Table 322.50.

Bachelor'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	1,068,245	682,989	123,147	122,113	71,818	68,881	2,937	6,613	27,285	34,280	1,082,265	679,928	123,440	130,990	72,883	70,125	2,758	6,145	31,966	36,913
Agriculture and natural resources	17,871	14,085	608	1,294	820	766	54	121	538	405	18,692	14,513	612	1,513	877	828	49	131	604	442
Architecture and related services	3,975	2,360	237	531	385	379	6	13	87	362	3,974	2,178	183	571	450	442	8	17	130	445
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	5,809	2,681	805	1,143	579	559	20	133	283	185	5,489	2,457	836	1,131	501	479	22	108	285	171
Biological and biomedical sciences	61,217	36,503	5,350	5,965	9,503	9,332	171	303	1,903	1,690	64,794	38,048	5,670	6,977	9,763	9,619	144	264	2,356	1,716
Business	169,664	97,933	22,920	19,366	13,110	12,515	595	1,112	3,447	11,776	172,489	98,864	22,562	20,536	13,215	12,704	511	996	3,955	12,361
Communication, journalism, and related programs	56,638	38,223	6,206	6,183	2,439	2,337	102	250	1,633	1,704	58,799	38,475	6,433	7,129	2,465	2,347	118	217	2,026	2,054
Communications technologies	1,572	963	208	145	125	119	6	7	62	62	1,768	1,083	198	185	130	123	7	11	93	68
Computer and information sciences	9,951	5,150	1,592	908	1,316	1,277	39	62	288	635	10,741	5,354	1,579	1,001	1,592	1,542	50	67	365	783
Construction trades	25	11	1	9	2	2	0	0	1	1	18	9	0	3	1	1	0	1	0	4
Education	78,481	62,449	5,901	5,942	1,720	1,550	170	597	1,211	661	73,150	57,400	5,583	5,896	1,648	1,507	141	534	1,402	687
Engineering	18,263	10,813	963	1,716	2,510	2,474	36	82	530	1,649	19,603	11,453	983	1,954	2,670	2,636	34	75	685	1,783
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	1,726	1,072	266	176	80	76	4	21	32	79	1,918	1,185	300	192	97	94	3	15	54	75
English language and literature/letters	34,633	24,695	2,979	3,734	1,511	1,459	52	167	1,121	426	31,794	22,482	2,643	3,576	1,273	1,222	51	153	1,244	423
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	21,680	14,526	2,627	2,416	1,137	1,075	62	164	499	311	21,572	14,061	2,735	2,596	1,111	1,078	33	140	596	333
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	14,066	8,773	661	3,029	799	776	23	44	451	309	13,426	8,052	676	2,989	806	791	15	47	521	335
Health professions and related programs	167,845	114,748	20,307	14,663	12,025	11,425	600	919	3,355	1,828	182,570	124,375	21,314	17,059	12,854	12,255	599	965	4,231	1,772
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	29,009	14,127	7,490	5,612	658	553	105	217	691	214	29,083	13,697	7,423	6,027	669	576	93	239	835	193
Legal professions and studies	3,057	1,708	561	452	147	142	5	38	84	67	3,072	1,751	569	489	114	106	8	25	90	34
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	28,786	18,105	4,245	3,833	1,027	948	79	270	834	472	27,511	17,295	3,966	3,657	1,021	956	65	247	822	503
Library science	113	96	10	4	0	0	0	1	2	0	83	66	7	4	1	0	1	1	4	0
Mathematics and statistics	9,017	5,558	521	786	864	849	15	27	218	1,043	9,391	5,513	518	879	964	948	16	26	260	1,231
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	21	13	0	4	2	2	0	1	0	1	25	16	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	2
Military technologies and applied sciences	24	8	8	4	2	1	1	0	2	0	51	37	8	3	0	0	0	0	1	2
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	32,266	19,908	3,977	4,723	1,905	1,822	83	231	852	670	31,626	19,052	3,784	5,021	1,848	1,770	78	195	1,012	714
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	21,330	15,526	1,952	1,992	889	825	64	160	515	296	23,058	16,306	2,175	2,335	1,010	951	59	140	774	318
Philosophy and religious studies	4,416	2,982	403	431	299	286	13	33	154	114	4,068	2,728	360	435	248	237	11	17	164	116
Physical sciences and science technologies	11,503	7,318	869	873	1,406	1,382	24	82	361	594	11,560	7,273	806	1,073	1,347	1,323	24	57	375	629
Precision production	16	11	0	1	2	2	0	1	0	1	15	6	2	2	4	4	0	0	0	1
Psychology	90,006	54,737	11,393	13,332	5,523	5,311	212	513	2,674	1,834	90,755	53,916	11,597	14,329	5,497	5,276	221	472	3,017	1,927
Public administration and social services	27,567	15,423	6,235	3,938	810	724	86	251	633	277	28,218	15,738	6,335	4,045	865	780	85	228	740	267
Social sciences and history	84,878	48,916	9,885	12,526	6,254	6,066	188	464	2,882	3,951	81,466	45,108	9,601	12,678	6,109	5,919	190	440	3,040	4,490
Social sciences	72,519	39,625	9,120	11,197	5,844	5,682	162	388	2,508	3,837	70,214	36,753	8,903	11,441	5,720	5,538	182	385	2,666	4,346
History	12,359	9,291	765	1,329	410	384	26	76	374	114	11,252	8,355	698	1,237	389	381	8	55	374	144
Theology and religious vocations	3,048	2,295	334	201	83	79	4	19	53	63	3,096	2,284	366	206	81	69	12	15	69	75
Transportation and materials moving	535	347	52	61	34	28	6	6	13	22	578	380	46	53	39	35	4	1	22	37
Visual and performing arts	59,237	40,926	3,581	6,120	3,852	3,740	112	304	1,876	2,578	57,812	38,773	3,568	6,443	3,613	3,507	106	300	2,193	2,922
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 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.)