Table 303.

Doctor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2008-09

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	67,716	39,648	4,434	2,540	3,875	332	16,887	32,279	17,094	1,484	1,092	1,770	138	10,701	35,437	22,554	2,950	1,448	2,105	194	6,186
Agriculture and natural resources	1,328	676	31	29	41	6	545	741	362	9	12	17	3	338	587	314	22	17	24	3	207
Architecture and related services	212	87	7	7	22	1	88	113	38	5	6	11	0	53	99	49	2	1	11	1	35
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	239	113	41	9	15	12	49	87	37	15	4	7	4	20	152	76	26	5	8	8	29
Biological and biomedical sciences	6,957	3,822	264	254	573	31	2,013	3,292	1,830	88	120	245	16	993	3,665	1,992	176	134	328	15	1,020
Business	2,123	1,043	267	55	129	10	619	1,302	648	139	32	77	7	399	821	395	128	23	52	3	220
Communications, journalism, and related programs	533	312	41	11	13	3	153	223	136	14	3	3	1	66	310	176	27	8	10	2	87
Communications technologies	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1,580	546	34	24	131	2	843	1,226	430	23	20	98	1	654	354	116	11	4	33	1	189
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	9,028	5,852	1,585	540	301	74	676	2,956	1,994	432	187	87	25	231	6,072	3,858	1,153	353	214	49	445
Engineering	7,931	2,468	156	163	557	21	4,566	6,212	1,867	105	123	401	14	3,702	1,719	601	51	40	156	7	864
Engineering technologies1	59	26	4	0	2	0	27	47	22	2	0	1	0	22	12	4	2	0	1	0	5
English language and literature/letters	1,271	956	63	48	59	14	131	464	353	20	18	18	4	51	807	603	43	30	41	10	80
Family and consumer sciences	333	185	43	12	15	2	76	66	39	10	4	0	0	13	267	146	33	8	15	2	63
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,111	538	16	116	77	2	362	426	217	8	46	19	0	136	685	321	8	70	58	2	226
Health professions and related clinical sciences	12,112	9,599	651	400	699	62	701	3,191	2,371	157	127	237	23	276	8,921	7,228	494	273	462	39	425
Legal professions and studies	259	99	14	4	8	0	134	138	54	4	2	5	0	73	121	45	10	2	3	0	61
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	67	50	10	1	1	0	5	34	26	4	1	0	0	3	33	24	6	0	1	0	2
Library science	35	22	3	0	2	0	8	14	9	0	0	1	0	4	21	13	3	0	1	0	4
Mathematics and statistics	1,535	629	30	38	87	3	748	1,059	456	12	25	57	2	507	476	173	18	13	30	1	241
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	1,273	773	98	63	90	3	246	572	328	38	28	33	1	144	701	445	60	35	57	2	102
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	285	191	15	7	7	1	64	151	105	6	4	5	0	31	134	86	9	3	2	1	33
Philosophy and religious studies	686	481	41	12	31	2	119	472	337	26	8	19	2	80	214	144	15	4	12	0	39
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,048	2,451	89	123	227	12	2,146	3,416	1,674	42	79	129	7	1,485	1,632	777	47	44	98	5	661
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	5,477	4,046	390	328	322	34	357	1,478	1,118	78	81	69	12	120	3,999	2,928	312	247	253	22	237
Public administration and social service professions	812	468	104	35	37	4	164	306	166	29	11	8	1	91	506	302	75	24	29	3	73
Security and protective services	97	62	5	4	9	0	17	46	26	2	1	5	0	12	51	36	3	3	4	0	5
Social sciences and history	4,234	2,324	198	167	200	22	1,323	2,353	1,289	90	90	84	12	788	1,881	1,035	108	77	116	10	535
Social sciences	3,316	1,639	147	125	177	17	1,211	1,816	877	66	68	72	8	725	1,500	762	81	57	105	9	486
History	918	685	51	42	23	5	112	537	412	24	22	12	4	63	381	273	27	20	11	1	49
Theology and religious vocations	1,520	827	189	40	128	2	334	1,166	639	106	31	115	1	274	354	188	83	9	13	1	60
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	1,569	1,000	45	50	92	9	373	726	521	20	29	19	2	135	843	479	25	21	73	7	238

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. 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, 2008-09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2009. (This table was prepared September 2010.)