Table 322.50.

Bachelor's degrees conferred to females 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	981,780	662,522	113,898	93,321	65,776	63,204	2,572	7,135	12,681	26,447	1,025,729	679,488	121,908	102,586	68,637	66,007	2,630	7,015	16,259	29,836
Agriculture and natural resources	13,948	11,573	417	811	647	627	20	121	150	229	15,476	12,659	520	895	746	714	32	140	260	256
Architecture and related services	4,136	2,638	198	502	481	473	8	24	57	236	4,161	2,624	224	495	440	431	9	21	57	300
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	6,299	3,125	998	1,034	681	653	28	120	198	143	6,475	3,108	944	1,137	773	747	26	132	214	167
Biological and biomedical sciences	53,111	32,779	4,874	4,183	8,577	8,443	134	325	707	1,666	56,304	34,294	5,074	4,756	9,190	9,035	155	366	974	1,650
Business	178,012	108,908	26,233	17,392	13,678	13,213	465	1,188	1,873	8,740	176,733	104,469	26,706	18,187	13,732	13,189	543	1,167	2,179	10,293
Communication, journalism, and related programs	53,759	38,641	5,748	4,642	2,462	2,348	114	330	697	1,239	53,849	37,927	5,998	4,885	2,450	2,321	129	290	884	1,415
Communications technologies	1,350	882	185	139	80	76	4	5	19	40	1,378	900	177	118	78	74	4	10	31	64
Computer and information sciences	7,594	4,124	1,503	628	794	778	16	41	110	394	8,611	4,530	1,654	747	987	943	44	57	148	488
Construction trades	25	22	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	18	13	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	1
Education	82,797	67,884	5,423	5,488	1,841	1,445	396	669	631	861	84,028	68,376	5,864	5,770	1,709	1,564	145	595	853	861
Engineering	14,257	8,738	844	1,158	2,130	2,103	27	84	238	1,065	15,553	9,446	898	1,324	2,242	2,202	40	72	266	1,305
Engineering technologies and engineering-related    fields1	1,718	1,060	271	153	111	110	1	26	22	75	1,684	1,035	324	153	68	66	2	18	28	58
English language and literature/letters	35,828	26,969	2,911	3,037	1,744	1,662	82	229	540	398	36,791	27,153	3,080	3,368	1,766	1,694	72	215	799	410
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	19,682	14,236	2,222	1,606	990	957	33	163	214	251	20,735	14,724	2,500	1,801	1,014	987	27	149	274	273
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	14,986	10,049	662	2,662	936	923	13	80	281	316	15,134	9,933	692	2,954	884	870	14	61	304	306
Health professions and related programs	121,894	87,586	14,758	8,232	7,675	7,344	331	803	1,210	1,630	138,572	97,724	17,062	9,892	9,477	9,029	448	828	1,814	1,775
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	23,241	11,820	6,197	4,006	541	485	56	225	313	139	26,027	12,820	7,106	4,605	613	536	77	256	468	159
Legal professions and studies	3,112	1,887	613	402	137	132	5	17	36	20	3,204	1,885	636	423	149	142	7	23	48	40
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	30,239	19,634	4,522	3,582	1,133	1,058	75	357	409	602	29,981	19,354	4,447	3,623	1,111	1,035	76	336	539	571
Library science	83	73	2	3	3	3	0	0	2	0	88	82	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	7,399	5,077	422	504	745	728	17	36	97	518	8,119	5,450	468	595	772	752	20	22	96	716
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	17	11	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	15	7	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	4
Military technologies and applied sciences	14	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	9	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	28,626	18,798	3,048	3,955	1,739	1,687	52	238	361	487	31,122	20,110	3,552	4,417	1,756	1,683	73	243	467	577
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	16,988	12,973	1,519	1,278	620	563	57	120	210	268	18,163	13,822	1,539	1,418	707	655	52	125	280	272
Philosophy and religious studies	4,687	3,435	464	323	290	279	11	33	76	66	4,688	3,356	481	388	250	246	4	35	100	78
Physical sciences and science technologies	9,930	6,712	739	615	1,211	1,190	21	62	145	446	10,691	7,058	920	719	1,260	1,243	17	69	205	460
Precision production	21	10	0	3	4	4	0	0	0	4	9	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Psychology	77,664	50,559	10,059	9,129	4,881	4,717	164	544	1,217	1,275	83,580	53,350	10,931	10,421	5,220	5,045	175	561	1,541	1,556
Public administration and social services	21,866	12,358	5,194	2,733	725	650	75	249	395	212	24,310	13,808	5,822	3,089	747	670	77	240	367	237
Social sciences and history	87,330	54,730	10,379	10,164	7,070	6,848	222	647	1,413	2,927	87,909	54,179	10,519	10,930	6,629	6,372	257	602	1,884	3,166
Social sciences	73,154	43,677	9,528	8,918	6,508	6,308	200	551	1,177	2,795	73,758	43,264	9,660	9,599	6,080	5,845	235	498	1,604	3,053
History	14,176	11,053	851	1,246	562	540	22	96	236	132	14,151	10,915	859	1,331	549	527	22	104	280	113
Theology and religious vocations	2,956	2,337	260	162	84	73	11	11	29	73	3,094	2,421	292	155	80	74	6	22	34	90
Transportation and materials moving	596	419	46	45	33	32	1	8	11	34	571	404	46	57	25	22	3	12	7	20
Visual and performing arts	57,615	42,467	3,180	4,744	3,732	3,599	133	380	1,020	2,092	58,639	42,451	3,420	5,257	3,761	3,665	96	346	1,136	2,268
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.)