Table 322.30.

Bachelor's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2010-11 and 2011-12

Field of study	2010-11										2011-12
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/ Alaska Native	Two or more races	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								Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
All fields, total	1,715,913	1,182,405	173,017	154,063	121,066	116,794	4,272	11,933	20,804	52,625	1,791,046	1,211,565	185,518	169,646	126,147	121,521	4,626	11,483	27,181	59,506
Agriculture and natural resources	28,623	24,278	811	1,469	1,121	1,080	41	240	268	436	30,929	25,948	937	1,610	1,258	1,204	54	256	454	466
Architecture and related services	9,832	6,619	493	1,228	874	857	17	51	116	451	9,728	6,421	504	1,174	884	871	13	48	126	571
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	9,100	4,534	1,447	1,446	986	943	43	206	266	215	9,232	4,502	1,323	1,593	1,088	1,043	45	192	294	240
Biological and biomedical sciences	90,003	56,460	6,885	6,960	15,234	15,008	226	567	1,178	2,719	95,849	59,565	7,231	7,872	16,169	15,907	262	590	1,631	2,791
Business	365,093	238,786	42,572	32,394	27,510	26,583	927	2,269	3,541	18,021	366,815	232,695	44,246	34,349	28,054	26,970	1,084	2,142	4,348	20,981
Communication, journalism, and related programs	83,274	60,577	8,761	6,958	3,674	3,492	182	486	1,008	1,810	83,770	59,834	9,209	7,356	3,624	3,428	196	427	1,290	2,030
Communications technologies	4,858	3,360	519	494	264	257	7	27	69	125	4,982	3,248	545	563	268	258	10	26	119	213
Computer and information sciences	43,072	28,031	4,914	3,390	3,916	3,804	112	251	545	2,025	47,384	30,211	5,410	4,008	4,413	4,254	159	257	725	2,360
Construction trades	328	295	8	11	8	5	3	1	1	4	377	326	10	26	9	9	0	1	2	3
Education	103,992	85,234	7,115	6,585	2,290	1,843	447	856	787	1,125	105,785	86,084	7,641	6,966	2,150	1,954	196	768	1,051	1,125
Engineering	76,376	51,718	3,245	5,549	9,344	9,220	124	334	925	5,261	81,382	54,237	3,327	6,268	9,733	9,561	172	318	1,161	6,338
Engineering technologies and engineering-related    fields1	16,187	11,989	1,506	1,229	711	694	17	155	137	460	16,531	12,176	1,683	1,161	689	666	23	149	178	495
English language and literature/letters	52,744	40,147	3,942	4,507	2,473	2,367	106	332	786	557	53,767	40,160	4,138	4,982	2,511	2,410	101	319	1,111	546
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	22,444	16,065	2,623	1,837	1,171	1,132	39	196	238	314	23,428	16,471	2,932	2,015	1,202	1,166	36	164	311	333
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	21,706	14,821	922	3,684	1,321	1,297	24	128	384	446	21,764	14,612	944	3,975	1,261	1,235	26	99	442	431
Health professions and related programs	143,430	102,055	17,119	9,882	9,914	9,506	408	963	1,412	2,085	163,440	114,113	19,766	11,993	12,138	11,563	575	956	2,168	2,306
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	47,602	28,088	9,687	7,241	1,349	1,225	124	439	538	260	53,767	31,051	11,089	8,472	1,569	1,390	179	434	842	310
Legal professions and studies	4,429	2,769	787	547	219	211	8	26	53	28	4,592	2,785	821	586	232	223	9	29	71	68
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	46,727	31,056	6,853	4,911	1,680	1,552	128	532	632	1,063	46,925	31,138	6,764	5,029	1,737	1,605	132	521	821	915
Library science	96	85	3	3	3	3	0	0	2	0	95	89	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	17,182	11,836	840	1,158	1,858	1,822	36	85	216	1,189	18,842	12,737	976	1,308	1,876	1,837	39	59	247	1,639
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	226	158	13	18	14	13	1	4	1	18	250	171	12	17	12	12	0	5	1	32
Military technologies and applied sciences	64	43	16	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	86	51	25	6	0	0	0	1	1	2
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	42,228	28,286	4,375	5,254	2,656	2,557	99	352	516	789	45,716	30,096	5,054	5,951	2,639	2,532	107	357	707	912
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	35,924	26,998	3,548	2,763	1,363	1,246	117	284	394	574	38,993	29,174	3,750	3,178	1,498	1,387	111	267	523	603
Philosophy and religious studies	12,836	9,752	963	970	689	660	29	79	191	192	12,651	9,474	964	1,052	622	598	24	85	254	200
Physical sciences and science technologies	24,712	17,842	1,329	1,466	2,538	2,491	47	149	340	1,048	26,663	18,983	1,541	1,681	2,741	2,702	39	154	447	1,116
Precision production	43	29	0	4	5	5	0	0	0	5	37	30	2	1	2	2	0	0	2	0
Psychology	100,893	66,122	12,397	11,629	6,797	6,583	214	691	1,580	1,677	108,986	70,011	13,524	13,326	7,330	7,085	245	753	2,037	2,005
Public administration and social services	26,774	15,336	6,093	3,305	968	876	92	293	497	282	29,695	16,967	6,914	3,732	1,013	907	106	287	462	320
Social sciences and history	177,144	118,979	16,682	18,108	13,670	13,261	409	1,238	2,556	5,911	178,543	117,854	17,145	19,548	13,020	12,550	470	1,115	3,463	6,398
Social sciences	142,145	90,734	15,051	15,192	12,442	12,077	365	1,001	2,073	5,652	143,422	89,730	15,425	16,581	11,791	11,382	409	887	2,860	6,148
History	34,999	28,245	1,631	2,916	1,228	1,184	44	237	483	259	35,121	28,124	1,720	2,967	1,229	1,168	61	228	603	250
Theology and religious vocations	9,074	7,555	585	380	240	215	25	39	58	217	9,369	7,750	637	385	232	216	16	42	88	235
Transportation and materials moving	4,941	3,812	285	379	215	206	9	42	58	150	4,876	3,737	343	380	185	163	22	44	53	134
Visual and performing arts	93,956	68,690	5,679	8,302	5,991	5,780	211	616	1,510	3,168	95,797	68,864	6,109	9,080	5,987	5,812	175	618	1,751	3,388
Other and not classified	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: Data are for postsecondary institutions participating 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 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): "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 2011 and Fall 2012, Completions component. (This table was prepared July 2013.)