Table 302.

Bachelor'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	1,601,368	1,144,614	156,615	129,527	112,508	12,221	45,883	685,382	503,357	53,473	50,629	50,741	4,849	22,333	915,986	641,257	103,142	78,898	61,767	7,372	23,550
Agriculture and natural resources	24,988	21,441	742	1,128	1,075	268	334	13,101	11,496	355	489	477	133	151	11,887	9,945	387	639	598	135	183
Architecture and related services	10,119	7,215	486	1,017	922	65	414	5,797	4,237	288	607	438	32	195	4,322	2,978	198	410	484	33	219
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	8,772	4,804	1,192	1,241	1,087	209	239	2,735	1,493	380	353	359	68	82	6,037	3,311	812	888	728	141	157
Biological and biomedical sciences	82,825	53,532	6,479	5,662	14,173	597	2,382	33,705	22,575	1,784	2,244	5,949	233	920	49,120	30,957	4,695	3,418	8,224	364	1,462
Business	347,985	237,403	39,532	27,972	25,493	2,216	15,369	177,862	128,420	15,035	12,773	12,685	1,046	7,903	170,123	108,983	24,497	15,199	12,808	1,170	7,466
Communications, journalism, and related programs	78,009	59,112	7,636	5,677	3,565	472	1,547	27,519	21,346	2,594	1,797	1,098	169	515	50,490	37,766	5,042	3,880	2,467	303	1,032
Communications technologies	5,100	3,642	462	507	308	37	144	3,699	2,668	299	397	207	29	99	1,401	974	163	110	101	8	45
Computer and information sciences	37,994	25,607	4,322	2,792	3,216	238	1,819	31,215	21,996	2,813	2,250	2,568	170	1,418	6,779	3,611	1,509	542	648	68	401
Construction trades	168	138	13	9	8	0	0	163	136	10	9	8	0	0	5	2	3	0	0	0	0
Education	101,708	85,338	6,645	5,832	1,974	926	993	21,159	17,674	1,601	1,008	426	189	261	80,549	67,664	5,044	4,824	1,548	737	732
Engineering	68,911	47,752	3,255	4,675	8,782	363	4,084	56,552	40,072	2,360	3,711	6,880	285	3,244	12,359	7,680	895	964	1,902	78	840
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	15,112	11,591	1,373	960	611	141	436	13,589	10,614	1,124	844	524	118	365	1,523	977	249	116	87	23	71
English language and literature/letters	55,462	43,579	4,225	3,982	2,805	384	487	17,973	14,536	1,092	1,270	817	117	141	37,489	29,043	3,133	2,712	1,988	267	346
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	21,905	16,410	2,437	1,464	1,108	198	288	2,754	1,958	394	164	160	21	57	19,151	14,452	2,043	1,300	948	177	231
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	21,158	14,872	919	3,525	1,246	131	465	6,302	4,583	237	922	395	44	121	14,856	10,289	682	2,603	851	87	344
Health professions and related programs	120,488	87,999	13,827	7,430	8,237	928	2,067	17,792	12,295	1,987	1,255	1,726	135	394	102,696	75,704	11,840	6,175	6,511	793	1,673
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	41,800	25,902	8,011	5,873	1,268	428	318	21,073	14,572	2,881	2,549	728	201	142	20,727	11,330	5,130	3,324	540	227	176
Legal professions and studies	3,822	2,443	656	407	255	28	33	1,037	713	126	91	89	7	11	2,785	1,730	530	316	166	21	22
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	47,096	31,908	6,701	4,585	1,653	610	1,639	16,616	11,781	2,188	1,266	522	232	627	30,480	20,127	4,513	3,319	1,131	378	1,012
Library science	78	74	2	2	0	0	0	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	70	67	2	1	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	15,496	11,213	876	993	1,598	72	744	8,793	6,346	458	570	929	35	455	6,703	4,867	418	423	669	37	289
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	223	174	20	5	9	5	10	207	159	19	5	9	5	10	16	15	1	0	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	55	44	2	4	2	2	1	54	43	2	4	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	35,375	24,185	3,422	4,351	2,271	297	849	11,077	7,928	963	949	830	97	310	24,298	16,257	2,459	3,402	1,441	200	539
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	31,667	24,251	3,118	2,316	1,210	257	515	16,666	12,515	1,802	1,308	616	132	293	15,001	11,736	1,316	1,008	594	125	222
Philosophy and religious studies	12,444	9,889	761	793	749	101	151	7,761	6,257	421	495	431	64	93	4,683	3,632	340	298	318	37	58
Physical sciences and science technologies	22,688	16,730	1,319	1,178	2,380	181	900	13,463	10,388	569	648	1,223	105	530	9,225	6,342	750	530	1,157	76	370
Precision production	29	24	1	1	2	0	1	19	15	1	0	2	0	1	10	9	0	1	0	0	0
Psychology	94,271	64,699	11,270	9,609	6,416	672	1,605	21,488	15,061	2,078	2,099	1,749	164	337	72,783	49,638	9,192	7,510	4,667	508	1,268
Public administration and social services	23,851	14,053	5,498	2,845	883	282	290	4,374	2,703	837	496	216	63	59	19,477	11,350	4,661	2,349	667	219	231
Social sciences and history	168,500	119,023	15,183	15,088	13,202	1,392	4,612	85,197	63,547	5,806	6,581	6,312	620	2,331	83,303	55,476	9,377	8,507	6,890	772	2,281
Social sciences	133,789	90,330	13,527	12,645	11,821	1,102	4,364	64,757	46,338	4,966	5,184	5,610	462	2,197	69,032	43,992	8,561	7,461	6,211	640	2,167
History	34,711	28,693	1,656	2,443	1,381	290	248	20,440	17,209	840	1,397	702	158	134	14,271	11,484	816	1,046	679	132	114
Theology and religious vocations	8,940	7,534	591	354	219	54	188	5,950	5,118	298	223	145	35	131	2,990	2,416	293	131	74	19	57
Transportation and materials moving	5,189	4,183	304	326	185	46	145	4,631	3,748	270	286	164	38	125	558	435	34	40	21	8	20
Visual and performing arts	89,140	67,850	5,335	6,924	5,596	621	2,814	35,051	26,357	2,401	2,965	2,057	260	1,011	54,089	41,493	2,934	3,959	3,539	361	1,803
Other and not classified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," 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. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2009, Completions component. (This table was prepared November 2011.)