Table 323.50.

Master'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	439,084	285,123	56,965	29,574	23,678	22,873	805	2,539	4,106	37,099	452,038	286,679	60,172	32,415	24,626	23,616	1,010	2,377	6,268	39,501
Agriculture and natural resources	3,023	2,172	123	119	143	141	2	24	33	409	3,364	2,451	114	133	158	156	2	19	38	451
Architecture and related services	3,523	2,091	154	254	319	316	3	21	34	650	3,944	2,341	166	301	337	331	6	14	42	743
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,191	651	155	124	63	59	4	17	22	159	1,230	638	134	155	78	67	11	21	43	161
Biological and biomedical sciences	6,456	3,629	453	359	794	779	15	26	68	1,127	7,037	3,851	516	394	927	908	19	37	111	1,201
Business	85,763	44,520	16,945	5,598	6,702	6,474	228	476	730	10,792	88,318	43,941	17,800	6,198	7,056	6,800	256	455	1,113	11,755
Communication, journalism, and related programs	5,783	3,452	662	414	256	253	3	20	73	906	6,245	3,601	749	448	295	284	11	22	125	1,005
Communications technologies	202	75	22	12	14	14	0	2	0	77	186	68	17	13	9	9	0	1	1	77
Computer and information sciences	5,490	1,459	561	189	645	637	8	13	43	2,580	5,788	1,452	676	220	587	579	8	21	55	2,777
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Education	142,987	107,937	15,638	10,001	3,877	3,636	241	835	1,162	3,537	136,882	101,336	15,390	10,451	3,966	3,676	290	709	1,642	3,388
Engineering	8,629	2,783	335	369	1,179	1,176	3	14	59	3,890	9,133	2,973	343	445	1,046	1,037	9	24	124	4,178
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	1,187	501	141	52	123	123	0	4	10	356	1,265	494	148	84	100	99	1	12	19	408
English language and literature/letters	6,339	4,931	365	382	260	249	11	39	101	261	6,536	5,047	457	366	262	255	7	38	130	236
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,523	1,793	368	131	61	60	1	13	21	136	2,744	1,922	393	137	92	88	4	16	34	150
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,471	1,352	55	407	123	121	2	10	25	499	2,547	1,371	62	448	108	104	4	6	36	516
Health professions and related programs	61,538	43,433	7,165	3,616	4,351	4,234	117	381	426	2,166	68,268	47,678	8,158	4,099	4,854	4,662	192	386	785	2,308
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	4,017	2,294	1,127	367	117	104	13	31	29	52	4,455	2,487	1,216	435	126	115	11	34	70	87
Legal professions and studies	3,246	1,069	245	161	173	172	1	14	29	1,555	3,405	1,037	324	165	83	80	3	20	32	1,744
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	2,352	1,694	263	122	90	85	5	10	38	135	2,301	1,601	281	142	75	74	1	15	56	131
Library science	6,244	5,217	320	309	237	233	4	37	39	85	6,016	4,908	283	395	225	213	12	27	85	93
Mathematics and statistics	2,390	994	75	74	221	219	2	8	14	1,004	2,551	1,030	79	84	233	231	2	2	22	1,101
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	8	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	4,187	2,864	357	306	238	227	11	25	55	342	4,757	3,266	393	352	251	247	4	24	93	378
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	2,968	2,196	283	149	81	75	6	15	34	210	3,109	2,261	332	149	88	77	11	16	52	211
Philosophy and religious studies	667	484	66	26	26	26	0	6	11	48	750	503	100	45	37	36	1	3	13	49
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,479	1,415	89	102	180	174	6	7	20	666	2,611	1,485	106	101	136	133	3	14	43	726
Precision production	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Psychology	19,933	13,465	2,880	1,786	765	724	41	115	236	686	21,399	14,271	3,102	1,944	869	824	45	114	402	697
Public administration and social services	28,841	17,086	5,830	2,807	1,236	1,180	56	264	484	1,134	31,205	18,421	6,399	3,172	1,279	1,213	66	220	633	1,081
Social sciences and history	10,506	6,354	854	705	614	603	11	55	161	1,763	10,906	6,531	939	814	577	559	18	58	219	1,768
Social sciences	8,730	4,887	789	597	562	553	9	47	136	1,712	8,993	4,986	846	701	531	517	14	41	198	1,690
History	1,776	1,467	65	108	52	50	2	8	25	51	1,913	1,545	93	113	46	42	4	17	21	78
Theology and religious vocations	4,523	2,914	910	168	199	194	5	20	41	271	4,814	3,106	994	171	179	174	5	15	70	279
Transportation and materials moving	229	181	16	12	11	10	1	3	2	4	261	201	27	5	12	12	0	2	1	13
Visual and performing arts	9,395	6,116	508	453	580	575	5	34	106	1,598	10,000	6,400	474	548	580	572	8	32	178	1,788
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 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 2011 and Fall 2012, Completions component. (This table was prepared July 2013.)