Table 323.30.

Master'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	730,635	462,903	80,706	46,787	43,728	42,381	1,347	3,948	6,700	85,863	754,229	469,639	85,315	51,264	45,400	43,773	1,627	3,674	9,780	89,157
Agriculture and natural resources	5,773	4,166	218	222	233	229	4	38	53	843	6,390	4,699	194	255	261	253	8	37	79	865
Architecture and related services	7,788	5,017	336	538	549	542	7	37	72	1,239	8,448	5,395	361	645	562	552	10	29	105	1,351
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,914	1,071	213	200	115	109	6	26	34	255	1,947	1,057	181	245	119	104	15	32	60	253
Biological and biomedical sciences	11,327	6,461	691	600	1,464	1,437	27	46	129	1,936	12,415	6,979	750	665	1,634	1,605	29	55	185	2,147
Business	187,213	105,520	26,712	11,680	15,378	14,906	472	921	1,618	25,384	191,571	105,268	28,086	12,865	16,196	15,667	529	882	2,222	26,052
Communication, journalism, and related programs	8,303	5,136	868	577	365	359	6	38	106	1,213	9,005	5,444	982	641	388	374	14	35	166	1,349
Communications technologies	502	214	46	23	27	27	0	2	0	190	491	211	35	36	19	19	0	5	2	183
Computer and information sciences	19,446	6,501	1,417	688	1,926	1,893	33	56	125	8,733	20,917	6,947	1,648	857	1,834	1,814	20	60	209	9,362
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Education	185,009	139,909	19,816	12,925	5,002	4,679	323	1,088	1,507	4,762	178,062	132,477	19,486	13,442	5,094	4,722	372	929	2,124	4,510
Engineering	38,719	14,807	1,139	1,547	4,102	4,081	21	73	298	16,753	40,323	15,980	1,185	1,735	3,961	3,926	35	82	392	16,988
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	4,515	2,190	372	220	373	372	1	29	46	1,285	4,769	2,313	372	286	328	318	10	32	51	1,387
English language and literature/letters	9,476	7,529	462	566	347	334	13	69	148	355	9,939	7,824	598	591	343	329	14	61	185	337
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,918	2,056	412	152	77	76	1	17	22	182	3,157	2,204	440	166	106	101	5	19	38	184
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,727	2,114	79	592	166	163	3	21	36	719	3,827	2,133	101	637	148	137	11	9	59	740
Health professions and related programs	75,579	52,288	8,452	4,547	5,823	5,689	134	481	545	3,443	83,893	57,582	9,684	5,105	6,500	6,255	245	464	988	3,570
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	7,433	4,664	1,715	640	197	176	21	56	50	111	8,402	5,184	1,853	824	204	185	19	72	106	159
Legal professions and studies	6,300	2,185	386	287	365	361	4	21	42	3,014	6,614	2,081	489	291	217	211	6	35	45	3,456
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	3,971	2,859	378	206	187	181	6	24	56	261	3,791	2,667	412	237	151	150	1	28	81	215
Library science	7,727	6,474	381	372	284	280	4	45	48	123	7,441	6,068	326	501	285	271	14	32	110	119
Mathematics and statistics	5,843	2,636	171	220	521	517	4	16	37	2,242	6,245	2,757	190	232	501	495	6	11	62	2,492
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
Military technologies and applied sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	29	23	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	1
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	6,748	4,576	543	495	374	356	18	39	84	637	7,745	5,305	603	561	407	395	12	42	133	694
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	6,553	4,882	631	334	174	156	18	38	73	421	7,047	5,208	749	347	166	151	15	34	116	427
Philosophy and religious studies	1,833	1,400	121	79	54	52	2	10	30	139	2,003	1,448	191	103	91	89	2	9	31	130
Physical sciences and science technologies	6,386	3,707	185	268	404	394	10	28	46	1,748	6,910	4,005	230	245	330	325	5	30	90	1,980
Precision production	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	10	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Psychology	25,051	17,066	3,425	2,255	979	928	51	151	292	883	26,834	18,063	3,726	2,378	1,146	1,084	62	139	495	887
Public administration and social services	38,634	22,912	7,344	3,696	1,654	1,561	93	340	618	2,070	41,680	24,700	7,986	4,183	1,743	1,657	86	298	797	1,973
Social sciences and history	21,084	13,469	1,404	1,362	1,020	997	23	108	301	3,420	21,889	13,750	1,488	1,541	1,053	1,025	28	105	402	3,550
Social sciences	17,081	10,096	1,278	1,129	935	915	20	84	252	3,307	17,734	10,311	1,341	1,287	973	950	23	77	340	3,405
History	4,003	3,373	126	233	85	82	3	24	49	113	4,155	3,439	147	254	80	75	5	28	62	145
Theology and religious vocations	13,191	9,088	1,817	507	648	618	30	60	83	988	13,396	9,119	2,007	480	635	612	23	41	139	975
Transportation and materials moving	1,390	1,105	92	85	41	39	2	8	18	41	1,702	1,340	124	114	66	61	5	9	8	41
Visual and performing arts	16,277	10,897	880	904	879	869	10	62	183	2,472	17,331	11,397	837	1,053	911	885	26	58	299	2,776
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.)