Digest of Education Statistics
2016 Tables and Figures All Years of Tables and Figures Most Recent Full Issue of the Digest


Table 324.25. Doctor's degrees conferred 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 177,587 110,157 12,621 10,665 19,118 18,791 327 861 2,966 21,199 178,547 108,912 13,278 11,257 19,193 18,879 314 884 3,671 21,352
Agriculture and natural resources 1,407 691 41 55 47 46 1 5 6 562 1,561 803 35 54 49 48 1 9 15 596
Architecture and related services 247 76 20 13 21 20 1 0 5 112 272 97 13 14 27 26 1 0 9 112
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies 336 151 53 28 31 30 1 7 12 54 312 153 45 29 17 15 2 11 9 48
Biological and biomedical sciences 8,302 4,493 299 376 721 707 14 18 119 2,276 8,053 4,266 243 442 745 736 9 26 122 2,209
Business 3,039 1,440 592 127 188 187 1 10 17 665 3,116 1,444 619 141 228 224 4 19 27 638
                                         
Communication, journalism, and related programs 611 381 32 35 16 16 0 3 5 139 644 399 43 23 24 24 0 1 8 146
Communications technologies 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Computer and information sciences 1,982 670 69 37 129 129 0 9 8 1,060 1,998 628 76 51 130 130 0 7 20 1,086
Construction trades 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Education 10,929 6,832 2,097 815 405 383 22 73 112 595 11,772 7,307 2,274 869 457 420 37 80 147 638
                                         
Engineering 10,010 3,132 180 265 705 696 9 14 81 5,633 10,239 3,226 176 303 714 713 1 14 91 5,715
Engineering technologies and engineering-related
      fields1
107 47 1 0 3 3 0 1 1 54 123 48 8 6 6 6 0 0 2 53
English language and literature/letters 1,393 1,092 48 56 49 48 1 9 17 122 1,418 1,111 41 60 59 59 0 5 25 117
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences 335 199 35 8 19 19 0 0 2 72 335 189 35 14 15 13 2 1 6 75
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 1,230 678 19 118 62 62 0 4 8 341 1,243 644 16 150 47 46 1 1 19 366
                                         
Health professions and related programs 67,447 44,234 4,031 3,571 12,020 11,870 150 297 1,167 2,127 71,003 46,238 4,375 3,948 12,344 12,186 158 275 1,441 2,382
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting 152 98 31 10 3 3 0 0 1 9 193 126 28 11 3 3 0 1 3 21
Legal professions and studies 44,169 30,985 3,303 3,910 3,360 3,256 104 313 1,105 1,193 40,329 27,325 3,373 3,865 2,893 2,826 67 333 1,407 1,133
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and
      humanities
90 72 5 1 4 4 0 1 2 5 96 63 9 8 6 6 0 0 2 8
Library science 52 30 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 15 44 30 4 0 3 3 0 0 0 7
                                         
Mathematics and statistics 1,863 776 30 39 87 86 1 1 14 916 1,801 740 22 38 90 88 2 1 8 902
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 769 439 83 26 44 44 0 2 11 164 840 459 96 39 39 38 1 6 16 185
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies 317 220 16 12 8 6 2 0 4 57 311 192 29 3 14 13 1 1 3 69
                                         
Philosophy and religious studies 698 489 43 28 24 24 0 6 8 100 762 537 50 30 39 39 0 6 9 91
Physical sciences and science technologies 5,806 2,730 137 174 280 277 3 19 57 2,409 5,823 2,845 131 186 298 292 6 16 61 2,286
Precision production 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Psychology 6,634 4,675 561 520 380 366 14 30 115 353 6,583 4,517 626 526 414 404 10 37 106 357
Public administration and social services 1,047 569 229 48 40 39 1 9 10 142 1,123 610 245 44 49 48 1 6 13 156
                                         
Social sciences and history 4,724 2,674 217 250 229 228 1 22 41 1,291 4,828 2,764 223 255 219 216 3 23 68 1,276
Social sciences 3,684 1,938 164 181 192 192 0 19 33 1,157 3,842 2,049 168 197 185 182 3 20 53 1,170
History 1,040 736 53 69 37 36 1 3 8 134 986 715 55 58 34 34 0 3 15 106
Theology and religious vocations 2,103 1,162 402 65 132 131 1 5 18 319 1,927 1,030 386 77 137 133 4 3 12 282
Transportation and materials moving 7 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Visual and performing arts 1,778 1,116 42 74 110 110 0 2 20 414 1,793 1,117 57 71 127 124 3 2 22 397
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.)

2016 Tables and Figures All Years of Tables and Figures Most Recent Full Issue of the Digest