Table 323.30.

Master'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	758,804	433,096	87,288	58,752	44,489	42,884	1,605	3,410	14,628	117,141	785,595	431,850	88,817	62,946	45,917	44,332	1,585	3,540	16,583	135,942
Agriculture and natural resources	6,426	4,497	219	302	209	198	11	44	144	1,011	6,681	4,631	228	355	200	197	3	31	136	1,100
Architecture and related services	8,006	4,185	334	734	493	483	10	19	181	2,060	7,986	3,906	335	722	479	471	8	12	168	2,364
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,847	932	170	240	103	98	5	40	72	290	1,766	822	160	271	84	80	4	44	61	324
Biological and biomedical sciences	14,655	7,919	966	936	1,988	1,967	21	43	365	2,438	15,714	8,423	1,072	1,176	2,075	2,062	13	28	437	2,503
Business	185,236	95,435	26,187	13,881	13,860	13,344	516	804	3,347	31,722	186,834	94,405	26,227	14,518	13,865	13,373	492	775	3,640	33,404
Communication, journalism, and related programs	9,581	5,138	1,103	752	355	343	12	32	242	1,959	9,676	5,061	1,243	809	336	320	16	31	257	1,939
Communications technologies	554	185	48	48	35	34	1	0	3	235	491	166	35	27	18	18	0	1	9	235
Computer and information sciences	31,475	8,008	2,124	1,092	2,458	2,415	43	59	382	17,352	40,128	8,017	2,208	1,192	2,909	2,869	40	66	428	25,308
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	146,581	103,647	16,789	13,756	4,616	4,291	325	783	2,579	4,411	145,781	101,764	16,286	14,680	4,705	4,395	310	861	2,990	4,495
Engineering	46,117	14,965	1,211	2,023	3,576	3,537	39	54	585	23,703	51,621	14,713	1,174	1,990	3,696	3,673	23	72	711	29,265
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	5,324	2,355	413	279	298	295	3	29	63	1,887	6,064	2,325	403	258	288	282	6	25	85	2,680
English language and literature/letters	8,928	6,788	506	657	285	278	7	49	273	370	8,577	6,440	497	655	262	256	6	46	301	376
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	3,148	1,971	505	241	151	143	8	25	46	209	3,228	1,964	516	324	111	107	4	18	70	225
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,566	1,811	76	585	121	121	0	6	80	887	3,405	1,647	87	539	140	135	5	15	86	891
Health professions and related programs	103,052	67,965	13,228	7,305	8,211	7,950	261	526	2,022	3,795	110,348	71,620	14,177	8,435	8,857	8,534	323	562	2,498	4,199
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	9,643	5,681	2,325	954	235	204	31	62	211	175	9,756	5,608	2,359	1,018	259	233	26	79	227	206
Legal professions and studies	7,924	2,005	621	364	247	238	9	58	70	4,559	8,178	2,087	558	430	243	234	9	51	71	4,738
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	2,794	1,862	333	236	75	72	3	18	79	191	2,599	1,736	290	235	51	46	5	20	83	184
Library science	5,259	4,146	275	432	169	163	6	28	125	84	4,926	3,850	238	391	161	155	6	20	184	82
Mathematics and statistics	7,589	2,784	200	281	536	532	4	8	100	3,680	8,446	2,813	197	294	570	566	4	9	100	4,463
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	71	54	9	3	2	2	0	0	0	3	152	102	23	5	6	6	0	0	4	12
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	8,100	4,879	751	657	439	419	20	39	186	1,149	8,571	5,079	854	669	532	506	26	36	199	1,202
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	7,654	5,455	936	431	188	167	21	43	210	391	8,244	5,785	1,046	556	152	141	11	42	197	466
Philosophy and religious studies	1,912	1,403	137	109	60	59	1	5	28	170	1,756	1,233	126	124	61	59	2	3	46	163
Physical sciences and science technologies	7,100	3,975	206	358	357	353	4	15	131	2,058	7,122	3,883	181	378	415	409	6	30	176	2,059
Precision production	4	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Psychology	26,772	17,353	3,610	2,928	1,092	1,019	73	140	655	994	27,645	17,583	3,790	3,179	1,109	1,045	64	152	744	1,088
Public administration and social services	45,948	25,610	9,003	5,605	1,758	1,670	88	293	1,165	2,514	46,751	25,468	9,325	5,982	1,776	1,667	109	296	1,336	2,568
Social sciences and history	20,533	11,797	1,544	1,608	891	867	24	74	522	4,097	19,828	11,132	1,466	1,626	852	830	22	71	503	4,178
Social sciences	16,830	8,808	1,402	1,356	820	801	19	49	428	3,967	16,373	8,394	1,313	1,352	788	774	14	58	409	4,059
History	3,703	2,989	142	252	71	66	5	25	94	130	3,455	2,738	153	274	64	56	8	13	94	119
Theology and religious vocations	14,278	9,308	2,273	711	733	705	28	42	220	991	14,352	9,049	2,476	770	743	721	22	71	243	1,000
Transportation and materials moving	971	657	82	67	35	33	2	10	48	72	911	612	72	49	39	38	1	6	44	89
Visual and performing arts	17,756	10,325	1,104	1,177	912	883	29	62	494	3,682	18,048	9,919	1,168	1,289	923	904	19	67	549	4,133
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.)