Table 305.

Master'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	662,079	427,891	70,839	39,582	40,257	3,777	79,733	263,538	162,994	20,174	14,324	18,724	1,350	45,972	398,541	264,897	50,665	25,258	21,533	2,427	33,761
Agriculture and natural resources	4,877	3,652	167	157	160	30	711	2,328	1,784	71	65	55	12	341	2,549	1,868	96	92	105	18	370
Architecture and related services	6,587	4,434	280	390	437	36	1,010	3,657	2,558	147	212	176	18	546	2,930	1,876	133	178	261	18	464
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,779	973	199	189	134	29	255	607	354	57	58	46	9	83	1,172	619	142	131	88	20	172
Biological and biomedical sciences	10,017	5,915	567	493	1,243	41	1,758	4,250	2,587	169	202	543	18	731	5,767	3,328	398	291	700	23	1,027
Business	168,375	96,286	23,220	9,756	14,327	925	23,861	91,981	55,952	8,217	5,033	8,183	479	14,117	76,394	40,334	15,003	4,723	6,144	446	9,744
Communication, journalism, and related programs	7,092	4,408	798	413	351	37	1,085	2,212	1,438	196	115	91	13	359	4,880	2,970	602	298	260	24	726
Communications technologies	475	227	53	20	32	0	143	247	121	15	12	19	0	80	228	106	38	8	13	0	63
Computer and information sciences	17,907	6,127	1,107	504	1,781	43	8,345	13,063	4,852	680	360	1,219	29	5,923	4,844	1,275	427	144	562	14	2,422
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	178,564	136,373	18,697	12,451	4,919	1,064	5,060	40,324	31,212	3,797	2,798	1,039	266	1,212	138,240	105,161	14,900	9,653	3,880	798	3,848
Engineering	34,546	13,080	990	1,181	4,217	90	14,988	26,827	10,560	688	891	3,070	74	11,544	7,719	2,520	302	290	1,147	16	3,444
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	3,455	1,510	238	152	259	18	1,278	2,625	1,175	148	111	180	11	1,000	830	335	90	41	79	7	278
English language and literature/letters	9,261	7,560	460	468	363	59	351	3,001	2,550	101	152	86	19	93	6,260	5,010	359	316	277	40	258
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,453	1,766	304	99	93	12	179	366	273	31	11	10	3	38	2,087	1,493	273	88	83	9	141
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,592	2,054	98	533	152	14	741	1,211	756	39	153	36	5	222	2,381	1,298	59	380	116	9	519
Health professions and related programs	62,620	44,617	6,716	3,303	4,717	404	2,863	11,869	7,612	1,066	729	1,277	74	1,111	50,751	37,005	5,650	2,574	3,440	330	1,752
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	6,128	3,982	1,263	503	200	54	126	2,829	2,024	386	238	100	23	58	3,299	1,958	877	265	100	31	68
Legal professions and studies	5,150	1,582	311	200	288	19	2,750	2,683	857	125	103	151	7	1,440	2,467	725	186	97	137	12	1,310
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	3,728	2,649	356	251	216	33	223	1,439	1,041	109	94	99	8	88	2,289	1,608	247	157	117	25	135
Library science	7,091	5,911	350	391	275	50	114	1,344	1,108	50	94	59	8	25	5,747	4,803	300	297	216	42	89
Mathematics and statistics	5,211	2,376	153	162	437	9	2,074	3,064	1,436	75	100	234	7	1,212	2,147	940	78	62	203	2	862
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	5,225	3,602	383	354	254	47	585	1,896	1,280	133	114	90	14	265	3,329	2,322	250	240	164	33	320
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	4,822	3,688	443	220	136	32	303	2,605	1,971	248	136	77	15	158	2,217	1,717	195	84	59	17	145
Philosophy and religious studies	1,859	1,442	99	94	83	7	134	1,178	928	51	68	48	2	81	681	514	48	26	35	5	53
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,862	3,451	190	215	333	32	1,641	3,576	2,096	104	131	185	19	1,041	2,286	1,355	86	84	148	13	600
Precision production	10	7	0	0	0	2	1	5	3	0	0	0	2	0	5	4	0	0	0	0	1
Psychology	23,415	16,493	3,317	1,791	947	150	717	4,789	3,563	526	358	165	24	153	18,626	12,930	2,791	1,433	782	126	564
Public administration and social services	33,933	21,068	6,419	2,921	1,437	317	1,771	8,346	5,069	1,261	709	379	78	850	25,587	15,999	5,158	2,212	1,058	239	921
Social sciences and history	19,240	12,284	1,349	1,133	933	110	3,431	9,605	6,413	503	559	384	50	1,696	9,635	5,871	846	574	549	60	1,735
Social sciences	15,698	9,281	1,208	939	870	79	3,321	7,593	4,682	440	444	348	35	1,644	8,105	4,599	768	495	522	44	1,677
History	3,542	3,003	141	194	63	31	110	2,012	1,731	63	115	36	15	52	1,530	1,272	78	79	27	16	58
Theology and religious vocations	12,836	9,307	1,546	414	615	37	917	8,379	6,144	816	277	423	24	695	4,457	3,163	730	137	192	13	222
Transportation and materials moving	1,048	861	59	63	34	6	25	905	748	47	55	26	6	23	143	113	12	8	8	0	2
Visual and performing arts	14,918	10,203	707	761	884	70	2,293	6,325	4,527	318	386	274	33	787	8,593	5,676	389	375	610	37	1,506
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. 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.)