Table 333.

Master's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2009-10 and 2010-11

Field of study	2009-10							2010-11
	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	Two or more races	Non- resi- dent alien
												Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
All fields, total	693,025	445,038	76,458	43,535	42,702	3,960	81,332	730,635	462,903	80,706	46,787	43,728	42,381	1,347	3,948	6,700	85,863
Agriculture and natural resources	5,211	3,849	176	199	195	46	746	5,773	4,166	218	222	233	229	4	38	53	843
Architecture and related services	7,280	4,826	348	439	509	28	1,130	7,788	5,017	336	538	549	542	7	37	72	1,239
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,775	955	176	198	146	32	268	1,914	1,071	213	200	115	109	6	26	34	255
Biological and biomedical sciences	10,725	6,273	608	523	1,441	54	1,826	11,327	6,461	691	600	1,464	1,437	27	46	129	1,936
Business	177,684	101,058	25,237	10,747	15,403	955	24,284	187,213	105,520	26,712	11,680	15,378	14,906	472	921	1,618	25,384
Communication, journalism, and related programs	7,636	4,779	821	491	375	41	1,129	8,303	5,136	868	577	365	359	6	38	106	1,213
Communications technologies	463	211	37	31	22	2	160	502	214	46	23	27	27	0	2	0	190
Computer and information sciences	17,953	6,174	1,324	694	1,752	54	7,955	19,446	6,501	1,417	688	1,926	1,893	33	56	125	8,733
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	182,139	138,974	19,258	12,985	5,054	1,060	4,808	185,009	139,909	19,816	12,925	5,002	4,679	323	1,088	1,507	4,762
Engineering	35,088	13,427	1,063	1,298	4,006	87	15,207	38,719	14,807	1,139	1,547	4,102	4,081	21	73	298	16,753
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	4,258	1,997	322	275	295	27	1,342	4,515	2,190	372	220	373	372	1	29	46	1,285
English language and literature/letters	9,201	7,474	478	504	312	63	370	9,476	7,529	462	566	347	334	13	69	148	355
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,580	1,808	333	135	98	21	185	2,918	2,056	412	152	77	76	1	17	22	182
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,755	2,099	84	567	213	36	756	3,727	2,114	79	592	166	163	3	21	36	719
Health professions and related programs	69,084	48,256	7,872	3,935	5,324	454	3,243	75,579	52,288	8,452	4,547	5,823	5,689	134	481	545	3,443
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	6,714	4,215	1,497	612	199	63	128	7,433	4,664	1,715	640	197	176	21	56	50	111
Legal professions and studies	5,734	1,861	320	222	289	28	3,014	6,300	2,185	386	287	365	361	4	21	42	3,014
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	3,804	2,797	366	232	143	27	239	3,971	2,859	378	206	187	181	6	24	56	261
Library science	7,448	6,217	369	449	279	42	92	7,727	6,474	381	372	284	280	4	45	48	123
Mathematics and statistics	5,634	2,532	166	167	472	12	2,285	5,843	2,636	171	220	521	517	4	16	37	2,242
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	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
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	5,973	4,039	462	426	368	51	627	6,748	4,576	543	495	374	356	18	39	84	637
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	5,617	4,296	546	232	146	27	370	6,553	4,882	631	334	174	156	18	38	73	421
Philosophy and religious studies	2,043	1,512	157	84	113	18	159	1,833	1,400	121	79	54	52	2	10	30	139
Physical sciences and science technologies	6,063	3,621	162	213	389	19	1,659	6,386	3,707	185	268	404	394	10	28	46	1,748
Precision production	10	8	1	0	0	0	1	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Psychology	23,752	16,500	3,248	2,018	995	151	840	25,051	17,066	3,425	2,255	979	928	51	151	292	883
Public administration and social services	35,729	21,810	6,869	3,395	1,588	292	1,775	38,634	22,912	7,344	3,696	1,654	1,561	93	340	618	2,070
Social sciences and history	20,222	12,941	1,638	1,158	1,025	130	3,330	21,084	13,469	1,404	1,362	1,020	997	23	108	301	3,420
Social sciences	16,368	9,664	1,508	958	933	104	3,201	17,081	10,096	1,278	1,129	935	915	20	84	252	3,307
History	3,854	3,277	130	200	92	26	129	4,003	3,373	126	233	85	82	3	24	49	113
Theology and religious vocations	12,824	9,048	1,733	426	645	50	922	13,191	9,088	1,817	507	648	618	30	60	83	988
Transportation and materials moving	1,074	863	74	69	35	10	23	1,390	1,105	92	85	41	39	2	8	18	41
Visual and performing arts	15,552	10,618	713	811	871	80	2,459	16,277	10,897	880	904	879	869	10	62	183	2,472
Other and not classified	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.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, Completions component. (This table was prepared June 2012.)