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.)