Table 318.50.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by control of institution, level of degree, and field of study: 2012-13

Field of study	All institutions				Public institutions				Private nonprofit institutions				Private for-profit institutions
	Associate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's degrees1	Associate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's degrees1	Associate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's degrees1	Associate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's degrees1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
All fields, total	1,006,961	1,840,164	751,751	175,038	772,588	1,163,620	346,813	86,427	55,617	535,736	326,984	81,539	178,756	140,808	77,954	7,072
Agriculture and natural resources	6,827	33,593	6,339	1,411	6,521	27,925	5,018	1,335	306	5,079	1,213	76	0	589	108	0
Architecture and related services	468	9,757	8,095	247	455	6,869	4,884	177	13	2,824	3,095	70	0	64	116	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	271	8,851	1,897	291	265	5,770	1,093	176	6	3,079	804	115	0	2	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	4,185	100,319	13,335	7,943	4,057	68,643	7,945	5,282	127	31,487	5,390	2,661	1	189	0	0
Business	133,966	360,823	188,625	2,836	84,433	200,213	66,574	1,049	11,562	108,870	87,499	833	37,971	51,740	34,552	954
Communication, journalism, and related programs	4,299	84,817	8,757	612	3,930	59,640	3,840	486	121	23,799	4,693	126	248	1,378	224	0
Communications technologies	5,026	4,989	577	0	3,277	1,390	69	0	126	1,420	291	0	1,623	2,179	217	0
Computer and information sciences	38,931	50,962	22,777	1,826	21,110	25,822	11,516	1,247	1,688	11,755	8,921	503	16,133	13,385	2,340	76
Construction trades	5,038	244	6	0	4,020	242	6	0	175	1	0	0	843	1	0	0
Education	18,719	104,647	164,624	10,572	15,395	71,502	80,411	5,709	683	29,074	69,933	3,319	2,641	4,071	14,280	1,544
Engineering	3,735	85,980	40,417	9,356	3,630	66,724	26,569	6,807	28	18,963	13,601	2,549	77	293	247	0
Engineering technologies and engineering-       related fields2	33,766	16,493	4,902	111	23,208	12,375	2,749	77	1,152	1,845	1,817	34	9,406	2,273	336	0
English language and literature/letters	2,085	52,424	9,755	1,373	1,679	36,548	6,189	1,063	5	15,447	3,368	310	401	429	198	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,994	23,934	3,253	351	8,338	19,601	1,957	270	466	3,926	963	64	190	407	333	17
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,130	21,673	3,708	1,304	1,784	15,573	2,594	856	346	6,082	1,114	448	0	18	0	0
Health professions and related programs	214,004	181,144	90,931	64,195	130,472	101,056	39,692	32,231	19,223	56,806	38,591	30,697	64,309	23,282	12,648	1,267
Homeland security, law enforcement, and       firefighting	48,425	60,269	8,868	147	30,467	33,701	3,499	98	1,667	12,413	2,971	10	16,291	14,155	2,398	39
Legal professions and studies	11,826	4,425	7,013	47,246	6,470	2,245	1,833	15,662	599	1,306	5,001	29,590	4,757	874	179	1,994
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,       and humanities	344,091	46,761	3,268	98	329,600	32,053	1,480	45	10,877	14,417	1,746	36	3,614	291	42	17
Library science	181	102	6,983	50	181	94	5,765	42	0	0	1,218	8	0	8	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	1,802	20,453	6,957	1,823	1,794	13,838	4,756	1,336	7	6,609	2,201	487	1	6	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	20,444	267	0	0	12,740	193	0	0	1,848	74	0	0	5,856	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	1,002	105	32	0	984	70	24	0	0	4	8	0	18	31	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	27,404	47,654	7,956	730	23,676	31,906	4,035	516	334	10,231	3,216	214	3,394	5,517	705	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	3,453	42,714	7,139	295	2,382	31,829	5,009	272	299	10,437	1,947	23	772	448	183	0
Philosophy and religious studies	326	12,793	1,931	796	141	5,702	701	313	185	6,887	1,132	481	0	204	98	2
Physical sciences and science technologies	6,376	28,050	7,011	5,514	6,305	19,652	5,322	3,949	68	8,394	1,689	1,565	3	4	0	0
Precision production	3,344	36	9	0	2,984	6	0	0	103	30	9	0	257	0	0	0
Psychology	6,119	114,450	27,846	6,323	5,641	76,834	8,830	2,517	374	34,108	14,770	2,792	104	3,508	4,246	1,014
Public administration and social services	8,781	31,950	43,590	979	6,055	19,721	25,105	551	474	8,923	16,317	291	2,252	3,306	2,168	137
Social sciences and history	15,669	177,778	20,784	4,619	15,523	121,823	11,347	3,091	120	53,623	9,437	1,528	26	2,332	0	0
Social sciences	14,750	143,587	17,483	3,616	14,640	98,342	8,725	2,435	106	43,292	8,347	1,181	4	1,953	411	0
History	919	34,191	4,102	1,003	883	23,481	2,622	656	14	10,331	1,090	347	22	379	390	0
Theology and religious vocations	881	9,385	14,276	2,175	3	1	0	0	857	9,295	14,215	2,167	21	89	61	8
Transportation and materials moving	2,087	4,526	1,420	1	1,544	2,024	102	0	469	2,411	1,258	1	74	91	60	0
Visual and performing arts	22,306	97,796	17,869	1,814	13,524	52,035	7,899	1,270	1,309	36,117	8,556	541	7,473	9,644	1,414	3

1Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level, as well as such degrees as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees that were formerly classified as first-professional degrees.

2Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," which are listed separately.

NOTE: Data are for degree-granting postsecondary institutions, which are institutions that grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. 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 2013, Completions component. (This table was prepared April 2015.)