Table 301.

Master'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	625,023	409,312	65,062	36,801	37,408	3,758	72,682	246,491	155,035	18,357	13,057	17,227	1,280	41,535	378,532	254,277	46,705	23,744	20,181	2,478	31,147
Agriculture and natural resources	4,684	3,546	124	128	113	36	737	2,180	1,651	46	56	46	12	369	2,504	1,895	78	72	67	24	368
Architecture and related services	6,065	4,063	253	357	405	31	956	3,252	2,277	121	191	170	16	477	2,813	1,786	132	166	235	15	479
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	1,778	960	196	198	132	36	256	642	366	53	72	44	18	89	1,136	594	143	126	88	18	167
Biological and biomedical sciences	9,565	5,797	597	494	1,120	65	1,492	4,041	2,544	188	188	483	31	607	5,524	3,253	409	306	637	34	885
Business	155,637	90,269	20,569	8,553	13,604	851	21,791	86,258	53,301	7,277	4,443	7,835	415	12,987	69,379	36,968	13,292	4,110	5,769	436	8,804
Communications, journalism, and related programs	6,915	4,407	738	387	367	45	971	2,216	1,489	187	111	106	10	313	4,699	2,918	551	276	261	35	658
Communications technologies	631	282	49	39	50	0	211	364	185	25	19	26	0	109	267	97	24	20	24	0	102
Computer and information sciences	17,087	6,108	1,120	484	1,919	52	7,404	12,513	4,802	668	370	1,289	41	5,343	4,574	1,306	452	114	630	11	2,061
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	175,880	134,870	18,001	12,028	4,553	1,209	5,219	40,055	31,104	3,710	2,679	930	291	1,341	135,825	103,766	14,291	9,349	3,623	918	3,878
Engineering	31,719	12,685	993	1,145	3,700	83	13,113	24,446	10,205	705	828	2,607	64	10,037	7,273	2,480	288	317	1,093	19	3,076
Engineering technologies1	2,873	1,379	228	151	261	18	836	2,128	1,082	134	102	188	8	614	745	297	94	49	73	10	222
English language and literature/letters	9,161	7,425	499	441	347	58	391	3,027	2,510	125	135	120	33	104	6,134	4,915	374	306	227	25	287
Family and consumer sciences	2,199	1,569	247	93	83	18	189	316	224	31	18	12	2	29	1,883	1,345	216	75	71	16	160
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,565	2,082	86	531	162	13	691	1,128	701	26	151	46	6	198	2,437	1,381	60	380	116	7	493
Health professions and related clinical sciences	58,120	41,373	6,143	3,266	4,141	404	2,793	11,010	7,091	972	721	1,050	78	1,098	47,110	34,282	5,171	2,545	3,091	326	1,695
Legal professions and studies	4,754	1,575	208	164	284	16	2,507	2,394	818	75	98	123	9	1,271	2,360	757	133	66	161	7	1,236
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	3,797	2,851	348	177	171	32	218	1,443	1,075	115	69	82	13	89	2,354	1,776	233	108	89	19	129
Library science	7,162	6,043	387	350	230	44	108	1,429	1,202	66	75	47	10	29	5,733	4,841	321	275	183	34	79
Mathematics and statistics	4,980	2,393	169	175	431	12	1,800	2,860	1,420	81	104	222	4	1,029	2,120	973	88	71	209	8	771
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	5,289	3,637	424	332	285	42	569	1,807	1,213	123	100	88	17	266	3,482	2,424	301	232	197	25	303
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	4,440	3,460	394	178	98	26	284	2,313	1,788	202	93	51	13	166	2,127	1,672	192	85	47	13	118
Philosophy and religious studies	1,879	1,488	80	79	80	8	144	1,228	980	40	57	57	6	88	651	508	40	22	23	2	56
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,899	3,551	192	214	302	23	1,617	3,649	2,227	93	127	148	8	1,046	2,250	1,324	99	87	154	15	571
Precision production	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Psychology	21,431	15,097	2,920	1,680	893	128	713	4,356	3,211	421	383	177	21	143	17,075	11,886	2,499	1,297	716	107	570
Public administration and social service    professions	33,029	20,774	6,168	2,772	1,407	293	1,615	8,140	5,075	1,271	636	337	59	762	24,889	15,699	4,897	2,136	1,070	234	853
Security and protective services	5,760	3,819	1,141	505	152	36	107	2,653	1,892	373	248	74	13	53	3,107	1,927	768	257	78	23	54
Social sciences and history	18,495	11,951	1,330	952	938	89	3,235	9,349	6,235	520	469	412	35	1,678	9,146	5,716	810	483	526	54	1,557
Social sciences	15,092	9,044	1,186	820	860	71	3,111	7,393	4,536	453	388	370	28	1,618	7,699	4,508	733	432	490	43	1,493
History	3,403	2,907	144	132	78	18	124	1,956	1,699	67	81	42	7	60	1,447	1,208	77	51	36	11	64
Theology and religious vocations	6,996	5,163	662	198	304	26	643	4,443	3,292	346	131	180	16	478	2,553	1,871	316	67	124	10	165
Transportation and materials moving	982	788	71	66	27	10	20	829	674	56	53	19	9	18	153	114	15	13	8	1	2
Visual and performing arts	14,164	9,892	656	664	848	54	2,050	5,998	4,395	290	330	258	22	703	8,166	5,497	366	334	590	32	1,347
Other and not classified	84	13	69	0	1	0	1	22	4	17	0	0	0	1	62	9	52	0	1	0	0

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.)