Table 304.

Doctor'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	63,712	36,390	3,906	2,279	3,618	272	17,247	31,215	16,168	1,312	977	1,628	115	11,015	32,497	20,222	2,594	1,302	1,990	157	6,232
Agriculture and natural resources	1,257	633	31	22	41	8	522	742	389	10	13	17	5	308	515	244	21	9	24	3	214
Architecture and related services	199	66	10	5	26	0	92	103	31	4	4	12	0	52	96	35	6	1	14	0	40
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	270	132	41	14	12	7	64	103	50	20	6	2	3	22	167	82	21	8	10	4	42
Biological and biomedical sciences	6,918	3,690	241	253	595	17	2,122	3,403	1,873	91	118	271	5	1,045	3,515	1,817	150	135	324	12	1,077
Business	2,084	1,004	228	60	114	15	663	1,250	624	110	39	64	12	401	834	380	118	21	50	3	262
Communications, journalism, and related programs	489	275	47	18	18	3	128	206	121	8	7	11	0	59	283	154	39	11	7	3	69
Communications technologies	7	2	2	0	0	0	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	2	0	0	0	2
Computer and information sciences	1,698	526	30	14	102	0	1,026	1,323	410	15	11	80	0	807	375	116	15	3	22	0	219
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	8,491	5,589	1,437	442	283	61	679	2,773	1,906	383	149	58	24	253	5,718	3,683	1,054	293	225	37	426
Engineering	8,112	2,324	140	140	552	16	4,940	6,368	1,788	88	99	385	11	3,997	1,744	536	52	41	167	5	943
Engineering technologies1	55	25	2	0	2	0	26	45	21	1	0	2	0	21	10	4	1	0	0	0	5
English language and literature/letters	1,262	977	52	42	65	2	124	453	366	12	22	18	2	33	809	611	40	20	47	0	91
Family and consumer sciences	323	163	44	12	9	1	94	84	46	6	3	1	0	28	239	117	38	9	8	1	66
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,078	541	23	84	47	4	379	431	231	7	27	15	3	148	647	310	16	57	32	1	231
Health professions and related clinical sciences	9,886	7,738	456	359	577	45	711	2,674	1,941	101	125	180	11	316	7,212	5,797	355	234	397	34	395
Legal professions and studies	172	30	4	1	5	0	132	104	18	3	0	2	0	81	68	12	1	1	3	0	51
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,
and humanities	76	59	9	2	0	1	5	30	24	4	1	0	0	1	46	35	5	1	0	1	4
Library science	64	34	4	2	3	0	21	21	12	4	0	0	0	5	43	22	0	2	3	0	16
Mathematics and statistics	1,360	550	25	33	59	2	691	938	376	13	28	33	2	486	422	174	12	5	26	0	205
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	1,142	683	67	50	79	7	256	506	297	24	27	35	2	121	636	386	43	23	44	5	135
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	228	151	6	6	6	1	58	126	82	2	4	4	1	33	102	69	4	2	2	0	25
Philosophy and religious studies	635	449	34	12	39	4	97	442	321	21	10	26	3	61	193	128	13	2	13	1	36
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,804	2,228	92	120	243	8	2,113	3,363	1,579	50	73	146	6	1,509	1,441	649	42	47	97	2	604
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	5,296	3,935	358	325	317	44	317	1,440	1,112	83	80	68	13	84	3,856	2,823	275	245	249	31	233
Public administration and social service    professions	760	446	103	39	40	4	128	269	155	22	13	14	1	64	491	291	81	26	26	3	64
Security and protective services	88	55	11	2	4	1	15	39	20	6	1	3	0	9	49	35	5	1	1	1	6
Social sciences and history	4,059	2,254	185	162	205	15	1,238	2,194	1,191	85	75	84	9	750	1,865	1,063	100	87	121	6	488
Social sciences	3,199	1,619	128	121	177	9	1,145	1,705	818	60	54	75	5	693	1,494	801	68	67	102	4	452
History	860	635	57	41	28	6	93	489	373	25	21	9	4	57	371	262	32	20	19	2	36
Theology and religious vocations	1,446	886	182	25	87	1	265	1,107	686	117	21	71	0	212	339	200	65	4	16	1	53
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	1,453	945	42	35	88	5	338	675	496	22	21	26	2	108	778	449	20	14	62	3	230

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, 2007-08 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2008. (This table was prepared June 2009.)