Table 292.

Degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by control of institution, level of degree, and field of study: 2009-10

Field of study	All institutions				Public institutions				Private not-for-profit institutions				Private for-profit institutions
	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de- grees1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
All fields, total	849,452	1,650,014	693,025	158,558	640,113	1,049,057	322,243	78,779	46,673	503,164	299,911	75,166	162,666	97,793	70,871	4,613
Agriculture and natural resources	5,894	26,336	5,211	1,147	5,667	22,499	4,237	1,062	224	3,711	956	85	3	126	18	0
Architecture and related services	552	10,051	7,280	210	548	7,144	4,320	151	4	2,856	2,875	59	0	51	85	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	199	8,621	1,775	253	169	5,561	1,045	147	30	3,027	730	106	0	33	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,664	86,400	10,725	7,666	2,573	58,836	6,527	5,150	45	27,483	4,198	2,498	46	81	0	18
Business	133,371	358,293	177,684	2,245	73,779	196,954	62,289	852	11,931	115,877	81,980	588	47,661	45,462	33,415	805
Communications, journalism, and related programs	2,839	81,266	7,636	570	2,505	56,944	3,736	476	108	23,496	3,896	94	226	826	4	0
Communications technologies	4,419	4,782	463	3	2,714	1,188	80	0	204	1,316	268	3	1,501	2,278	115	0
Computer and information sciences	32,466	39,589	17,953	1,599	14,787	18,555	8,803	1,086	1,267	9,977	7,667	485	16,412	11,057	1,483	28
Construction trades	4,617	273	0	0	3,848	271	0	0	211	2	0	0	558	0	0	0
Education	17,048	101,265	182,139	9,233	14,361	71,874	86,238	5,042	631	28,595	77,720	3,032	2,056	796	18,181	1,159
Engineering	2,508	72,654	35,088	7,704	2,339	55,400	23,002	5,628	55	16,919	11,550	2,076	114	335	536	0
Engineering technologies and engineering-    related fields2	31,850	15,596	4,258	67	21,049	12,537	2,315	24	1,397	1,721	1,760	43	9,404	1,338	183	0
English language and literature/letters	1,658	53,231	9,201	1,332	1,227	37,072	6,069	998	11	16,080	3,118	334	420	79	14	0
Family and consumer sciences	9,573	21,818	2,580	296	7,880	18,283	1,691	246	316	3,457	738	48	1,377	78	151	2
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,683	21,516	3,755	1,091	1,340	14,840	2,695	716	343	6,672	1,060	375	0	4	0	0
Health professions and related programs	177,686	129,634	69,084	57,746	117,204	77,444	32,080	29,379	14,550	42,545	28,376	27,790	45,932	9,645	8,628	577
Homeland security, law enforcement, and    firefighting	37,260	43,667	6,714	106	23,306	26,166	2,844	95	729	9,752	1,917	0	13,225	7,749	1,953	11
Legal professions and studies	10,003	3,886	5,734	44,626	5,107	1,950	1,530	15,137	438	1,150	4,185	28,354	4,458	786	19	1,135
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	284,775	46,953	3,804	96	272,804	31,961	1,427	44	9,437	14,859	2,341	22	2,534	133	36	30
Library science	112	85	7,448	64	112	85	6,086	63	0	0	1,362	1	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	1,051	16,030	5,634	1,592	1,044	10,556	3,898	1,180	6	5,472	1,736	412	1	2	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies	16,305	206	0	0	10,221	158	0	0	1,622	47	0	0	4,462	1	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	668	56	0	0	668	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	17,671	37,648	5,973	631	16,804	28,408	3,452	397	148	8,925	2,141	234	719	315	380	0
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	2,016	33,318	5,617	266	1,389	24,935	4,247	243	163	8,243	1,275	23	464	140	95	0
Philosophy and religious studies	256	12,504	2,043	667	124	5,771	699	248	132	6,709	1,343	419	0	24	1	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,140	23,379	6,063	5,063	4,056	16,080	4,434	3,588	77	7,295	1,629	1,475	7	4	0	0
Precision production	2,787	29	10	0	2,494	11	0	0	89	18	10	0	204	0	0	0
Psychology	6,582	97,216	23,752	5,540	2,807	64,570	7,993	2,344	151	29,071	12,810	2,439	3,624	3,575	2,949	757
Public administration and social service         professions	4,526	25,414	35,729	838	4,141	15,758	21,983	507	286	7,359	12,687	248	99	2,297	1,059	83
Social sciences and history	10,649	172,780	20,222	4,238	10,546	116,370	10,944	2,844	95	54,452	8,441	1,394	8	1,958	837	0
Social sciences	10,108	137,582	16,368	3,350	10,025	92,678	8,295	2,262	78	43,084	7,476	1,088	5	1,820	597	0
History	541	35,198	3,854	888	521	23,692	2,649	582	17	11,368	965	306	3	138	240	0
Theology and religious vocations	613	8,718	12,824	2,070	0	1	0	0	605	8,587	12,775	2,062	8	130	49	8
Transportation and materials moving	1,444	4,998	1,074	0	999	2,081	82	0	395	2,811	936	0	50	106	56	0
Visual and performing arts	19,567	91,802	15,552	1,599	11,501	48,753	7,497	1,132	973	34,680	7,431	467	7,093	8,369	624	0

1 Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level, as well as such degrees as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees that were formerly classified as first-professional degrees.

2 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic 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. 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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010, Completions component. (This table was prepared May 2011.)