Table 322.40.

Bachelor'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	812,693	530,418	69,316	86,881	61,080	58,848	2,232	4,061	22,245	38,692	821,779	522,860	69,873	92,946	63,209	61,166	2,043	3,823	25,153	43,915
Agriculture and natural resources	17,585	14,723	470	1,035	536	492	44	121	386	314	17,622	14,561	440	1,207	518	492	26	112	440	344
Architecture and related services	5,116	3,133	263	805	401	392	9	28	146	340	4,854	2,859	275	738	362	350	12	20	130	470
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	2,294	1,100	299	361	256	233	23	66	133	79	2,227	993	316	439	200	185	15	76	109	94
Biological and biomedical sciences	45,104	27,536	2,615	4,585	7,443	7,298	145	175	1,570	1,180	45,579	27,275	2,656	5,037	7,436	7,327	109	170	1,721	1,284
Business	191,288	123,703	16,629	19,490	13,431	12,918	513	835	4,161	13,039	196,312	125,533	16,424	20,537	13,507	13,009	498	841	4,932	14,538
Communication, journalism, and related programs	31,853	21,367	3,825	3,591	1,179	1,108	71	121	904	866	32,439	21,035	4,121	3,839	1,231	1,164	67	111	1,117	985
Communications technologies	3,367	2,026	419	439	174	163	11	18	196	95	3,099	1,866	370	401	141	129	12	18	170	133
Computer and information sciences	48,844	30,156	4,584	4,590	5,373	5,236	137	234	1,317	2,590	52,333	31,227	4,474	5,075	6,585	6,433	152	193	1,679	3,100
Construction trades	229	177	4	40	4	4	0	1	3	0	208	160	3	32	4	4	0	0	6	3
Education	18,467	14,342	1,675	1,304	432	393	39	149	357	208	17,427	13,104	1,677	1,440	443	396	47	136	443	184
Engineering	78,249	50,463	2,945	7,124	8,580	8,467	113	241	2,093	6,803	84,516	53,080	3,210	8,237	9,272	9,145	127	250	2,489	7,978
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	14,693	10,149	1,326	1,324	638	593	45	136	304	816	14,545	10,033	1,235	1,277	695	673	22	101	291	913
English language and literature/letters	14,055	10,138	1,032	1,601	551	524	27	72	495	166	12,776	8,976	928	1,627	534	510	24	65	482	164
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	3,012	1,813	455	336	235	228	7	13	86	74	2,982	1,752	451	341	225	207	18	10	100	103
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	6,066	4,019	235	1,054	331	316	15	21	257	149	5,755	3,665	243	1,139	315	306	9	26	218	149
Health professions and related programs	33,658	21,105	3,604	3,581	3,713	3,525	188	174	846	635	36,261	22,131	3,937	4,149	4,074	3,896	178	170	1,050	750
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	33,640	20,808	5,048	5,477	1,116	951	165	218	747	226	32,598	19,637	4,958	5,610	1,024	884	140	212	851	306
Legal professions and studies	1,348	850	167	185	64	59	5	12	35	35	1,297	759	172	195	79	78	1	6	51	35
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	16,136	10,530	2,521	1,607	555	507	48	148	428	347	16,145	10,274	2,581	1,732	542	493	49	142	527	347
Library science	16	13	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	12,462	7,554	495	1,061	1,364	1,347	17	45	348	1,595	13,088	7,579	504	1,245	1,453	1,435	18	34	403	1,870
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	370	264	29	26	14	14	0	1	13	23	359	239	28	23	16	16	0	6	13	34
Military technologies and applied sciences	225	164	26	24	3	2	1	2	3	3	290	228	27	17	4	3	1	4	9	1
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	15,930	10,050	1,851	1,969	1,001	946	55	123	509	427	16,247	9,832	2,035	2,186	1,036	997	39	107	549	502
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	25,950	17,886	2,910	2,692	1,153	1,062	91	137	706	466	26,709	17,590	3,340	3,024	1,289	1,226	63	116	854	496
Philosophy and religious studies	7,004	5,022	474	720	363	344	19	35	223	167	6,372	4,417	455	731	319	301	18	31	223	196
Physical sciences and science technologies	18,480	13,203	704	1,474	1,616	1,589	27	82	541	860	18,666	12,965	687	1,694	1,628	1,604	24	84	670	938
Precision production	33	25	0	1	3	3	0	1	0	3	28	25	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1
Psychology	26,803	15,977	3,032	4,013	2,038	1,955	83	154	969	620	26,279	15,107	2,970	4,239	2,120	2,059	61	141	995	707
Public administration and social services	6,146	3,375	1,295	875	261	239	22	58	165	117	6,025	3,334	1,262	840	245	218	27	39	196	109
Social sciences and history	85,484	55,483	6,562	10,027	5,712	5,505	207	354	2,654	4,692	81,300	51,328	6,142	10,165	5,482	5,312	170	354	2,781	5,048
Social sciences	68,698	42,363	5,786	8,334	5,195	5,011	184	271	2,197	4,552	66,013	39,627	5,400	8,488	5,032	4,884	148	277	2,321	4,868
History	16,786	13,120	776	1,693	517	494	23	83	457	140	15,287	11,701	742	1,677	450	428	22	77	460	180
Theology and religious vocations	6,616	5,499	419	297	151	144	7	33	72	145	6,749	5,549	468	323	143	125	18	23	97	146
Transportation and materials moving	4,146	3,065	271	315	151	136	15	22	131	191	3,976	2,845	258	319	153	137	16	16	144	241
Visual and performing arts	38,024	24,700	3,129	4,858	2,238	2,155	83	231	1,447	1,421	36,710	22,897	3,225	5,088	2,132	2,050	82	209	1,413	1,746
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.)