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Table 324.35. Doctor'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 89,946 56,563 7,775 5,635 10,216 10,011 205 500 1,355 7,902 91,993 56,779 8,106 5,877 10,848 10,673 175 496 1,669 8,218
Agriculture and natural resources 644 322 27 30 15 15 0 3 3 244 668 323 21 22 29 29 0 2 4 267
Architecture and related services 113 45 4 2 19 19 0 0 6 37 113 35 12 6 11 10 1 0 3 46
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies 166 82 21 19 15 15 0 7 2 20 206 88 39 15 17 17 0 6 7 34
Biological and biomedical sciences 4,250 2,219 206 232 433 428 5 17 43 1,100 4,418 2,342 195 199 420 410 10 14 60 1,188
Business 1,223 549 271 56 86 84 2 6 11 244 1,317 583 316 53 78 77 1 5 9 273
                                         
Communication, journalism, and related programs 366 208 31 17 20 20 0 1 4 85 345 195 21 26 13 13 0 1 3 86
Communications technologies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
Computer and information sciences 354 115 24 9 36 36 0 0 1 169 416 120 21 13 42 42 0 2 1 217
Construction trades 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Education 7,154 4,412 1,446 480 309 286 23 51 63 393 7,456 4,563 1,528 569 288 278 10 46 87 375
                                         
Engineering 2,125 629 65 69 209 208 1 0 15 1,138 2,271 680 70 72 235 233 2 2 19 1,193
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1 37 12 2 1 3 3 0 0 0 19 26 15 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10
English language and literature/letters 823 635 43 40 30 30 0 3 11 61 836 656 37 28 35 35 0 3 9 68
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences 272 136 41 8 17 17 0 2 3 65 273 154 33 7 18 18 0 0 2 59
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 773 375 9 91 35 35 0 6 5 252 733 380 12 77 48 48 0 2 6 208
                                         
Health professions and related programs 37,340 24,648 2,537 1,992 6,278 6,201 77 170 518 1,197 39,364 25,629 2,709 2,027 6,912 6,834 78 176 707 1,204
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting 75 48 13 2 3 3 0 0 0 9 86 63 16 3 1 1 0 0 1 2
Legal professions and studies 21,925 14,709 2,078 1,969 1,950 1,867 83 177 536 506 20,674 13,371 2,013 2,041 1,893 1,835 58 174 564 618
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities 56 40 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 61 48 3 1 3 3 0 1 2 3
Library science 27 18 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 38 22 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 10
                                         
Mathematics and statistics 531 187 7 7 37 37 0 1 3 289 538 196 10 8 34 34 0 1 4 285
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 423 255 38 17 27 26 1 3 5 78 447 263 46 17 29 29 0 1 6 85
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies 136 102 13 1 3 3 0 2 0 15 159 113 12 8 3 3 0 0 2 21
                                         
Philosophy and religious studies 244 161 12 8 15 15 0 0 6 42 237 166 11 7 10 10 0 4 4 35
Physical sciences and science technologies 1,868 902 61 61 117 117 0 2 17 708 1,933 901 62 53 122 120 2 8 22 765
Precision production 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Psychology 4,698 3,343 406 332 274 267 7 32 62 249 4,954 3,420 457 408 313 301 12 22 91 243
Public administration and social services 628 343 123 23 36 35 1 1 6 96 701 388 153 32 33 32 1 7 6 82
                                         
Social sciences and history 2,149 1,211 116 127 132 129 3 11 22 530 2,230 1,257 117 135 136 136 0 13 31 541
Social sciences 1,699 896 92 92 119 116 3 7 21 472 1,783 947 89 107 116 116 0 12 25 487
History 450 315 24 35 13 13 0 4 1 58 447 310 28 28 20 20 0 1 6 54
Theology and religious vocations 582 346 152 8 27 25 2 4 2 43 581 309 170 17 36 36 0 3 7 39
Transportation and materials moving 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Visual and performing arts 964 511 20 31 90 90 0 1 11 300 909 499 18 29 88 88 0 2 12 261
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.)

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