Table 321.50.

Associate's degrees conferred to females by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2012-13 and 2013-14

Field of study	2012-13										2013-14
	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	618,232	373,440	90,434	97,453	28,251	26,106	2,145	6,908	11,949	9,797	612,559	362,307	88,677	102,827	28,522	26,449	2,073	6,654	13,681	9,891
Agriculture and natural resources	2,520	2,251	23	126	24	19	5	49	31	16	2,641	2,374	27	110	18	15	3	54	41	17
Architecture and related services	163	60	6	63	18	18	0	1	2	13	135	47	5	61	12	12	0	0	2	8
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	170	37	18	36	12	6	6	51	10	6	232	49	18	60	25	11	14	52	19	9
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,848	1,294	255	753	353	340	13	55	64	74	3,014	1,352	258	852	370	360	10	53	62	67
Business	84,485	48,734	14,459	11,701	4,655	4,313	342	1,056	1,532	2,348	81,354	45,560	13,977	11,862	4,694	4,368	326	1,007	1,756	2,498
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,330	1,276	216	522	121	110	11	8	86	101	2,738	1,338	288	740	169	160	9	9	89	105
Communications technologies	1,537	1,008	166	172	73	66	7	20	61	37	1,425	904	158	191	66	64	2	17	57	32
Computer and information sciences	8,233	4,824	1,676	899	424	381	43	128	145	137	7,688	4,333	1,593	899	410	389	21	105	200	148
Construction trades	236	156	42	19	5	3	2	7	6	1	251	139	27	22	21	19	2	12	28	2
Education	16,551	10,029	2,719	2,739	288	255	33	396	208	172	15,392	9,233	2,438	2,671	272	240	32	378	236	164
Engineering	514	267	34	108	62	59	3	12	5	26	565	283	40	111	69	67	2	9	20	33
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	4,119	2,612	624	504	161	145	16	80	92	46	3,886	2,470	541	478	192	181	11	68	91	46
English language and literature/letters	1,408	707	144	381	97	88	9	11	40	28	1,397	727	135	363	75	71	4	11	61	25
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,620	4,395	1,669	1,830	416	385	31	103	107	100	8,295	4,010	1,655	1,935	367	349	18	100	126	102
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,696	1,057	79	428	51	46	5	13	29	39	1,798	1,014	93	515	59	55	4	16	43	58
Health professions and related programs	180,445	121,819	25,650	20,072	7,078	6,580	498	1,782	2,894	1,150	175,053	117,485	24,283	20,593	7,096	6,567	529	1,675	2,931	990
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	21,945	10,617	5,168	5,070	340	265	75	242	429	79	20,322	9,332	4,824	5,060	342	284	58	222	457	85
Legal professions and studies	10,172	6,381	1,605	1,596	226	204	22	140	175	49	8,836	5,660	1,294	1,360	192	171	21	88	196	46
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	211,557	124,836	29,077	37,858	9,333	8,595	738	2,069	4,591	3,793	217,142	125,421	30,051	40,482	9,608	8,827	781	2,093	5,508	3,979
Library science	152	110	6	21	11	11	0	1	3	0	164	125	9	18	8	8	0	1	2	1
Mathematics and statistics	559	238	28	155	97	97	0	5	14	22	648	252	14	199	108	108	0	9	23	43
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	1,041	687	110	147	33	29	4	28	27	9	1,041	636	131	158	48	42	6	30	29	9
Military technologies and applied sciences	229	137	43	32	9	9	0	1	7	0	186	106	34	24	10	9	1	0	12	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	16,543	8,707	1,447	3,718	1,843	1,780	63	139	378	311	16,768	8,540	1,425	4,161	1,734	1,665	69	125	487	296
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	1,297	729	138	280	66	60	6	20	38	26	1,521	824	158	370	76	71	5	18	54	21
Philosophy and religious studies	114	50	37	18	2	2	0	1	5	1	152	56	58	23	11	8	3	0	3	1
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,583	1,270	387	388	307	296	11	32	67	132	2,846	1,400	377	490	335	324	11	31	76	137
Precision production	229	173	14	23	5	3	2	8	5	1	217	165	18	14	2	2	0	8	10	0
Psychology	4,624	2,161	359	1,558	285	259	26	72	141	48	5,735	2,475	479	2,092	338	323	15	94	189	68
Public administration and social services	7,551	4,021	2,059	1,066	123	98	25	114	119	49	7,625	3,930	2,148	1,179	86	71	15	97	137	48
Social sciences and history	9,898	4,261	983	3,091	957	873	84	141	297	168	10,338	4,136	943	3,607	935	876	59	163	378	176
Social sciences	9,547	4,064	963	2,992	943	860	83	136	282	167	9,923	3,906	928	3,484	921	864	57	158	352	174
History	351	197	20	99	14	13	1	5	15	1	415	230	15	123	14	12	2	5	26	2
Theology and religious vocations	456	291	112	39	7	6	1	2	3	2	488	317	115	37	1	1	0	8	5	5
Transportation and materials moving	376	189	31	67	27	21	6	3	15	44	333	169	31	69	18	16	2	4	16	26
Visual and performing arts	13,031	8,056	1,050	1,973	742	684	58	118	323	769	12,333	7,445	1,032	2,021	755	715	40	97	337	646
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 degree-granting postsecondary institutions, which are institutions that grant associate's or higher degrees and participate 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. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2013 and Fall 2014, Completions component. (This table was prepared September 2015.)