Table 323.50.

Master'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	451,736	271,468	61,998	35,397	24,578	23,493	1,085	2,293	8,527	47,475	452,118	264,954	60,948	37,335	24,929	23,961	968	2,187	9,186	52,579
Agriculture and natural resources	3,578	2,522	130	182	126	123	3	12	63	543	3,522	2,421	122	182	132	124	8	28	81	556
Architecture and related services	3,926	1,975	173	340	318	313	5	14	89	1,017	3,859	1,812	180	334	283	280	3	8	99	1,143
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,213	531	129	169	83	77	6	31	46	224	1,181	555	112	161	85	81	4	25	44	199
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,891	4,202	596	493	1,050	1,039	11	31	184	1,335	8,401	4,360	663	545	1,081	1,073	8	20	202	1,530
Business	88,303	41,664	17,231	6,513	6,284	6,040	244	433	1,437	14,741	86,635	39,857	16,324	6,904	6,293	6,024	269	434	1,621	15,202
Communication, journalism, and related programs	6,544	3,425	834	549	271	267	4	21	189	1,255	6,765	3,502	855	518	275	270	5	22	182	1,411
Communications technologies	255	88	23	8	13	13	0	1	4	118	259	68	22	27	15	15	0	0	3	124
Computer and information sciences	7,042	1,787	763	224	728	715	13	25	95	3,420	9,582	1,949	785	279	855	840	15	15	123	5,576
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	118,681	84,741	14,129	10,263	3,710	3,417	293	628	1,838	3,372	112,581	79,420	13,071	10,624	3,529	3,300	229	580	1,998	3,359
Engineering	10,214	3,113	305	493	1,050	1,043	7	8	145	5,100	11,471	3,141	316	467	1,049	1,040	9	16	159	6,323
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	1,338	530	134	64	81	80	1	7	24	498	1,516	613	144	90	87	87	0	10	20	552
English language and literature/letters	6,179	4,731	373	434	210	199	11	23	180	228	5,876	4,384	377	422	216	212	4	33	184	260
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,664	1,729	393	183	93	85	8	14	61	191	2,719	1,703	435	213	127	119	8	24	42	175
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,260	1,186	57	372	93	84	9	9	51	492	2,325	1,132	44	406	84	84	0	2	46	611
Health professions and related programs	79,665	53,820	10,462	5,328	5,692	5,453	239	394	1,475	2,494	84,117	56,442	11,063	5,812	6,240	6,040	200	406	1,641	2,513
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	4,645	2,416	1,356	495	135	121	14	36	113	94	4,861	2,560	1,435	511	118	102	16	30	122	85
Legal professions and studies	4,087	1,042	375	222	149	146	3	23	45	2,231	4,236	982	423	185	147	142	5	32	40	2,427
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	1,793	1,185	257	136	49	45	4	14	35	117	1,795	1,165	229	156	52	50	2	13	55	125
Library science	4,780	3,866	216	292	196	184	12	30	107	73	4,234	3,349	233	329	131	126	5	24	105	63
Mathematics and statistics	3,017	1,073	77	88	234	233	1	1	26	1,518	3,081	988	67	81	224	223	1	4	36	1,681
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	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	27	19	5	0	2	2	0	0	0	1
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	5,055	3,128	485	352	248	235	13	21	161	660	4,953	2,965	476	382	268	258	10	24	121	717
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	3,271	2,316	396	205	81	76	5	17	81	175	3,310	2,381	382	177	83	69	14	20	96	171
Philosophy and religious studies	783	495	119	47	39	37	2	5	16	62	690	500	54	31	24	24	0	1	16	64
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,672	1,492	97	112	152	151	1	3	57	759	2,662	1,427	102	139	147	146	1	6	57	784
Precision production	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	22,197	14,481	3,187	2,253	907	846	61	136	499	734	21,235	13,641	3,028	2,323	836	774	62	112	528	767
Public administration and social services	33,674	18,825	7,031	3,894	1,265	1,194	71	244	887	1,528	34,896	19,412	7,286	4,330	1,272	1,212	60	219	899	1,478
Social sciences and history	10,733	5,976	997	850	502	488	14	49	301	2,058	10,215	5,540	972	862	482	472	10	39	285	2,035
Social sciences	8,980	4,603	906	724	465	453	12	34	251	1,997	8,572	4,240	897	752	448	440	8	26	233	1,976
History	1,753	1,373	91	126	37	35	2	15	50	61	1,643	1,300	75	110	34	32	2	13	52	59
Theology and religious vocations	4,883	3,039	1,095	215	214	202	12	20	75	225	4,834	2,911	1,129	229	216	211	5	14	84	251
Transportation and materials moving	223	145	25	21	6	6	0	4	10	12	166	103	13	16	8	7	1	1	5	20
Visual and performing arts	10,157	5,938	553	600	599	581	18	39	232	2,196	10,113	5,651	601	600	568	554	14	25	292	2,376
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.)