Table 321.50.

Associate's degrees conferred to females 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	617,559	354,235	90,527	111,307	29,390	27,451	1,939	6,406	15,508	10,186	616,162	340,503	89,228	121,515	30,327	28,495	1,832	6,155	17,682	10,752
Agriculture and natural resources	2,791	2,415	39	166	32	26	6	64	43	32	2,975	2,580	40	190	19	19	0	51	79	16
Architecture and related services	149	57	6	52	21	20	1	1	2	10	148	49	8	66	15	15	0	0	2	8
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	234	56	14	51	17	6	11	59	34	3	263	62	22	65	16	4	12	52	33	13
Biological and biomedical sciences	3,249	1,397	284	981	391	370	21	48	87	61	3,469	1,439	315	1,090	403	393	10	40	105	77
Business	81,826	44,507	14,319	12,667	5,003	4,723	280	921	1,908	2,501	78,658	41,061	13,539	13,294	5,115	4,856	259	935	2,236	2,478
Communication, journalism, and related programs	3,458	1,548	344	1,078	193	183	10	21	145	129	3,965	1,591	414	1,334	269	260	9	11	188	158
Communications technologies	1,469	900	204	210	58	54	4	12	46	39	1,448	824	185	249	80	75	5	8	71	31
Computer and information sciences	7,623	4,162	1,606	906	450	422	28	97	224	178	6,434	3,536	1,164	748	500	478	22	94	205	187
Construction trades	288	165	43	38	20	14	6	8	12	2	253	133	47	32	25	23	2	5	11	0
Education	15,229	8,661	2,578	2,889	313	266	47	346	302	140	15,046	8,502	2,261	3,156	285	259	26	382	316	144
Engineering	672	344	35	133	89	87	2	8	17	46	774	362	63	160	94	90	4	5	25	65
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	4,072	2,404	665	561	192	180	12	75	110	65	3,696	2,256	509	483	171	159	12	50	133	94
English language and literature/letters	1,522	704	141	482	93	90	3	16	63	23	1,698	763	96	605	113	104	9	13	79	29
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,345	4,036	1,596	2,052	366	347	19	68	139	88	8,557	3,913	1,587	2,307	407	394	13	90	148	105
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,597	781	101	548	55	49	6	18	63	31	1,709	792	86	654	57	54	3	15	74	31
Health professions and related programs	168,198	111,326	24,070	20,361	6,708	6,241	467	1,560	3,244	929	160,854	103,927	23,632	20,698	6,596	6,139	457	1,481	3,667	853
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	19,164	8,481	4,464	5,177	313	253	60	211	446	72	17,568	7,276	3,949	5,221	326	273	53	186	508	102
Legal professions and studies	7,733	4,753	1,259	1,266	163	144	19	67	172	53	6,893	4,167	1,087	1,234	136	128	8	54	172	43
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	226,610	126,936	31,714	45,432	9,854	9,170	684	2,126	6,340	4,208	235,072	127,330	32,781	50,812	10,354	9,672	682	2,026	7,138	4,631
Library science	145	102	10	27	3	3	0	1	2	0	117	85	3	20	5	5	0	0	3	1
Mathematics and statistics	782	329	28	216	142	140	2	3	30	34	869	300	35	269	177	175	2	4	30	54
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	1,050	667	128	168	24	17	7	22	31	10	1,245	722	215	166	48	38	10	23	55	16
Military technologies and applied sciences	214	124	42	27	10	6	4	1	10	0	175	102	24	35	3	2	1	2	9	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	17,141	8,364	1,535	4,293	1,945	1,874	71	109	592	303	17,725	8,122	1,549	5,002	1,966	1,895	71	113	682	291
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	1,728	858	123	524	128	121	7	25	55	15	1,904	882	147	588	165	160	5	17	82	23
Philosophy and religious studies	358	260	44	23	5	4	1	1	7	18	430	328	43	31	5	4	1	1	10	12
Physical sciences and science technologies	3,071	1,406	353	596	425	409	16	38	109	144	3,379	1,465	408	750	445	426	19	38	124	149
Precision production	233	186	6	17	2	1	1	8	14	0	313	230	13	41	7	6	1	12	9	1
Psychology	6,718	2,590	575	2,686	415	398	17	108	259	85	8,012	2,833	657	3,539	528	497	31	100	275	80
Public administration and social services	7,182	3,641	1,895	1,231	105	87	18	117	151	42	6,879	3,198	2,020	1,151	121	114	7	124	212	53
Social sciences and history	11,261	4,296	1,070	4,095	1,062	992	70	136	422	180	12,667	4,389	1,132	5,105	1,133	1,075	58	124	557	227
Social sciences	10,762	4,039	1,042	3,940	1,044	977	67	127	392	178	12,017	4,076	1,107	4,863	1,105	1,049	56	112	529	225
History	499	257	28	155	18	15	3	9	30	2	650	313	25	242	28	26	2	12	28	2
Theology and religious vocations	583	331	159	67	8	5	3	9	6	3	577	357	143	51	5	4	1	4	10	7
Transportation and materials moving	287	149	31	50	13	12	1	2	15	27	205	101	11	49	16	16	0	1	9	18
Visual and performing arts	12,577	7,299	1,046	2,237	772	737	35	100	408	715	12,185	6,826	1,043	2,320	722	683	39	94	425	755
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.)