Table 298.

Bachelor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2007-08

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent 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	1,563,069	1,122,675	152,457	123,048	109,058	11,509	44,322	667,928	492,137	52,247	47,884	49,485	4,523	21,652	895,141	630,538	100,210	75,164	59,573	6,986	22,670
Agriculture and natural resources	24,113	20,733	761	1,174	916	217	312	12,634	11,130	353	483	406	108	154	11,479	9,603	408	691	510	109	158
Architecture and related services	9,805	6,968	490	1,052	818	60	417	5,579	4,071	280	620	379	28	201	4,226	2,897	210	432	439	32	216
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	8,454	4,654	1,227	1,196	1,017	192	168	2,641	1,468	387	349	310	70	57	5,813	3,186	840	847	707	122	111
Biological and biomedical sciences	77,854	50,875	6,113	5,180	12,961	522	2,203	31,637	21,353	1,639	2,031	5,520	223	871	46,217	29,522	4,474	3,149	7,441	299	1,332
Business	335,254	229,211	37,981	26,099	24,701	2,226	15,036	170,978	123,780	14,512	11,789	12,213	1,010	7,674	164,276	105,431	23,469	14,310	12,488	1,216	7,362
Communications, journalism, and related programs	76,382	58,104	7,563	5,392	3,378	434	1,511	27,043	21,052	2,567	1,728	1,064	133	499	49,339	37,052	4,996	3,664	2,314	301	1,012
Communications technologies	4,666	3,328	456	430	285	26	141	3,341	2,434	274	323	200	18	92	1,325	894	182	107	85	8	49
Computer and information sciences	38,476	25,734	4,461	2,764	3,470	246	1,801	31,694	22,100	2,960	2,258	2,801	184	1,391	6,782	3,634	1,501	506	669	62	410
Construction trades	180	161	7	6	6	0	0	172	157	6	3	6	0	0	8	4	1	3	0	0	0
Education	102,582	86,545	6,595	5,436	2,122	909	975	21,828	18,359	1,621	998	377	204	269	80,754	68,186	4,974	4,438	1,745	705	706
Engineering	68,676	47,617	3,252	4,419	8,850	360	4,178	56,067	39,774	2,309	3,451	6,861	307	3,365	12,609	7,843	943	968	1,989	53	813
Engineering technologies1	14,765	11,193	1,397	996	691	118	370	13,266	10,238	1,132	860	631	102	303	1,499	955	265	136	60	16	67
English language and literature/letters	55,038	43,421	4,223	3,871	2,630	367	526	17,681	14,332	1,079	1,190	816	126	138	37,357	29,089	3,144	2,681	1,814	241	388
Family and consumer sciences	21,870	16,540	2,396	1,400	1,081	201	252	2,659	1,915	365	166	153	20	40	19,211	14,625	2,031	1,234	928	181	212
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	20,977	14,865	874	3,484	1,161	120	473	6,254	4,552	238	951	353	34	126	14,723	10,313	636	2,533	808	86	347
Health professions and related clinical sciences	111,478	82,201	12,842	6,749	7,041	834	1,811	16,286	11,314	1,807	1,173	1,494	126	372	95,192	70,887	11,035	5,576	5,547	708	1,439
Legal professions and studies	3,771	2,422	643	403	245	30	28	1,089	759	115	96	101	8	10	2,682	1,663	528	307	144	22	18
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	46,940	31,585	6,533	4,999	1,944	515	1,364	15,876	11,283	2,138	1,206	592	169	488	31,064	20,302	4,395	3,793	1,352	346	876
Library science	68	67	1	0	0	0	0	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	62	61	1	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	15,192	11,139	818	943	1,531	77	684	8,490	6,224	416	510	882	51	407	6,702	4,915	402	433	649	26	277
Mechanics and repair technologies	232	186	11	11	7	5	12	219	174	10	11	7	5	12	13	12	1	0	0	0	0
Military technologies	39	31	4	3	0	1	0	35	29	2	3	0	1	0	4	2	2	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	36,149	24,739	3,239	4,352	2,651	249	919	11,279	7,990	973	972	927	80	337	24,870	16,749	2,266	3,380	1,724	169	582
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	29,931	23,204	2,937	2,044	1,023	230	493	15,615	11,868	1,712	1,156	527	116	236	14,316	11,336	1,225	888	496	114	257
Philosophy and religious studies	12,257	9,893	665	769	701	77	152	7,696	6,255	364	502	425	50	100	4,561	3,638	301	267	276	27	52
Physical sciences and science technologies	21,934	16,307	1,264	1,138	2,225	149	851	12,959	10,057	536	636	1,163	70	497	8,975	6,250	728	502	1,062	79	354
Precision production	33	25	2	4	1	0	1	22	18	2	1	1	0	0	11	7	0	3	0	0	1
Psychology	92,587	64,410	10,940	8,816	6,274	676	1,471	21,202	14,946	2,096	1,921	1,754	160	325	71,385	49,464	8,844	6,895	4,520	516	1,146
Public administration and social service    professions	23,493	13,726	5,447	2,915	848	256	301	4,202	2,553	829	501	195	55	69	19,291	11,173	4,618	2,414	653	201	232
Security and protective services	40,235	25,359	7,599	5,269	1,253	348	407	20,149	14,149	2,695	2,274	698	142	191	20,086	11,210	4,904	2,995	555	206	216
Social sciences and history	167,363	118,552	15,290	14,646	13,051	1,376	4,448	84,868	63,521	5,821	6,451	6,218	637	2,220	82,495	55,031	9,469	8,195	6,833	739	2,228
Social sciences	132,922	90,112	13,545	12,222	11,736	1,088	4,219	64,512	46,324	5,009	5,081	5,530	468	2,100	68,410	43,788	8,536	7,141	6,206	620	2,119
History	34,441	28,440	1,745	2,424	1,315	288	229	20,356	17,197	812	1,370	688	169	120	14,085	11,243	933	1,054	627	119	109
Theology and religious vocations	8,992	7,646	599	323	197	31	196	5,873	5,089	294	202	127	15	146	3,119	2,557	305	121	70	16	50
Transportation and materials moving	5,203	4,159	347	345	194	44	114	4,604	3,688	305	311	170	35	95	599	471	42	34	24	9	19
Visual and performing arts	87,703	67,039	5,155	6,416	5,782	613	2,698	33,862	25,488	2,306	2,756	2,113	236	963	53,841	41,551	2,849	3,660	3,669	377	1,735
Other and not classified	377	36	325	4	3	0	9	122	11	104	2	1	0	4	255	25	221	2	2	0	5

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately.

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. 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, 2007-08 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2008. (This table was prepared June 2009.)