Table 323.50.

Master'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	450,166	278,688	61,572	33,550	24,450	23,363	1,087	2,413	7,322	42,171	451,668	271,422	61,940	35,396	24,632	23,496	1,136	2,283	8,523	47,472
Agriculture and natural resources	3,424	2,397	138	151	145	136	9	29	64	500	3,578	2,522	130	182	126	123	3	12	63	543
Architecture and related services	3,834	2,195	149	297	292	290	2	9	80	812	3,926	1,975	173	340	318	313	5	14	89	1,017
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,230	602	124	145	87	83	4	22	43	207	1,201	531	129	169	83	77	6	21	45	223
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,517	4,020	609	425	1,015	1,005	10	22	184	1,242	7,888	4,199	596	493	1,050	1,039	11	31	184	1,335
Business	87,018	42,230	17,704	6,242	6,435	6,163	272	425	1,228	12,754	88,285	41,652	17,183	6,512	6,328	6,039	289	433	1,436	14,741
Communication, journalism, and related programs	6,076	3,407	717	477	280	271	9	17	139	1,039	6,540	3,421	834	549	271	267	4	21	189	1,255
Communications technologies	240	74	35	16	15	14	1	0	4	96	259	91	23	8	13	13	0	1	4	119
Computer and information sciences	6,243	1,586	797	197	600	595	5	16	86	2,961	7,048	1,790	763	227	728	715	13	25	95	3,420
Construction trades	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	126,836	92,737	14,671	10,164	3,799	3,503	296	740	1,699	3,026	118,652	84,719	14,119	10,261	3,717	3,420	297	628	1,836	3,372
Engineering	9,564	3,087	320	458	1,082	1,073	9	22	116	4,479	10,214	3,113	305	493	1,050	1,043	7	8	145	5,100
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	1,266	515	133	66	129	129	0	8	18	397	1,335	527	134	64	81	80	1	7	24	498
English language and literature/letters	6,542	5,045	381	389	231	225	6	39	181	276	6,179	4,731	373	434	210	199	11	23	180	228
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,821	1,858	438	177	112	108	4	12	55	169	2,699	1,758	393	183	96	88	8	14	63	192
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,473	1,279	46	446	115	112	3	10	33	544	2,260	1,186	57	372	93	84	9	9	51	492
Health professions and related programs	74,186	50,926	9,634	4,590	5,162	4,918	244	412	1,047	2,415	79,654	53,807	10,459	5,330	5,694	5,453	241	394	1,476	2,494
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	4,517	2,505	1,207	501	120	103	17	34	80	70	4,645	2,416	1,356	495	135	121	14	36	113	94
Legal professions and studies	3,684	1,009	330	179	128	121	7	16	54	1,968	4,088	1,042	375	222	150	147	3	23	45	2,231
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	1,962	1,311	283	162	59	58	1	17	53	77	1,793	1,185	257	136	49	45	4	14	35	117
Library science	5,688	4,675	242	353	195	189	6	32	119	72	4,779	3,865	216	292	196	184	12	30	107	73
Mathematics and statistics	2,779	1,039	71	100	230	229	1	2	29	1,308	3,017	1,073	77	88	234	233	1	1	26	1,518
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	15	9	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	4,954	3,154	441	393	274	268	6	39	109	544	5,014	3,095	485	352	244	231	13	21	158	659
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	3,101	2,257	345	152	72	67	5	4	65	206	3,271	2,316	396	205	81	76	5	17	81	175
Philosophy and religious studies	672	466	73	48	25	24	1	3	12	45	783	495	119	47	39	37	2	5	16	62
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,637	1,498	92	88	172	169	3	16	51	720	2,672	1,492	97	112	152	151	1	3	57	759
Precision production	5	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Psychology	22,072	14,439	3,115	2,202	933	879	54	142	452	789	22,235	14,507	3,195	2,255	909	848	61	136	499	734
Public administration and social services	32,727	18,582	6,980	3,515	1,322	1,248	74	215	751	1,362	33,657	18,816	7,026	3,892	1,264	1,193	71	244	887	1,528
Social sciences and history	10,780	6,133	989	814	550	537	13	50	256	1,988	10,725	5,972	997	847	502	488	14	49	301	2,057
Social sciences	8,976	4,671	923	697	511	500	11	35	216	1,923	8,972	4,599	906	721	465	453	12	34	251	1,996
History	1,804	1,462	66	117	39	37	2	15	40	65	1,753	1,373	91	126	37	35	2	15	50	61
Theology and religious vocations	4,791	3,027	1,038	203	211	202	9	16	68	228	4,883	3,039	1,095	215	214	202	12	20	75	225
Transportation and materials moving	251	167	21	29	12	8	4	7	5	10	223	145	25	21	6	6	0	4	10	12
Visual and performing arts	10,259	6,455	449	568	647	636	11	37	238	1,865	10,152	5,935	553	600	599	581	18	39	232	2,194
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. 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.)