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Table 321.30. Associate's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2014-15 and 2015-16
Field of study 2014-15 2015-16
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 1,014,341 590,616 137,920 180,598 51,767 48,375 3,392 9,996 25,505 17,939 1,008,314 566,705 134,004 196,047 53,756 50,501 3,255 9,491 28,937 19,374
Agriculture and natural resources 7,693 6,726 114 415 72 58 14 136 110 120 7,858 6,885 124 473 47 43 4 113 170 46
Architecture and related services 491 206 31 180 44 40 4 2 7 21 478 187 26 212 30 29 1 2 6 15
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies 382 98 34 90 24 10 14 87 45 4 419 101 42 106 29 10 19 83 45 13
Biological and biomedical sciences 4,883 2,145 428 1,438 584 557 27 65 132 91 5,266 2,270 451 1,601 618 605 13 57 155 114
Business 132,374 71,974 21,944 21,210 8,555 8,070 485 1,386 3,118 4,187 128,249 66,822 20,772 22,367 8,946 8,521 425 1,366 3,646 4,330
                                         
Communication, journalism, and related programs 6,034 2,860 636 1,765 338 324 14 40 228 167 6,759 2,914 702 2,142 469 447 22 29 292 211
Communications technologies 4,628 2,654 772 719 194 177 17 31 176 82 4,569 2,492 737 838 181 170 11 44 193 84
Computer and information sciences 36,420 21,807 6,029 4,707 2,146 2,030 116 316 861 554 30,569 18,482 4,161 3,862 2,169 2,080 89 294 928 673
Construction trades 4,643 3,405 533 376 151 123 28 77 88 13 4,699 3,319 500 479 185 165 20 70 135 11
Education 17,178 9,790 2,900 3,210 357 304 53 407 343 171 17,029 9,644 2,549 3,524 322 293 29 449 372 169
                                         
Engineering 4,875 2,909 333 825 439 422 17 36 104 229 5,285 2,966 424 994 483 465 18 29 151 238
Engineering technologies and engineering-related
      fields1
31,958 21,358 4,204 3,930 1,182 1,113 69 387 623 274 27,241 18,861 2,840 3,276 989 929 60 282 622 371
English language and literature/letters 2,324 1,086 197 745 148 143 5 22 92 34 2,551 1,087 160 941 184 174 10 17 113 49
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences 8,750 4,195 1,674 2,174 390 370 20 72 150 95 8,930 4,053 1,647 2,431 428 411 17 94 159 118
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 2,102 979 114 765 94 88 6 20 84 46 2,208 988 96 874 98 95 3 19 90 43
                                         
Health professions and related programs 200,018 130,702 28,114 25,037 9,227 8,579 648 1,827 3,945 1,166 191,460 122,155 27,440 25,482 9,088 8,437 651 1,736 4,449 1,110
Homeland security, law enforcement, and
      firefighting
43,041 22,826 7,153 10,539 1,022 878 144 384 962 155 39,927 20,331 6,375 10,623 1,036 907 129 338 1,031 193
Legal professions and studies 9,095 5,484 1,503 1,545 213 191 22 77 212 61 8,017 4,747 1,321 1,464 176 167 9 64 192 53
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and
      humanities
367,852 210,601 48,140 71,199 16,954 15,781 1,173 3,261 10,136 7,561 381,197 210,211 50,187 79,871 18,014 16,832 1,182 3,117 11,517 8,280
Library science 170 121 11 30 4 4 0 2 2 0 146 107 4 25 6 6 0 0 3 1
                                         
Mathematics and statistics 2,697 1,142 92 807 449 443 6 15 97 95 3,029 1,110 104 1,038 496 489 7 14 112 155
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians 19,984 13,584 1,778 3,027 692 588 104 261 493 149 20,578 13,780 1,816 3,262 714 606 108 262 537 207
Military technologies and applied sciences 1,229 772 174 178 53 40 13 15 37 0 1,047 648 158 134 45 40 5 14 48 0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies 29,139 14,826 2,440 6,854 3,295 3,194 101 179 999 546 30,484 14,627 2,438 8,058 3,471 3,350 121 180 1,120 590
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies 4,669 2,547 429 1,131 316 294 22 55 146 45 4,771 2,376 453 1,271 377 357 20 38 187 69
                                         
Philosophy and religious studies 697 448 92 82 19 16 3 3 19 34 814 554 90 106 17 15 2 2 22 23
Physical sciences and science technologies 7,568 3,644 698 1,548 936 909 27 82 247 413 8,485 3,948 853 1,930 984 946 38 73 293 404
Precision production 4,382 3,506 175 412 113 104 9 61 99 16 4,840 3,794 231 515 127 117 10 54 102 17
Psychology 8,780 3,358 722 3,505 607 584 23 129 344 115 10,603 3,691 855 4,665 778 736 42 130 382 102
Public administration and social services 8,436 4,181 2,303 1,441 144 121 23 131 188 48 7,988 3,690 2,373 1,325 151 143 8 142 244 63
                                         
Social sciences and history 17,916 7,141 1,646 6,201 1,711 1,604 107 222 671 324 20,056 7,306 1,668 7,694 1,901 1,794 107 190 862 435
Social sciences 16,631 6,463 1,578 5,792 1,653 1,550 103 207 618 320 18,451 6,513 1,615 7,098 1,822 1,718 104 169 806 428
History 1,285 678 68 409 58 54 4 15 53 4 1,605 793 53 596 79 76 3 21 56 7
Theology and religious vocations 1,135 659 282 136 17 14 3 15 16 10 1,089 680 265 84 12 8 4 11 24 13
Transportation and materials moving 1,810 1,152 130 277 90 80 10 13 73 75 1,497 928 105 225 75 69 6 11 63 90
Visual and performing arts 20,988 11,730 2,095 4,100 1,187 1,122 65 180 658 1,038 20,176 10,951 2,037 4,155 1,110 1,045 65 167 672 1,084
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 2015 and Fall 2016, Completions component. (This table was prepared August 2017.)

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