Table 321.50.

Associate's degrees conferred to females by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2013-14 and 2014-15

Field of study	2013-14										2014-15
	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	613,681	362,670	88,753	103,448	28,544	26,472	2,072	6,656	13,726	9,884	617,358	354,114	90,505	111,263	29,380	27,445	1,935	6,403	15,508	10,185
Agriculture and natural resources	2,643	2,376	27	110	18	15	3	54	41	17	2,791	2,415	39	166	32	26	6	64	43	32
Architecture and related services	139	49	5	63	12	12	0	0	2	8	149	57	6	52	21	20	1	1	2	10
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	233	49	18	61	25	11	14	52	19	9	234	56	14	51	17	6	11	59	34	3
Biological and biomedical sciences	3,066	1,374	262	877	370	360	10	53	66	64	3,248	1,398	283	981	390	369	21	48	87	61
Business	81,539	45,634	13,991	11,952	4,697	4,371	326	1,008	1,760	2,497	81,823	44,507	14,317	12,667	5,002	4,723	279	921	1,908	2,501
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,752	1,341	289	750	169	160	9	9	89	105	3,458	1,548	344	1,078	193	183	10	21	145	129
Communications technologies	1,427	905	158	192	66	64	2	17	57	32	1,469	900	204	210	58	54	4	12	46	39
Computer and information sciences	7,694	4,336	1,591	903	410	389	21	105	200	149	7,619	4,161	1,606	904	449	421	28	97	224	178
Construction trades	252	139	27	23	21	19	2	12	28	2	288	165	43	38	20	14	6	8	12	2
Education	15,479	9,260	2,441	2,727	272	240	32	378	237	164	15,227	8,656	2,580	2,891	312	266	46	346	302	140
Engineering	570	284	40	115	69	67	2	9	20	33	672	344	35	133	89	87	2	8	17	46
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	3,888	2,470	543	478	192	181	11	68	91	46	4,072	2,404	665	561	192	180	12	75	110	65
English language and literature/letters	1,402	730	136	364	75	71	4	11	61	25	1,522	704	141	482	93	90	3	16	63	23
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,307	4,012	1,655	1,945	367	349	18	99	127	102	8,347	4,038	1,596	2,052	366	347	19	68	139	88
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,805	1,016	93	520	59	55	4	16	43	58	1,597	781	101	548	55	49	6	18	63	31
Health professions and related programs	175,239	117,547	24,296	20,690	7,107	6,578	529	1,675	2,934	990	168,177	111,325	24,064	20,347	6,708	6,241	467	1,560	3,244	929
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	20,393	9,350	4,830	5,102	344	286	58	223	459	85	19,163	8,480	4,465	5,177	313	253	60	210	446	72
Legal professions and studies	8,842	5,664	1,294	1,362	192	171	21	88	196	46	7,733	4,753	1,259	1,266	163	144	19	67	172	53
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	217,487	125,516	30,079	40,686	9,613	8,832	781	2,094	5,525	3,974	226,487	126,839	31,699	45,422	9,853	9,169	684	2,125	6,342	4,207
Library science	166	126	9	19	8	8	0	1	2	1	145	102	10	27	3	3	0	1	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	649	253	14	199	108	108	0	9	23	43	782	329	28	216	142	140	2	3	30	34
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	1,049	643	131	158	48	42	6	30	30	9	1,050	667	128	168	24	17	7	22	31	10
Military technologies and applied sciences	186	106	34	24	10	9	1	0	12	0	214	124	42	27	10	6	4	1	10	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	16,770	8,542	1,425	4,161	1,734	1,665	69	125	487	296	17,141	8,364	1,535	4,293	1,945	1,874	71	109	592	303
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	1,538	829	160	380	76	71	5	18	54	21	1,728	858	123	524	128	121	7	25	55	15
Philosophy and religious studies	152	56	58	23	11	8	3	0	3	1	358	260	44	23	5	4	1	1	7	18
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,828	1,383	377	489	335	324	11	31	76	137	3,071	1,406	353	596	425	409	16	38	109	144
Precision production	216	164	18	14	2	2	0	8	10	0	233	186	6	17	2	1	1	8	14	0
Psychology	5,794	2,492	479	2,128	337	323	14	94	196	68	6,689	2,583	574	2,672	410	395	15	107	258	85
Public administration and social services	7,638	3,937	2,149	1,184	86	71	15	97	137	48	7,183	3,641	1,896	1,231	105	87	18	117	151	42
Social sciences and history	10,356	4,143	945	3,612	936	877	59	163	381	176	11,242	4,285	1,069	4,089	1,062	992	70	136	421	180
Social sciences	9,936	3,910	930	3,488	922	865	57	158	354	174	10,743	4,028	1,041	3,934	1,044	977	67	127	391	178
History	420	233	15	124	14	12	2	5	27	2	499	257	28	155	18	15	3	9	30	2
Theology and religious vocations	488	317	115	37	1	1	0	8	5	5	582	330	159	67	8	5	3	9	6	3
Transportation and materials moving	333	169	31	69	18	16	2	4	16	26	287	149	31	50	13	12	1	2	15	27
Visual and performing arts	12,361	7,458	1,033	2,031	756	716	40	97	339	647	12,577	7,299	1,046	2,237	772	737	35	100	408	715
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 2014 and Fall 2015, Completions component. (This table was prepared September 2016.)