Table 321.40.

Associate's degrees conferred to males 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	396,782	236,381	47,393	69,291	22,377	20,924	1,453	3,590	9,997	7,753	392,152	226,202	44,776	74,532	23,429	22,006	1,423	3,336	11,255	8,622
Agriculture and natural resources	4,902	4,311	75	249	40	32	8	72	67	88	4,883	4,305	84	283	28	24	4	62	91	30
Architecture and related services	342	149	25	128	23	20	3	1	5	11	330	138	18	146	15	14	1	2	4	7
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	148	42	20	39	7	4	3	28	11	1	156	39	20	41	13	6	7	31	12	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	1,634	748	144	457	193	187	6	17	45	30	1,797	831	136	511	215	212	3	17	50	37
Business	50,548	27,467	7,625	8,543	3,552	3,347	205	465	1,210	1,686	49,591	25,761	7,233	9,073	3,831	3,665	166	431	1,410	1,852
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,576	1,312	292	687	145	141	4	19	83	38	2,794	1,323	288	808	200	187	13	18	104	53
Communications technologies	3,159	1,754	568	509	136	123	13	19	130	43	3,121	1,668	552	589	101	95	6	36	122	53
Computer and information sciences	28,797	17,645	4,423	3,801	1,696	1,608	88	219	637	376	24,135	14,946	2,997	3,114	1,669	1,602	67	200	723	486
Construction trades	4,355	3,240	490	338	131	109	22	69	76	11	4,446	3,186	453	447	160	142	18	65	124	11
Education	1,949	1,129	322	321	44	38	6	61	41	31	1,983	1,142	288	368	37	34	3	67	56	25
Engineering	4,203	2,565	298	692	350	335	15	28	87	183	4,511	2,604	361	834	389	375	14	24	126	173
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	27,886	18,954	3,539	3,369	990	933	57	312	513	209	23,545	16,605	2,331	2,793	818	770	48	232	489	277
English language and literature/letters	802	382	56	263	55	53	2	6	29	11	853	324	64	336	71	70	1	4	34	20
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	405	159	78	122	24	23	1	4	11	7	373	140	60	124	21	17	4	4	11	13
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	505	198	13	217	39	39	0	2	21	15	499	196	10	220	41	41	0	4	16	12
Health professions and related programs	31,820	19,376	4,044	4,676	2,519	2,338	181	267	701	237	30,606	18,228	3,808	4,784	2,492	2,298	194	255	782	257
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	23,877	14,345	2,689	5,362	709	625	84	173	516	83	22,359	13,055	2,426	5,402	710	634	76	152	523	91
Legal professions and studies	1,362	731	244	279	50	47	3	10	40	8	1,124	580	234	230	40	39	1	10	20	10
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	141,242	83,665	16,426	25,767	7,100	6,611	489	1,135	3,796	3,353	146,125	82,881	17,406	29,059	7,660	7,160	500	1,091	4,379	3,649
Library science	25	19	1	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	29	22	1	5	1	1	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	1,915	813	64	591	307	303	4	12	67	61	2,160	810	69	769	319	314	5	10	82	101
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	18,934	12,917	1,650	2,859	668	571	97	239	462	139	19,333	13,058	1,601	3,096	666	568	98	239	482	191
Military technologies and applied sciences	1,015	648	132	151	43	34	9	14	27	0	872	546	134	99	42	38	4	12	39	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	11,998	6,462	905	2,561	1,350	1,320	30	70	407	243	12,759	6,505	889	3,056	1,505	1,455	50	67	438	299
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	2,941	1,689	306	607	188	173	15	30	91	30	2,867	1,494	306	683	212	197	15	21	105	46
Philosophy and religious studies	339	188	48	59	14	12	2	2	12	16	384	226	47	75	12	11	1	1	12	11
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,497	2,238	345	952	511	500	11	44	138	269	5,106	2,483	445	1,180	539	520	19	35	169	255
Precision production	4,149	3,320	169	395	111	103	8	53	85	16	4,527	3,564	218	474	120	111	9	42	93	16
Psychology	2,062	768	147	819	192	186	6	21	85	30	2,591	858	198	1,126	250	239	11	30	107	22
Public administration and social services	1,254	540	408	210	39	34	5	14	37	6	1,109	492	353	174	30	29	1	18	32	10
Social sciences and history	6,655	2,845	576	2,106	649	612	37	86	249	144	7,389	2,917	536	2,589	768	719	49	66	305	208
Social sciences	5,869	2,424	536	1,852	609	573	36	80	226	142	6,434	2,437	508	2,235	717	669	48	57	277	203
History	786	421	40	254	40	39	1	6	23	2	955	480	28	354	51	50	1	9	28	5
Theology and religious vocations	552	328	123	69	9	9	0	6	10	7	512	323	122	33	7	4	3	7	14	6
Transportation and materials moving	1,523	1,003	99	227	77	68	9	11	58	48	1,292	827	94	176	59	53	6	10	54	72
Visual and performing arts	8,411	4,431	1,049	1,863	415	385	30	80	250	323	7,991	4,125	994	1,835	388	362	26	73	247	329
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.)