Table 322.50.

Bachelor'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	1,082,276	679,653	123,513	131,217	72,836	70,079	2,757	6,141	31,970	36,946	1,098,939	674,539	124,600	142,068	75,061	72,446	2,615	5,914	36,422	40,335
Agriculture and natural resources	18,693	14,514	612	1,513	877	828	49	131	604	442	19,383	14,922	667	1,715	802	775	27	103	728	446
Architecture and related services	3,974	2,172	179	580	450	443	7	17	129	447	3,969	2,139	194	580	425	422	3	10	143	478
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	5,489	2,457	836	1,131	501	479	22	108	285	171	5,613	2,478	838	1,162	513	501	12	112	319	191
Biological and biomedical sciences	64,800	38,014	5,684	7,003	9,758	9,614	144	264	2,358	1,719	68,170	39,281	6,134	7,834	10,126	9,997	129	304	2,535	1,956
Business	172,453	98,803	22,555	20,573	13,200	12,689	511	996	3,953	12,373	175,382	99,154	21,815	21,974	13,709	13,203	506	1,006	4,848	12,876
Communication, journalism, and related programs	58,805	38,464	6,437	7,145	2,461	2,343	118	217	2,027	2,054	60,115	38,329	6,692	7,759	2,516	2,426	90	230	2,336	2,253
Communications technologies	1,768	1,083	198	185	130	123	7	11	93	68	1,725	1,046	202	185	114	110	4	9	85	84
Computer and information sciences	10,742	5,354	1,577	1,004	1,591	1,541	50	67	365	784	12,072	5,810	1,530	1,146	2,029	1,977	52	50	523	984
Construction trades	18	9	0	3	1	1	0	1	0	4	17	8	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	73,129	57,349	5,589	5,921	1,646	1,504	142	533	1,402	689	69,790	53,886	4,934	6,400	1,696	1,565	131	459	1,657	758
Engineering	19,603	11,452	981	1,954	2,669	2,635	34	75	686	1,786	22,334	12,772	1,066	2,286	3,114	3,076	38	65	913	2,118
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	1,918	1,185	300	192	97	94	3	15	54	75	2,003	1,211	284	221	111	105	6	21	62	93
English language and literature/letters	31,796	22,476	2,646	3,584	1,271	1,220	51	153	1,243	423	30,019	20,884	2,533	3,587	1,237	1,190	47	136	1,234	408
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	21,572	14,061	2,732	2,598	1,111	1,078	33	140	596	334	22,407	14,394	2,750	2,928	1,122	1,088	34	127	698	388
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	13,427	8,051	677	2,990	805	790	15	48	521	335	12,672	7,334	674	2,952	743	733	10	47	568	354
Health professions and related programs	182,570	124,339	21,339	17,074	12,846	12,247	599	964	4,232	1,776	192,635	129,050	22,531	19,960	13,417	12,841	576	905	4,893	1,879
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	29,083	13,688	7,426	6,029	670	577	93	239	837	194	28,559	13,386	7,123	6,013	679	564	115	223	907	228
Legal professions and studies	3,072	1,751	569	489	114	106	8	25	90	34	2,946	1,639	548	477	134	129	5	22	97	29
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	27,513	17,292	3,962	3,664	1,021	956	65	247	823	504	27,516	16,854	3,968	4,013	1,025	964	61	247	880	529
Library science	83	66	7	4	1	0	1	1	4	0	79	60	6	9	1	1	0	1	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	9,392	5,510	520	879	965	949	16	26	261	1,231	9,689	5,454	491	905	987	981	6	18	281	1,553
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	25	16	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	2	27	17	2	4	1	1	0	0	1	2
Military technologies and applied sciences	51	37	8	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	68	42	14	8	1	0	1	0	3	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	31,626	19,050	3,789	5,021	1,846	1,768	78	194	1,012	714	32,547	18,726	4,317	5,241	2,070	1,993	77	175	1,201	817
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	23,058	16,302	2,174	2,340	1,011	952	59	140	773	318	24,209	16,529	2,505	2,731	1,023	970	53	148	925	348
Philosophy and religious studies	4,067	2,728	360	434	248	237	11	17	164	116	3,785	2,441	381	435	240	227	13	18	166	104
Physical sciences and science technologies	11,562	7,274	806	1,074	1,346	1,322	24	58	374	630	11,811	7,438	794	1,074	1,322	1,299	23	61	448	674
Precision production	15	6	2	2	4	4	0	0	0	1	22	10	0	3	1	1	0	0	1	7
Psychology	90,770	53,895	11,604	14,360	5,496	5,275	221	471	3,017	1,927	91,161	52,288	11,761	15,556	5,497	5,288	209	512	3,360	2,187
Public administration and social services	28,218	15,717	6,351	4,052	864	779	85	227	739	268	28,407	15,368	6,400	4,425	842	758	84	215	876	281
Social sciences and history	81,487	45,108	9,611	12,698	6,101	5,912	189	439	3,039	4,491	79,930	42,616	9,371	13,601	5,783	5,609	174	422	3,322	4,815
Social sciences	70,235	36,757	8,912	11,459	5,712	5,531	181	384	2,664	4,347	69,620	35,117	8,722	12,355	5,435	5,280	155	373	2,929	4,689
History	11,252	8,351	699	1,239	389	381	8	55	375	144	10,310	7,499	649	1,246	348	329	19	49	393	126
Theology and religious vocations	3,097	2,285	366	206	81	69	12	15	69	75	3,055	2,205	400	233	78	74	4	15	68	56
Transportation and materials moving	584	382	47	53	40	36	4	1	24	37	553	368	51	46	18	16	2	3	24	43
Visual and performing arts	57,816	38,763	3,567	6,456	3,614	3,508	106	300	2,194	2,922	56,269	36,400	3,622	6,598	3,685	3,562	123	250	2,318	3,396
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.)