Table 324.25.

Doctor's degrees conferred 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	175,026	110,759	12,085	10,108	18,406	18,020	386	900	2,440	20,328	177,580	110,156	12,615	10,665	19,118	18,790	328	861	2,966	21,199
Agriculture and natural resources	1,411	707	45	53	39	38	1	4	7	556	1,407	691	41	55	47	46	1	5	6	562
Architecture and related services	247	97	13	10	30	29	1	0	7	90	247	76	20	13	21	20	1	0	5	112
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	291	148	43	30	21	21	0	11	2	36	336	151	53	28	31	30	1	7	12	54
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,939	4,248	323	409	735	728	7	27	69	2,128	8,302	4,493	299	376	721	707	14	18	119	2,276
Business	2,828	1,332	488	126	200	196	4	15	20	647	3,039	1,440	592	127	188	187	1	10	17	665
Communication, journalism, and related programs	612	372	45	22	25	25	0	4	7	137	611	381	32	35	16	16	0	3	5	139
Communications technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1,834	617	63	46	147	147	0	0	3	958	1,982	670	69	37	129	129	0	9	8	1,060
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	10,572	6,651	1,982	703	429	396	33	82	101	624	10,920	6,828	2,091	815	406	383	23	73	112	595
Engineering	9,356	2,911	191	213	644	636	8	7	63	5,327	10,010	3,132	180	265	705	696	9	14	81	5,633
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	111	41	4	4	7	7	0	1	0	54	107	47	1	0	3	3	0	1	1	54
English language and literature/letters	1,377	1,070	61	61	51	51	0	7	17	110	1,393	1,092	48	56	49	48	1	9	17	122
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	351	182	49	10	20	20	0	2	3	85	335	199	35	8	19	19	0	0	2	72
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,304	674	16	136	46	45	1	8	12	412	1,231	679	19	118	62	62	0	4	8	341
Health professions and related programs	64,192	42,846	3,736	3,355	11,015	10,868	147	292	863	2,085	67,448	44,236	4,031	3,571	12,019	11,869	150	297	1,167	2,127
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	147	100	19	2	4	4	0	0	0	22	152	98	31	10	3	3	0	0	1	9
Legal professions and studies	47,246	33,921	3,494	3,824	3,670	3,509	161	327	1,013	997	44,169	30,985	3,303	3,910	3,360	3,256	104	313	1,105	1,193
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	98	75	7	5	0	0	0	1	0	10	90	72	5	1	4	4	0	1	2	5
Library science	50	28	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	16	52	30	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	15
Mathematics and statistics	1,823	716	30	38	112	112	0	3	12	912	1,863	776	30	39	87	86	1	1	14	916
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	730	433	55	29	41	40	1	5	6	161	769	439	83	26	44	44	0	2	11	164
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	295	198	24	5	8	7	1	4	0	56	317	220	16	12	8	6	2	0	4	57
Philosophy and religious studies	794	546	28	29	35	34	1	0	17	139	698	489	43	28	24	24	0	6	8	100
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,514	2,716	120	154	265	265	0	13	48	2,198	5,806	2,730	137	174	280	277	3	19	57	2,409
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	6,326	4,566	497	436	350	342	8	44	83	350	6,634	4,675	561	520	380	366	14	30	115	353
Public administration and social services	979	538	168	36	53	51	2	1	8	175	1,047	569	229	48	40	39	1	9	10	142
Social sciences and history	4,610	2,665	204	234	213	208	5	25	44	1,225	4,724	2,674	217	250	229	228	1	22	41	1,291
Social sciences	3,607	1,933	159	170	181	177	4	14	39	1,111	3,684	1,938	164	181	192	192	0	19	33	1,157
History	1,003	732	45	64	32	31	1	11	5	114	1,040	736	53	69	37	36	1	3	8	134
Theology and religious vocations	2,174	1,261	335	56	122	118	4	15	13	372	2,103	1,162	402	65	132	131	1	5	18	319
Transportation and materials moving	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0
Visual and performing arts	1,814	1,099	40	82	123	122	1	2	22	446	1,778	1,116	42	74	110	110	0	2	20	414
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.)