Table 307.

Doctor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2009-10

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	158,558	104,426	10,417	8,085	16,625	952	18,053	76,605	50,705	3,622	3,641	7,230	430	10,977	81,953	53,721	6,795	4,444	9,395	522	7,076
Agriculture and natural resources	1,147	569	51	38	41	6	442	625	299	18	14	19	3	272	522	270	33	24	22	3	170
Architecture and related services	210	84	8	7	23	1	87	116	50	3	4	10	0	49	94	34	5	3	13	1	38
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	253	116	35	18	29	8	47	107	56	16	9	5	2	19	146	60	19	9	24	6	28
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,666	4,198	236	335	738	24	2,135	3,600	2,011	66	156	301	8	1,058	4,066	2,187	170	179	437	16	1,077
Business	2,245	1,141	288	79	132	15	590	1,335	708	131	39	76	6	375	910	433	157	40	56	9	215
Communication, journalism, and related programs	570	369	25	17	30	0	129	224	151	8	4	14	0	47	346	218	17	13	16	0	82
Communications technologies	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1,599	607	48	17	146	3	778	1,250	481	31	9	108	3	618	349	126	17	8	38	0	160
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	9,233	6,122	1,595	489	351	45	631	3,023	2,059	447	168	108	12	229	6,210	4,063	1,148	321	243	33	402
Engineering	7,704	2,471	162	209	564	9	4,289	5,934	1,917	107	139	373	8	3,390	1,770	554	55	70	191	1	899
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	67	34	1	1	5	1	25	50	25	1	1	2	0	21	17	9	0	0	3	1	4
English language and literature/letters	1,332	1,041	61	43	56	9	122	522	422	21	16	18	3	42	810	619	40	27	38	6	80
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	296	163	30	13	14	4	72	64	35	6	2	1	1	19	232	128	24	11	13	3	53
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,091	562	20	97	44	4	364	446	233	5	35	10	2	161	645	329	15	62	34	2	203
Health professions and related programs	57,746	40,134	3,426	2,652	9,405	337	1,792	23,946	16,904	1,097	1,113	3,921	139	772	33,800	23,230	2,329	1,539	5,484	198	1,020
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	106	71	7	2	5	1	20	57	35	3	2	4	1	12	49	36	4	0	1	0	8
Legal professions and studies	44,626	33,106	3,216	3,190	3,764	369	981	23,552	18,415	1,216	1,553	1,704	179	485	21,074	14,691	2,000	1,637	2,060	190	496
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	96	71	9	5	1	0	10	40	32	4	1	0	0	3	56	39	5	4	1	0	7
Library science	64	38	4	3	2	0	17	20	10	2	2	0	0	6	44	28	2	1	2	0	11
Mathematics and statistics	1,592	706	27	34	92	2	731	1,116	523	17	25	49	2	500	476	183	10	9	43	0	231
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	631	393	48	25	31	6	128	265	159	14	13	10	3	66	366	234	34	12	21	3	62
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	266	178	16	6	12	2	52	140	89	8	4	3	1	35	126	89	8	2	9	1	17
Philosophy and religious studies	667	481	33	24	31	1	97	450	333	19	15	18	1	64	217	148	14	9	13	0	33
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,063	2,481	102	126	256	15	2,083	3,404	1,679	57	67	157	11	1,433	1,659	802	45	59	99	4	650
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	5,540	4,116	376	321	326	31	370	1,478	1,152	60	75	63	11	117	4,062	2,964	316	246	263	20	253
Public administration and social services	838	454	110	36	51	4	183	323	170	31	12	15	2	93	515	284	79	24	36	2	90
Social sciences and history	4,238	2,406	196	194	204	32	1,206	2,292	1,295	79	106	84	17	711	1,946	1,111	117	88	120	15	495
Social sciences	3,350	1,762	144	146	173	20	1,105	1,805	931	56	77	71	11	659	1,545	831	88	69	102	9	446
History	888	644	52	48	31	12	101	487	364	23	29	13	6	52	401	280	29	19	18	6	49
Theology and religious vocations	2,070	1,293	246	43	148	14	326	1,525	948	139	25	124	11	278	545	345	107	18	24	3	48
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	1,599	1,019	41	61	124	9	345	700	514	16	32	33	4	101	899	505	25	29	91	5	244
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. 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.

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 November 2011.)