Table 318.50.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by control of institution, level of degree, and field of study: 2015-16

Field of study	All institutions				Public institutions				Private nonprofit institutions				Private for-profit institutions
	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de- grees1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
All fields, total	1,008,314	1,920,718	785,595	177,867	848,168	1,240,405	364,526	89,786	56,593	560,752	350,721	80,044	103,553	119,561	70,348	8,037
Agriculture and natural resources	7,858	37,005	6,681	1,508	7,491	30,826	5,292	1,418	366	5,408	1,269	90	1	771	120	0
Architecture and related services	478	8,823	7,986	236	448	6,135	4,860	178	30	2,602	3,029	58	0	86	97	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	419	7,840	1,766	316	401	5,235	1,009	197	18	2,605	757	119	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	5,266	113,749	15,714	7,914	5,160	78,064	9,061	5,216	95	35,495	6,653	2,698	11	190	0	0
Business	128,249	371,694	186,834	3,323	93,080	219,396	68,184	1,096	11,118	113,976	92,380	808	24,051	38,322	26,270	1,419
Communication, journalism, and related programs	6,759	92,554	9,676	629	6,554	66,728	3,995	533	111	24,924	5,375	96	94	902	306	0
Communications technologies	4,569	4,824	491	4	3,312	1,440	37	0	104	1,607	319	4	1,153	1,777	135	0
Computer and information sciences	30,569	64,405	40,128	1,979	23,242	38,951	22,417	1,278	1,733	16,544	15,214	603	5,594	8,910	2,497	98
Construction trades	4,699	225	0	0	3,876	225	0	0	172	0	0	0	651	0	0	0
Education	17,029	87,217	145,781	11,829	15,006	60,055	71,341	6,123	665	23,683	63,372	4,192	1,358	3,479	11,068	1,514
Engineering	5,285	106,850	51,621	10,209	5,168	83,463	34,514	7,405	26	23,223	16,980	2,804	91	164	127	0
Engineering technologies and engineering-     related fields2	27,241	16,548	6,064	133	23,423	13,110	3,494	97	1,137	1,809	2,132	36	2,681	1,629	438	0
English language and literature/letters	2,551	42,795	8,577	1,392	2,402	29,185	5,132	1,028	10	12,836	3,337	364	139	774	108	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,930	25,389	3,228	374	8,327	20,445	2,098	295	353	4,362	880	44	250	582	250	35
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,208	18,427	3,405	1,265	2,189	13,245	2,367	827	19	5,136	1,038	438	0	46	0	0
Health professions and related programs	191,460	228,896	110,348	73,682	126,617	126,288	44,733	36,482	20,020	71,960	48,921	35,051	44,823	30,648	16,694	2,149
Homeland security, law enforcement, and     firefighting	39,927	61,157	9,756	205	31,378	36,588	3,872	120	2,066	14,365	3,662	18	6,483	10,204	2,222	67
Legal professions and studies	8,017	4,243	8,178	37,030	5,433	2,223	2,150	13,330	696	1,380	5,851	22,552	1,888	640	177	1,148
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,     and humanities	381,197	43,661	2,599	105	369,141	30,648	1,231	46	10,325	12,741	1,314	34	1,731	272	54	25
Library science	146	85	4,926	54	146	54	4,095	50	0	1	831	4	0	30	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	3,029	22,777	8,446	1,850	3,013	15,431	5,370	1,344	16	7,333	3,076	506	0	13	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	20,578	386	0	0	14,232	208	0	0	2,332	175	0	0	4,014	3	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	1,047	358	152	0	1,008	133	37	0	0	181	115	0	39	44	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	30,484	48,794	8,571	849	28,690	33,036	4,377	581	575	11,694	3,678	268	1,219	4,064	516	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	4,771	50,918	8,244	331	3,746	37,667	5,500	290	269	12,588	2,542	38	756	663	202	3
Philosophy and religious studies	814	10,157	1,756	746	225	4,423	589	295	589	5,692	1,167	450	0	42	0	1
Physical sciences and science technologies	8,485	30,477	7,122	6,016	8,419	21,711	5,447	4,250	65	8,763	1,675	1,766	1	3	0	0
Precision production	4,840	50	10	0	4,363	0	0	0	147	50	10	0	330	0	0	0
Psychology	10,603	117,440	27,645	6,532	9,941	79,952	9,226	2,441	412	34,676	14,603	2,762	250	2,812	3,816	1,329
Public administration and social services	7,988	34,432	46,751	1,065	5,972	22,464	26,162	562	570	9,301	18,273	274	1,446	2,667	2,316	229
Social sciences and history	20,056	161,230	19,828	4,667	19,934	111,281	10,429	3,056	81	48,911	8,645	1,599	41	1,038	754	12
Social sciences	18,451	135,633	16,373	3,696	18,379	93,796	8,118	2,411	64	41,096	7,825	1,273	8	741	430	12
History	1,605	25,597	3,455	971	1,555	17,485	2,311	645	17	7,815	820	326	33	297	324	0
Theology and religious vocations	1,089	9,804	14,352	1,808	2	1	0	0	1,078	9,549	14,159	1,802	9	254	193	6
Transportation and materials moving	1,497	4,529	911	8	1,136	2,501	126	1	331	2,027	784	7	30	1	1	0
Visual and performing arts	20,176	92,979	18,048	1,808	14,693	49,293	7,381	1,247	1,064	35,155	8,680	559	4,419	8,531	1,987	2

1 Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level, as well as such degrees as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees that were formerly classified as first-professional degrees.

2 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. 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.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2016, Completions component. (This table was prepared March 2018.)