Table 318.50.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by control of institution, level of degree, and field of study: 2013-14

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	1,003,364	1,869,814	754,475	177,580	793,180	1,186,397	346,101	88,904	53,127	544,213	333,580	80,894	157,057	139,204	74,794	7,782
Agriculture and natural resources	7,051	35,116	6,544	1,407	6,741	29,125	5,121	1,342	310	5,263	1,296	65	0	728	127	0
Architecture and related services	414	9,144	8,048	247	404	6,407	4,744	181	10	2,650	3,215	66	0	87	89	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	362	8,275	1,824	336	346	5,407	1,045	201	16	2,868	779	135	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	4,479	104,633	13,960	8,302	4,376	71,453	8,219	5,486	102	33,052	5,741	2,816	1	128	0	0
Business	129,661	358,079	189,328	3,039	87,011	201,897	67,635	1,036	11,035	108,169	89,991	831	31,615	48,013	31,702	1,172
Communication, journalism, and related programs	4,935	87,604	9,347	611	4,631	61,552	3,871	495	119	24,713	5,147	116	185	1,339	329	0
Communications technologies	4,703	4,987	581	3	3,187	1,467	51	0	138	1,460	312	3	1,378	2,060	218	0
Computer and information sciences	37,601	55,367	24,532	1,982	21,430	29,282	12,274	1,362	1,577	12,957	9,945	522	14,594	13,128	2,313	98
Construction trades	4,831	268	0	0	3,915	267	0	0	174	0	0	0	742	1	0	0
Education	17,504	98,854	154,636	10,920	14,675	67,929	74,723	5,694	695	26,821	67,533	3,540	2,134	4,104	12,380	1,686
Engineering	4,269	92,162	42,372	10,010	4,155	71,914	27,805	7,388	22	19,985	14,400	2,622	92	263	167	0
Engineering technologies and engineering-       related fields2	31,768	16,221	4,954	107	22,824	12,138	2,709	72	1,150	1,711	1,875	35	7,794	2,372	370	0
English language and literature/letters	2,075	50,404	9,292	1,393	1,761	34,767	5,945	1,043	16	14,826	3,211	350	298	811	136	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,657	24,722	3,121	335	8,053	19,846	1,979	274	396	4,379	857	42	208	497	285	19
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,276	20,335	3,482	1,231	1,957	14,683	2,445	795	319	5,628	1,037	436	0	24	0	0
Health professions and related programs	208,660	198,770	97,403	67,448	130,449	110,329	41,937	33,967	18,182	62,446	41,985	32,057	60,029	25,995	13,481	1,424
Homeland security, law enforcement, and       firefighting	45,650	62,409	9,310	152	30,665	35,200	3,842	98	1,469	13,168	3,048	10	13,516	14,041	2,420	44
Legal professions and studies	10,496	4,513	7,655	44,169	6,223	2,291	2,039	15,274	602	1,393	5,398	26,969	3,671	829	218	1,926
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,       and humanities	353,438	45,260	3,002	90	340,430	31,514	1,317	40	9,850	13,418	1,632	34	3,158	328	53	16
Library science	192	127	5,839	52	192	96	4,856	47	0	0	983	5	0	31	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	2,140	20,980	7,273	1,863	2,128	14,367	4,918	1,345	9	6,607	2,355	518	3	6	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	20,052	318	0	0	13,143	203	0	0	2,106	115	0	0	4,803	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	1,084	185	29	0	1,047	60	25	0	1	73	4	0	36	52	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	28,164	48,348	8,075	769	25,097	31,986	4,074	568	440	10,883	3,313	201	2,627	5,479	688	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	4,348	46,042	7,609	317	2,760	34,333	5,316	303	356	11,118	2,076	14	1,232	591	217	0
Philosophy and religious studies	435	11,997	2,095	698	176	5,349	698	283	259	6,580	1,227	414	0	68	170	1
Physical sciences and science technologies	6,935	29,304	6,984	5,806	6,856	20,808	5,329	4,168	74	8,491	1,655	1,638	5	5	0	0
Precision production	3,903	37	15	0	3,434	6	0	0	138	31	15	0	331	0	0	0
Psychology	7,530	117,298	27,966	6,634	7,050	78,797	8,851	2,561	322	35,263	14,521	2,925	158	3,238	4,594	1,148
Public administration and social services	8,900	33,483	44,490	1,047	6,293	20,791	25,414	515	522	9,128	17,140	291	2,085	3,564	1,936	241
Social sciences and history	16,528	173,096	21,475	4,724	16,399	118,653	11,340	3,098	91	52,678	9,200	1,625	38	1,765	935	1
Social sciences	15,454	141,990	17,520	3,684	15,356	97,493	8,798	2,417	83	43,102	8,261	1,266	15	1,395	461	1
History	1,074	31,106	3,955	1,040	1,043	21,160	2,542	681	8	9,576	939	359	23	370	474	0
Theology and religious vocations	944	9,642	14,128	2,103	1	5	0	0	934	9,416	14,074	2,098	9	221	54	5
Transportation and materials moving	2,099	4,588	1,243	7	1,499	2,252	129	0	527	2,308	1,106	7	73	28	8	0
Visual and performing arts	21,280	97,246	17,863	1,778	13,872	51,223	7,450	1,268	1,166	36,615	8,509	509	6,242	9,408	1,904	1

1 Includes 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.

2 Excludes "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 2014, Completions component. (This table was prepared April 2016.)