142	1,838	153	5,984
Agriculture and natural resources	1,272	634	26	18	30	3	561	768	384	7	12	13	1	351	504	250	19	6	17	2	210
Architecture and related services	178	68	4	9	9	0	88	104	37	3	5	4	0	55	74	31	1	4	5	0	33
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	233	123	45	16	18	6	25	95	52	20	5	8	3	7	138	71	25	11	10	3	18
Biological and biomedical sciences	6,354	3,463	182	203	566	23	1,917	3,221	1,790	75	99	257	8	992	3,133	1,673	107	104	309	15	925
Business	2,029	928	173	66	148	6	708	1,188	552	78	45	87	5	421	841	376	95	21	61	1	287
Communications, journalism, and related programs	479	268	44	5	19	1	142	188	102	7	3	6	0	70	291	166	37	2	13	1	72
Communications technologies	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1,595	496	34	19	127	3	916	1,267	401	20	15	96	2	733	328	95	14	4	31	1	183
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	8,261	5,394	1,464	383	302	60	658	2,681	1,840	383	125	84	16	233	5,580	3,554	1,081	258	218	44	425
Engineering	8,062	2,143	127	147	552	9	5,084	6,377	1,693	85	97	422	7	4,073	1,685	450	42	50	130	2	1,011
Engineering technologies1	61	23	3	3	3	0	29	45	18	2	2	1	0	22	16	5	1	1	2	0	7
English language and literature/letters	1,178	890	68	41	46	9	124	478	386	12	19	16	2	43	700	504	56	22	30	7	81
Family and consumer sciences	337	189	40	10	10	2	86	73	43	5	0	4	1	20	264	146	35	10	6	1	66
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,059	533	17	86	62	1	360	437	243	6	37	22	0	129	622	290	11	49	40	1	231
Health professions and related clinical sciences	8,355	6,530	363	255	483	26	698	2,242	1,588	105	87	141	6	315	6,113	4,942	258	168	342	20	383
Legal professions and studies	143	19	4	2	3	0	115	78	7	3	1	1	0	66	65	12	1	1	2	0	49
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	77	59	5	4	1	2	6	38	24	3	4	1	1	5	39	35	2	0	0	1	1
Library science	52	25	6	2	2	0	17	18	8	1	1	1	0	7	34	17	5	1	1	0	10
Mathematics and statistics	1,351	508	24	24	86	1	708	949	360	18	19	54	0	498	402	148	6	5	32	1	210
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	1,093	687	60	48	75	6	217	485	270	31	24	43	3	114	608	417	29	24	32	3	103
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	218	134	12	7	13	0	52	109	70	3	3	8	0	25	109	64	9	4	5	0	27
Philosophy and religious studies	637	444	28	24	31	2	108	453	317	20	19	19	1	77	184	127	8	5	12	1	31
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,846	2,233	100	107	249	10	2,147	3,317	1,530	57	64	146	9	1,511	1,529	703	43	43	103	1	636
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	5,153	3,853	347	297	310	46	300	1,382	1,069	78	70	65	15	85	3,771	2,784	269	227	245	31	215
Public administration and social service professions	726	409	112	34	39	4	128	253	130	34	11	11	2	65	473	279	78	23	28	2	63
Security and protective services	85	58	7	6	2	1	11	43	29	4	3	1	0	6	42	29	3	3	1	1	5
Social sciences and history	3,844	2,139	187	147	167	23	1,181	2,110	1,132	70	80	82	12	734	1,734	1,007	117	67	85	11	447
Social sciences	3,037	1,547	138	104	140	17	1,091	1,627	775	43	54	68	9	678	1,410	772	95	50	72	8	413
History	807	592	49	43	27	6	90	483	357	27	26	14	3	56	324	235	22	17	13	3	34
Theology and religious vocations	1,573	946	213	30	108	3	273	1,227	738	138	20	95	2	234	346	208	75	10	13	1	39
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	1,364	874	32	41	80	2	335	625	455	14	22	15	0	119	739	419	18	19	65	2	216

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. Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level. Excludes first-professional, such as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees. 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.)