Table 322.30.

Bachelor'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	1,894,969	1,210,071	192,829	218,098	133,916	128,927	4,989	10,202	54,215	75,638	1,920,718	1,197,399	194,473	235,014	138,270	133,612	4,658	9,737	61,575	84,250
Agriculture and natural resources	36,278	29,237	1,082	2,548	1,413	1,320	93	252	990	756	37,005	29,483	1,107	2,922	1,320	1,267	53	215	1,168	790
Architecture and related services	9,090	5,305	442	1,385	851	835	16	45	275	787	8,823	4,998	469	1,318	787	772	15	30	273	948
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	7,783	3,557	1,135	1,492	757	712	45	174	418	250	7,840	3,471	1,154	1,601	713	686	27	188	428	285
Biological and biomedical sciences	109,904	65,550	8,299	11,588	17,201	16,912	289	439	3,928	2,899	113,749	66,556	8,790	12,871	17,562	17,324	238	474	4,256	3,240
Business	363,741	222,506	39,184	40,063	26,631	25,607	1,024	1,831	8,114	25,412	371,694	224,687	38,239	42,511	27,216	26,212	1,004	1,847	9,780	27,414
Communication, journalism, and related programs	90,658	59,831	10,262	10,736	3,640	3,451	189	338	2,931	2,920	92,554	59,364	10,813	11,598	3,747	3,590	157	341	3,453	3,238
Communications technologies	5,135	3,109	617	624	304	286	18	29	289	163	4,824	2,912	572	586	255	239	16	27	255	217
Computer and information sciences	59,586	35,510	6,161	5,594	6,964	6,777	187	301	1,682	3,374	64,405	37,037	6,004	6,221	8,614	8,410	204	243	2,202	4,084
Construction trades	247	186	4	43	5	5	0	2	3	4	225	168	5	39	4	4	0	0	6	3
Education	91,596	71,691	7,264	7,225	2,078	1,897	181	682	1,759	897	87,217	66,990	6,611	7,840	2,139	1,961	178	595	2,100	942
Engineering	97,852	61,915	3,926	9,078	11,249	11,102	147	316	2,779	8,589	106,850	65,852	4,276	10,523	12,386	12,221	165	315	3,402	10,096
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	16,611	11,334	1,626	1,516	735	687	48	151	358	891	16,548	11,244	1,519	1,498	806	778	28	122	353	1,006
English language and literature/letters	45,851	32,614	3,678	5,185	1,822	1,744	78	225	1,738	589	42,795	29,860	3,461	5,214	1,771	1,700	71	201	1,716	572
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	24,584	15,874	3,187	2,934	1,346	1,306	40	153	682	408	25,389	16,146	3,201	3,269	1,347	1,295	52	137	798	491
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	19,493	12,070	912	4,044	1,136	1,106	30	69	778	484	18,427	10,999	917	4,091	1,058	1,039	19	73	786	503
Health professions and related programs	216,228	145,444	24,943	20,655	16,559	15,772	787	1,138	5,078	2,411	228,896	151,181	26,468	24,109	17,491	16,737	754	1,075	5,943	2,629
Homeland security, law enforcement, and       firefighting	62,723	34,496	12,474	11,506	1,786	1,528	258	457	1,584	420	61,157	33,023	12,081	11,623	1,703	1,448	255	435	1,758	534
Legal professions and studies	4,420	2,601	736	674	178	165	13	37	125	69	4,243	2,398	720	672	213	207	6	28	148	64
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	43,649	27,822	6,483	5,271	1,576	1,463	113	395	1,251	851	43,661	27,128	6,549	5,745	1,567	1,457	110	389	1,407	876
Library science	99	79	10	4	1	0	1	1	4	0	85	65	7	9	1	1	0	1	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	21,854	13,064	1,015	1,940	2,329	2,296	33	71	609	2,826	22,777	13,033	995	2,150	2,440	2,416	24	52	684	3,423
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	395	280	31	29	14	14	0	2	14	25	386	256	30	27	17	17	0	6	14	36
Military technologies and applied sciences	276	201	34	27	3	2	1	2	4	5	358	270	41	25	5	3	2	4	12	1
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	47,556	29,100	5,640	6,990	2,847	2,714	133	317	1,521	1,141	48,794	28,558	6,352	7,427	3,106	2,990	116	282	1,750	1,319
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	49,008	34,188	5,084	5,032	2,164	2,014	150	277	1,479	784	50,918	34,119	5,845	5,755	2,312	2,196	116	264	1,779	844
Philosophy and religious studies	11,071	7,750	834	1,154	611	581	30	52	387	283	10,157	6,858	836	1,166	559	528	31	49	389	300
Physical sciences and science technologies	30,042	20,477	1,510	2,548	2,962	2,911	51	140	915	1,490	30,477	20,403	1,481	2,768	2,950	2,903	47	145	1,118	1,612
Precision production	48	31	2	3	7	7	0	1	0	4	50	35	0	3	3	3	0	0	1	8
Psychology	117,573	69,872	14,636	18,373	7,534	7,230	304	625	3,986	2,547	117,440	67,395	14,731	19,795	7,617	7,347	270	653	4,355	2,894
Public administration and social services	34,364	19,092	7,646	4,927	1,125	1,018	107	285	904	385	34,432	18,702	7,662	5,265	1,087	976	111	254	1,072	390
Social sciences and history	166,971	100,591	16,173	22,725	11,813	11,417	396	793	5,693	9,183	161,230	93,944	15,513	23,766	11,265	10,921	344	776	6,103	9,863
Social sciences	138,933	79,120	14,698	19,793	10,907	10,542	365	655	4,861	8,899	135,633	74,744	14,122	20,843	10,467	10,164	303	650	5,250	9,557
History	28,038	21,471	1,475	2,932	906	875	31	138	832	284	25,597	19,200	1,391	2,923	798	757	41	126	853	306
Theology and religious vocations	9,713	7,784	785	503	232	213	19	48	141	220	9,804	7,754	868	556	221	199	22	38	165	202
Transportation and materials moving	4,730	3,447	318	368	191	172	19	23	155	228	4,529	3,213	309	365	171	153	18	19	168	284
Visual and performing arts	95,840	63,463	6,696	11,314	5,852	5,663	189	531	3,641	4,343	92,979	59,297	6,847	11,686	5,817	5,612	205	459	3,731	5,142
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 postsecondary institutions participating 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.)